A strong thun­der­storm brought gusty winds and heavy rain­fall to parts of South­west­ern Trinidad, just af­ter 1 pm Thurs­day this af­ter­noon.

Gusty winds top­pled trees, blew off roofs and caused pow­er out­ages in sev­er­al ar­eas of South­west­ern Penin­su­la.

Present­ly, the San Fran­cique Main Road is im­pass­able due to a large tree be­ing brought down, just be­fore the Build­ing Re­sources Lim­it­ed Hard­ware at Light Pole #65, San Fran­cique Main Road, Pe­nal.

T&TEC officials conducting repair work following a thunderstorm in parts of South Trinidad Thursday.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC), the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice are on-site as clear­ing ef­forts are un­der­way.

There were re­ports of roofs blown off small struc­tures and homes in Bar­rack­pore, Pe­nal and Dow Vil­lage, along the South­ern Main Road.

A roof was blown off a home at Beck­les Street, Pe­nal, with rain­fall dam­ag­ing sev­er­al ap­pli­ances and fur­ni­ture with­in the home.

Brief pow­er out­ages have been re­port­ed across San Fer­nan­do, Fyz­abad, Moru­ga, Palmiste, Debe, Pe­nal and Philip­pine.

A fallen tree along the San Francique Main Road in Penal.

The Met Of­fice has is­sued a third Ad­verse Weath­er Alert, to run from Wednes­day, Aug 14 at mid­day to mid­night Thurs­day.

The Yel­low-lev­el alert warns of oc­ca­sion­al show­ers and iso­lat­ed heavy show­ers/thun­der­storms in vary­ing lo­cal­i­ties over Trinidad.

The Met Of­fice says the pos­si­bil­i­ty of land­slides/land­slips re­mains, main­ly along hilly ar­eas.

Street and/or flash flood­ing and gusts up to 65km/h are like­ly near heavy down­pours.