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GREENSBORO — The storms that moved through Greensboro early Monday evening at one time left more than 20,000 residential and business customers in the city’s northwest area without power, the city's fire marshal said.

But most of the power had been restored as of early Tuesday. Only 136 power outages were reported in Guilford County as of 8:29 a.m.

Duke Energy spokesman Jason Walls said crews had tried to restore power to most homes by midnight, but some will not have any until the morning.

A Duke Energy spokesperson said a tree fell into a major power substation and that power had been lost in the area of Battleground Avenue, Lawndale Drive and New Garden Road, according to the Greensboro Fire Department.

Duke Energy crews had been trying to clear the area and restore power.

The fire department had not responded to any storm-related fires, and there have been no weather-associated injuries or fatalities, said Assistant Fire Chief David Douglas on Monday.

The storms moved through Forsyth County shortly before 5 p.m., knocking a large oak tree down on an old, unoccupied house at 8570 Concord Church Road in Lewisville.

The tree fell near the intersections of Concord Church Road and Dull Road and Brook Forest Drive. The Brook Forest subdivision is nearby.

Richard Henning, a co-owner of the house, was working in his yard at his house on Brookside Drive about 2 miles away when the storm arrived. He said he moved away in 1960 from the house damaged yesterday. One of his two sisters often lives in the two-story house, which was built in the 1890s, but she was not there yesterday.

The tree broke through the ceiling and damaged an upstairs bedroom, Henning said. It also damaged the porch.

''God, it is a heck of a mess," Henning said.

The Winston-Salem Journal contributed to this report.