“I went back to my house, got my charcoal grill and set it up outside,” he said. “People were happy to eat whatever I had.”

The storm hit the Washington, D.C. region in the afternoon on June 4, leaving residents dealing with power outages, crushed cars and debris. The National Weather Service received multiple reports of tornadoes, according to spokesman Chris Strong.

A tree fell on a vehicle in Annandale on Hummer Road near Gallows Road, killing a 57-year-old Huu Dai Pham from Delaware, according to police. The storm “hit us very hard,” said Penny Gross (D) the county supervisor for the Annandale part of the county. Gross said the damage she saw throughout the Mason District the next morning was extensive.

In McLean, Uzun had to stop serving when it got too dark for customers to see their plates, he said. At his nearby home, he and neighbors plugged into his generator for power.

About 335,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers lost power Wednesday afternoon, according to a press release. Most of them in Northern Virginia, Karl Needdenien, a spokesman for the power company that services much of the region, said.  Residents and businesses in Springfield and Herndon were hit the hardest, Needdenien said. By Thursday afternoon the company had restored power to more than 240,000 people.

About 160,000 Pepco customers lost power, according to a release. By the next morning, power had been restored to only half of those Dominion customers, Needdenien said. Pepco was able to restore power to about 60,000 of the 160,000 customers who lost power, according to a release.

It's difficult to tell where the storm was strongest, but “it hit Loudoun and Fairfax pretty good,” Strong said.

Tornado warnings were issued for several counties across Northern Virginia, including Fairfax County, although the National Weather Service couldn't confirm how many touched down in the region, Jared Kline, a spokesperson said on Thursday morning.

The storm hit as Fairfax County Public School students were being released, so some of them were on the road, according to school spokesman Paul Regnier.

“We have no reports of people being hurt,” Regnier said. Many students were kept at schools until much of the storm passed and were released slowly. The vehicles of several administrators at Herndon High School were crushed by fallen trees and students at 27 schools were sent home early Thursday because the schools still had no power.

In Fairfax City, there were power outages and a large tree fell on Chain Bridge Road, blocking traffic for a while. But, the city overall fared well, especially compared to neighboring Annandale, said Ken Rudnicki, the city's emergency manager.

“We received dozens of called about downed trees and flash flooding,” said Dan Schmidt, a spokesman for the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department.

Matthew Kirk, who lives in the west Springfield area of the county, said his neighborhood was only without power for a few hours, but massive trees blocked traffic throughout the evening and the side roads were clogged with people trying to get home.

Oak Hill's Glory Days Grill lost power around 3 p.m., before it opened. "We went ahead and opened the bar and served cold sandwiches and made soup on a gas range," said District Manager Chris Verdecchia. "We served customers until about 8 p.m. when it got dark and then closed for the night."

Verdecchia said that with the sixth game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals taking place Wednesday night, he's sure he lost some revenue. "Our Sterling location was open and had power, so we steered people over there," he said.

Times staff writers Gregg MacDonald, Kali Schumitz and Monty Tayloe contributed to this report.