The Marion County Sheriff’s Department is reporting some downed tree limbs and power lines from a strong line of severe thunderstorms that passed through the area late Friday night and in the strong winds blowing in a cold front that followed.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Marion County after a possible tornado was spotted on radar west of Sandoval. Other potential funnel rotation was reported near Patoka and Kinmundy, but no touchdowns have been reported.
Down trees or tree limbs were reported on Marshall Creek Road in rural Patoka, on Jezek Road north of Townhouse Road, Route 37 north of Walnut Hill Road, and north of CJ Heck Road, on Farthing Road at Robinett, and on Hotze Road north of Lazy Acre Road. All of the roads had been reopened.
Salem Police report a tree limb hit a mobile home at Salem Estates Mobile Home Park, but no damage was reported.
Kell Firemen were called out to a report of a power line entangled in a tree on South Jefferson Street near the southern village limits shortly before eight Saturday morning.
Both Ameren and Tri-County crews have been out restoring mostly isolated power outages. 35 Ameren customers were reported out as of eight Saturday morning.
The Salem Water Plant recorded 15-hundredths of an inch of rain and the Centralia Water Plant 21-hundredths of an inch of rain from the storm system. The storms followed a record warm day in Salem. The water plant reported the temperature reached 70 degrees, breaking the old record high of 66 set just last year.
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