UPDATE, 11 p.m.:
There were “no major injuries” at Park Place apartments in Newburgh after a potential tornado marched through the area, the Newburgh Volunteer Fire Department confirmed Sunday night.
The department shared on the update on its Facebook page around 11 p.m.
As of 11:04, however, another potential tornado was still moving through the eastern stretches of Warrick County and into Spencer County. It’s one of several storms that left trails of damage all over Southwestern Indiana.
Officials closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 earlier in the evening after a car apparently struck a downed tree in the road around the 44-mile marker. ISP said the road had reopened as of 11:05.
CenterPoint was reporting more than 3,000 customers without power.
UPDATE, 10:30 p.m.
UPDATE, 10:25 p.m.
Indiana State Police and others were responding to a “major tornado incident” along Park Place Drive in Newburgh just before 10 p.m., ISP public information officer Sgt. Seth Rainey said. He didn’t go into specifics, but there had been reports of damage in the area.
A strong cell marched down Indiana 66 earlier Sunday night, right along Newburgh’s main business drag. A Courier & Press photographer witnessed damage to the Flea Market Frenzy vendor mall building. The stoplight at Indiana 66 and 261 was out as well.
It was part a string of damage in Newburgh and Warrick County. Later Sunday, Rainey wrote officers were responding to a wreck on Interstate 64 involving a vehicle and a downed tree near the 44-mile-marker.
The tree caused officials to close the eastbound roadway for now. The interstate was already down to one lane in the area because of construction.
Just shy of 1,400 CenterPoint customers were without power as of 10:25.
EARLIER
Severe storms rolled through the Tri-State on Sunday evening, with several possible tornadoes reported to the National Weather Service.
A tornado watch is in effect until 10 p.m. for most of Southwestern Indiana.
Around 9:05 p.m., the weather service issued a tornado warning for Vanderburgh County, including the Downtown and East Side areas of Evansville, as radar showed rotation in a storm.
Vanderburgh County’s Emergency Management Agency said it confirmed a “brief touchdown” of a tornado near Deaconess Gateway Hospital at Epworth Road and Indiana 66 at 9:23 p.m.
An earlier storm in Gibson County, Indiana, caused damage near Owensville, according to Bruce Vanoven, the county’s sheriff.
“We have had some tornadoes touch down,” Vanoven said in a video posted to social media, citing a storm that struck near Indiana 65 and County Road 850 South. “… There’s been a lot of damage, some houses completely obliterated.”
The weather service posted the tornado warning for that storm at 7:09 p.m.
Vanoven said he has “heard of no injuries at this point.”
Other tornado warnings were posted for several counties across Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana.
In Warrick County, an emergency management official reported trees and power lines down in Lynnville. There was also a report of a tree down on a home along Bucksin Road west of Lynnville.
The area was in a “slight risk” zone for severe weather on Sunday evening, according to the weather service’s Storm Prediction Center.
More storms are expected to move through the region over the next several hours.
Centerpoint Energy reported 4,990 customers without power as of 9:40 p.m. Duke Energy, which services other areas in Southwestern Indiana, listed about 2,400 customers without power in Gibson, Pike, Posey and Warrick counties around the same time.
This article will be updated.
Evansville weather radar
This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Tornado caused damage in Newburgh and Gibson County, Indiana on Sunday
Reporting by Ryan Reynolds, Jon Webb, MaCabe Brown and Sarah Loesch, Evansville Courier & Press / Evansville Courier & Press
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