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NWS: Sunday's tornado count up to 20 in Illinois, Indiana
Staff from the National Weather Service in Paducah continued on Tuesday to catalog storm damage across their forecast area in southern Illinois and southern Indiana.Meteorologists have increased their tornado count to 20 that were spawned in Sunday's storms between 3:30 pm til midnight from Mt. Vernon to Owensboro.
The strongest was an EF-3 tornado near Mt. Vernon with peak winds of 140 miles per hour. It traveled 14 miles and destroyed three homes. There were two fatalities and several injured.
An EF-2 intensity tornado was on the ground north of Evansville for more than 11 miles.
Otherwise, 17 of the tornadoes were EF-0 or EF-1 with winds of 80 to 110 mph, and paths less than 3 miles.
Meteorologists have compiled their data, now available on their NWS web page .
In the meantime, more local details of individual tornadoes are at WFCN .
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