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: Sheriff: Tornado caused damage in Gibson County, Indiana on Sunday
Reporting by Ryan Reynolds, Evansville Courier & Press / Evansville Courier & Press
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