NATCHEZ — Strong wind gusts downed trees and temporarily left some without power, but the Miss-Lou weathered Wednesday’s storms with little serious damage.

The area was under a severe thunderstorm warning and a tornado watch for most of the morning, and Adams County Emergency Management Director Stan Owens said that winds of up to 46 miles per hour were recorded at the Natchez-Adams County Airport. Numerous trees were downed on Martin Luther King Jr., Kingston and Lower Woodville roads, but other than those arboreal fatalities, the county survived wet but intact.

“We kind of dodged a bullet,” Owens said.

An electrical transformer on Steamplant Road caught fire, but Owens said a falling limb was the likely the cause of the fire.

Concordia Parish Emergency Management Director Morris White said Wednesday’s storms didn’t produce significant damage, but that could easily change with more rainfall.

“Our ditches are already full, and if we get more rain (Wednesday night) we’re going to get into flooding conditions,” White said. “We got a lot of rainfall, but luckily no damage.”

In Franklin County, however, five homes were damaged and many trees and power lines were downed, according to a news release from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, only two Entergy customers in Adams County were without power. Entergy Customer Service Manager Tim Runnels said most outages in the Natchez and Adams County area were reported at approximately 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Runnels said compared to the surrounding counties, Adams County had relatively low outage reports, with no more than 100 residents without power at any given time. Runnels said nearly all residents’ power was restored by 3 p.m.

In Fayette, the entire town lost power for approximately 10 minutes because a tree fell on a main transmission line, Runnels said, and Runnels said he attributes Natchez’s low power outage numbers to the tree-trimming that Entergy has being doing in Natchez.

Owens said downtown Natchez received approximately 2 inches of rain, with other areas in the south of the county receiving slightly more.

Projected forecasts by the National Weather Service show a 30 percent chance of rain Thursday morning and afternoon with a 20 percent chance of rain in the evening.