The Daviess County Emergency Manager reports as many as 750 homes and businesses may have been damaged or destroyed. As many as 12 people have been injured in Daviess County. Elsewhere, homes, farm buildings, trees and power lines were damaged by winds as high as 70 mph. Trees and power lines were reported down in Wayne, Bollinger, and Union counties. In Missouri, a severe storm, possibly a tornado, moved through the southeast portion of the state causing damage in Cape Girardeau County.
Preliminary reports indicate three homes and four businesses damaged.
Two of the homes are missing their roofs while two mobile homes were destroyed. Two people received minor injuries. Local officials report at least four tornadoes touched down in Mississippi yesterday, destroying a few homes and moderately damaging other buildings. Trees were uprooted and one car was overturned when twisters hit Lafayette, Yalobusha and Union counties. In Arkansas, severe storms moving east to west across the state caused sporadic damage in several northern counties.