SALEM (WKBN) — The National Weather Service has confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down in Salem last night.

Residents across Columbiana County are left picking up the pieces of last night’s severe weather.

Kleis Equipment mechanic Dan Recker recalls his morning when he realized a tornado barreled through.

“I got some sleep, came to work, and half the building’s up against the trees in the woods,” Recker said.

A confirmed EF-1 tornado touched down in Salem, meaning wind speeds were between 86 and 110 miles per hour.

Alicia Miller, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, says the most concentrated damage across the Valley is in Salem.

“Trees snapped, some uprooted. There was a roof lifted off of a business. A lot of the insulation was blown and was kind of into the trees over the property, downwind from it,” Miller said.

Residents saw uprooted trees, flipped trampolines and debris scattered across the area. Kleis Equipment was left with sheets of metal thrown across their property.

“We were just worried about getting the neighbors cleaned up, so we did that first thing this morning, took care of them first. The wind is picking up and blowing from that way where we already cleaned, so we’re just trying to get everything we can before it all blows away again,” Recker said.

The National Weather Service was surveying another possible tornado, confirming a second EF-1 tornado just over the state line in Columbiana County.

In the meantime, they say the best thing residents can do when it comes to severe weather is stay alert.

“It sounds like the folks here did get our warning and were able to act on it. So make sure you have a way to get our warnings to your phones, TV, weather radio is still an option, and take action to those warnings,” Miller said.