Wednesday afternoon’s thunderstorms left a trail of power outages through central Maine.

The most severe outage was in the Livermore Falls area at 3:30 p.m. said Kevin Howes, Central Maine Power’s communications center supervisor. A fallen tree knocked out power to about 2,000 homes until 5:50 p.m., he said.

“That was just one outage,” he said. “There were several more, much smaller, that affected customers in most of our service area.”

The National Weather Service did issue severe weather watches around the state Wednesday, but meteorologist John Jensenius said the most severe parts of the storm were reserved for Oxford County and the Concord, N.H., area.

“We’ve had several reports of downed power lines and trees in New Hampshire,” he said. “We’ve been monitoring those storms very carefully tonight.”

By Wednesday night, those New Hampshire storms had weakened and Jensenius said the weather service did not expect them to continue in Maine. The Maine storms didn’t appear to cause much damage, he said.

Outages were reported in the Lewiston, Brunswick and Bridgton service areas, according to Howes.

“The storm cells just went through the area, and you know just what happens when they do,” Howes said. “It was a combination of wind and falling trees. You don’t always know what it is.”

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