Storms with high winds toppled trees onto roads and some houses early Sunday in the Birmingham area.

The storms also knocked out power to thousands in the area.

Alabama Power’s outage map at 8:30 a.m. today showed more than 400 outages, affecting more than 20,000 customers statewide from Gadsden to Mobile in its coverage area.

The area affected most was in the Birmingham area with 358 outages reported, affecting 19,045 customers. At that same time, the Tuscaloosa area reported 50 outages affecting 1,300 customers and Gadsden with 24 outages affecting 482 customers.