ANDERSON — A storm that swept through Madison County Sunday evening, rattled windows and bathed the sky in pink and orange light, but left little damage in its wake.

“Just some power lines down, some limbs down in Elwood,” C.R. Brown of Madison County Emergency Management said of the storm that moved through around 8 p.m. “Maybe some shingles missing, but that’s about it.”

Strong winds swept around debris and toppled at least one piece of patio furniture during the short-lived storm. After a short period of rain, distant thunder and lightning could be observed, but the whole incident was over in 30 minutes or so.

It seems much of the storm’s wrath was concentrated in the northern part of the county. A representative of the Elwood Street Department said his power flickered on and off a few times, but there was no sustained outage. The damage was limited to some downed limbs littering yards and roadways.

Power was off on Anderson’s west side for several hours overnight, but no one from Anderson Municipal Light & Power was available to comment on the cause Monday.

Jim Zehrung, a resident of East Eighth Street in Anderson, had a close call when strong winds knocked down a tree in his backyard.

“It came down on top of my chain-link fence and ended up in the neighbor’s garden,” Zehrung said. “It was a good-size tree, probably rotten. But there was no house damage.”

The tree crossed over into the yard of Kathy Whitehead, Zehrung’s next-door neighbor and destroyed much of her garden.

“I planted green onions, tomatoes, potatoes, but once they get the tree out, it will all be ruined,” Whitehead said. But the tree managed to avoid hitting Whitehead’s house, Zehrung’s house or his shed.

“It could have been much worse,” Whitehead said.