A brief but windy storm Saturday evening brought down trees and power lines, knocking out electricity for more than 2,100 Flathead Electric Co-op members.

The storm, which dissipated quickly, blew through the area shortly after 7 p.m., bringing gusts of 50 miles per hour at Glacier Park International Airport, 40 miles per hour in northwest Kalispell and 53 miles per hour at Sheepherder Hill.

Those gusts were responsible for trees and power lines down throughout Kalispell and the Flathead Valley. In the two hours following the storm, emergency responders were called to approximately 20 reports of trees down on power lines and homes, power lines down across roads and other similar situations.

According to Flathead Electric Co-op’s outage viewer, 2,115 members were without power at the height of the outage.

Crews were able to start bringing members back online around 9:45 p.m. Roughly half had been restored by 10:15 p.m.

Despite its damaging winds, the storm dropped only trace amounts of rain.

“Our temperatures were generally in the lower 90s before the thunderstorms kind of went through, and so it was really warm and fairly dry, and it just was able to bring some gusty winds,” National Weather Service representative David Noble said.

Noble said the storm was fairly typical for this time of year and for the conditions.

Today’s weather again brings the chance of thunderstorms and showers in the afternoon, but at just 20 percent. Temperatures are forecast to rise to the low or mid-90s.

Representatives from Flathead Electric Co-op were unavailable for comment as of press time.