Windstorm brings 101 mph gust to Mt. Rainier. Here’s where else it got windy.

A rather potent-for-September storm barreled into the Pacific Northwest Friday morning, knocking out power to thousands of people as the center of the storm sliced through the Puget Sound region.

The most eye-catching gust recorded so far is 101 mph that was clocked up at Mt. Rainier’s Camp Muir, which sits at just over 10,000 feet elevation. Triple-digit wind gusts aren’t unheard of during fall and winter storms up there, but I would say it’s a bit unusual to have a gust like that in late September.

But the storm even brought some impressive gusts to the lowlands as it came ashore along the southern Washington coast.

A trio of wind gauges at the mouth of the Columbia River recorded gusts of at least 70 mph. The Astoria-Megler Bridge that spans the Columbia River, carrying U.S. 101 from Oregon to Washington, recorded a peak gust of 71 mph 10 minutes after the bridge hit 70 mph.

Clatsop Spit, just to the west of the bridge on the Oregon side near Warrenton, and Cape Disappointment, just to the west on the Washington side, also each clocked a peak gust of 70 mph. Just up the Washington coast, Westport hit 57 mph.

Strong winds swept inland as the low center swirled across Southwestern Washington, and then cut across the I-5 corridor, running just north of Olympia and through Tacoma and Kent before heading off into the Cascades.

This radar loop shows the low center spinning right over the South Sound:

With the strongest winds typically relegated to the southern side of the low center, the storm effectively sliced the Seattle/Puget Sound area in half along about the I-90 corridor.

Olympia recorded a peak gust of 54 mph, Shelton reached 55 mph, Gig Harbor along the Tacoma Narrows Bridge hit 45 mph and Sea-Tac Airport — about the northern edge of the storm’s strongest wind influence — hit 38 mph.

Meanwhile , the North Sounders were like: What windstorm? No gauges north of the airport along the I-5/I-405 corridor recorded a gust higher than 30 mph, except one gauge hit 35 mph on the eastern hills southeast of Bellevue.

Still, with leafy trees and dead branches “un-pruned” from our warm and dry summer, power outages are easier to achieve at lower wind speeds, and that was the case Friday. PowerOutage.US reported over 60,000 customers were without power Friday afternoon in the South Sound — a vast majority with Puget Sound Energy.

Much calmer weather is in the offing as the storm pushed off to the east. The weekend is looking dry albeit now with a relative autumn chill as highs struggle to reach the low 60s and lows drop into the 40s.