High winds and thunderstorms Thursday night and early this morning downed trees, caused power outages and were blamed for several car accidents throughout Warren County, including one that injured a child, officials said.

Storms moved through the county just before 8 p.m., with wind gusts up to 46 miles per hour, said Christopher Bannan, meteorologist with the weather service in Jackson.

The city water plant at Vicksburg port recorded a half-inch of rain.

About 1,600 Entergy customers in Warren and Claiborne counties lost power beginning around 8:30 p.m., said Don Arnold, spokesman for the power company, and most of that power was restored by 1 a.m. Entergy was still working late this morning to fix about 25 outages scattered throughout the county.

Twelve downed trees were reported, mostly around the Interstate 20 and Clay Street area, said County Emergency Management Director L.W. &#8220Bump” Callaway.

&#8220I did get a report of a very small amount of pea-sized hail around the Culkin Community,” he said. &#8220As far as I know, we didn’t get any other hail.”

About five of the fallen trees were blocking roads and had to be cleared by county road crews, said Sheriff Martin Pace. Two downed limbs also caused unrelated but near-simultaneous accidents on Mississippi 27 and Jeff Davis Road, he said.

Paula Marie King, 34, 6288 Mississippi 27 South, was southbound in a 1996 Plymouth Breeze with two children, Kiara Blaylock, 10, and Johnny Curry, 6, at about 8:18 p.m., when a tree fell on the moving car, said highway patrolman Jake Coffee. Kiara was taken to River Region Medical Center, where she was treated and released, said hospital spokesman Diane Gawronski. King and Johnny were not injured.

One minute later, dispatchers received a call for a wreck on Jeff Davis Road, about a quarter mile east of U.S. 61, where a westbound pickup hit a large limb that had fallen into the road, Pace said. No injuries were reported.

The National Weather Service forecast for today is mostly cloudy with highs in the mid-70s. More rain and thunderstorms were expected Saturday, with a 40 percent chance of rain on Sunday.