Tornado touches down in Southern Illinois

Rare winter tornado outbreak causes damage in Southern Illinois, Indiana

Video posted to social media shows damage left behind after a tornado touched down in Southern Illinois.

Residents in Crawford County are cleaning up after the National Weather Service confirmed a tornado during a severe weather event. 

The Crawford County Sheriff reported several minor injuries, and at least 12 buildings were damaged.

A tornado was also caught on camera moving through Sullivan County in Indiana, near the Illinois state line. A post on social media shows the dark formation passing near the town of Carlisle.

As CBS News reported, a powerful tornado ripped through Bloomington, Indiana, on Thursday, as severe thunderstorms and 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts. 

The severe weather downed trees and power lines, peeled roofs off of buildings, and destroyed a bank in a normally busy shopping district.

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