Severe thunderstorms cause sporadic damage across region

Severe thunderstorms bloomed out of Tuesday's extreme heat and caused sporadic damage across the region, according to reports sent to the National Weather Service.

The stage was set with 98-degree highs in Paducah and Cape Girardeau, tying the date's all-time high for both cities.

The storms first formed in Missouri. At 2 p.m. a portion of a tree and alarge amount of corn was blown down by 60-mph gusts north of Cape Girardeau.

A drive in movie screen was damaged near Van Buren. A garage door was blown off in Poplar Bluff, and there was damage to fences, playground sets and shingles elsewhere in Butler County.

A tree also fell across a road in southern Illinois near Elizabethtown.

By 5 p.m. as hail fell in Graves County, a tree came down on a house southeast of Folsomdale, and another fell across KY 1241.


(AP Photo Erin Hooley)