Severe weather causes heavy damage in south central Indiana counties

A slew of extreme climate, together with excessive winds and heavy rain, precipitated in depth harm Saturday afternoon in a number of south central Indiana counties.

Counties that noticed storm harm included Shelby, Johnson and Bartholomew. On the connecting border of those three counties is town of Edinburgh, which skilled heavy harm. A number of folks within the metropolis reported bushes falling on vehicles and homes and roadways had been suffering from particles.

The scoreboard on the soccer subject of Edinburgh Neighborhood Excessive College was knocked over.

Under is a photograph of harm to a tree close to Edinburgh in Mount Auburn.

Close by, at Camp Atterbury in Johnson County, excessive winds closely broken the army coaching base’s historic Put up Chapel, Sheriff Duane Burgess confirmed. Others noticed what appeared like funnel clouds within the sky in Johnson County.

A video beneath, recorded from Jo’s Bakery & Pizzeria in Trafalgar, reveals a few of these clouds.

Bartholomew County was additionally affected by Saturday’s storms, with the county Sheriff’s Workplace calling in additional deputies to assist with the harm cleanup. In accordance with county spokesperson Caitlyn Gross, the Taylorsville space trailer park was particularly affected and several other houses had been broken, proven beneath.

Shelby County was additionally hit laborious by the storm, with a number of homes within the southern space of the county experiencing falling tree branches. One home within the city of Waldron caught fireplace.

In accordance with native legislation enforcement, nobody was injured within the Waldron home fireplace.

Our reporting crews are nonetheless trying to observe the total extent of the storm harm to those affected areas. This text can be up to date as extra data turns into obtainable.