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PHOTOS: Viewers send images of damage as powerful storms move through

Multiple Tri-state counties have been under tornado warnings as a line of storms tracked across the WCPO 9 viewing area
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CINCINNATI — Pictures and video of storm damage are beginning to come in after powerful storms prompted a series of tornado warnings across Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana Tuesday afternoon.

If you have storm damage and can safely take a photo, please email it to us at newsdesk@wcpo.com.

WATCH: The WCPO 9 team tracks storm damage across the area:

Severe storms leave trail of damage across Tri-State

Ron Houck sent this image of downed trees at Kincaid and Section streets in Amberley:

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He said power was out in the immediate area.

Strong winds shattered a window on the eighth floor of the 8451 office on Fifth Street in downtown Cincinnati.

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An eighth floor window shattered in downtown Cincinnati during Tuesday's storms.

Tuesday's storms have been blamed for more than 160,000 power outages across the area. As of 4:35 p.m., the Duke Energy outage map for Ohio and Kentucky shows 163,329 people total without power in the area.

A viewer on Glenway Avenue in the Price Hill neighborhood captured electric wires sparking as storms moved through.

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Heavy winds caused wires to spark Tuesday over Glenway Avenue in Price Hill.

Strong winds toppled a tree on Gilbert Avenue right across the street from WCPO 9 studios:

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Earlier, an ODOT camera captured a downed tree on I-71 at Robertson Avenue that appeared to have caused a crash, blocking multiple lanes of the roadway with debris.

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