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3 p.m.: Storm-related fatality successful Greene County
A 33-year-old pistillate was killed and respective children injured erstwhile a histrion fell connected a car successful Greene County during Friday night’s convulsive storm.
Allison L. McCammon of Dugger died astatine the country of the 7 p.m. incidental adjacent County Road 1500 West adjacent Linton. Three children were taken to the hospital, 1 successful captious condition, according to a Greene County Sheriff’s Office quality release.
Dispatchers received a 911 telephone astir a histrion connected apical of a car. Deputies arrived and determined the operator of the 2006 Pontiac had died from injuries from the histrion falling connected the vehicle.
2:30 p.m. Monroe County update
No 1 died oregon was earnestly wounded during the terrible upwind that spawned tornadoes and near swaths of harm successful occidental and confederate Monroe County Friday evening, May 16.
“We besides are alert of 5 storm-related non-severe injuries and 1 96-year-old antheral sustained a caput wounded and was transported to IU Health Bloomington Hospital via ambulance. His wounded was reported arsenic non-life threatening,” a quality merchandise from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said.
But determination was wide spot harm and destruction.
The Ranchero Motel astatine 4805 S. Old Ind. 37 and the Clear Creek Post Office astatine 4888 S. Rogers St. sustained important damage.
The beforehand conception of the Ranchero Motel connected South Old Ind. 37 was destroyed successful the May 16, 2025, tornado.
The station bureau is mostly gone. Owner Tamby Wikle-Cassady, who holds the station bureau lease, said USPS officials had been determination Saturday greeting and that she is hopeful the agrarian postal installation volition beryllium rebuilt.
Residents were told message to Clear Creek postal customers would beryllium taken to the Smithville station office. Customers with postal boxes astatine Clear Creek tin get message astatine Smithville successful the abbreviated term.
The Clear Creek Post Office was open-air Saturday morning. Debris from the tornado that destroyed astir of the operation was piled crossed the road. Post bureau container customers tin retrieve their message astatine the station bureau successful Smithville for now.
There besides was important harm to barns astatine Bloomington's People & Animal Learning Services (PALS) office connected That Road successful Clear Creek. None of their therapeutic riding horses were reported injured.
Nearly 100 homes had tornado damage, the quality merchandise said, galore of them connected the westbound broadside adjacent Ind. 45 and the country astir Stanford, Ison, Elwren and Harmony roads.
Tamby Cassady, who owned the Clear Creek Post Office building, rakes up debris the greeting aft a My 16 tornado that tore done the country and destroyed the station office. She said USPS officials had been to the country and said they anticipation to re-establish the small-town site.
Trees, inferior poles and powerfulness lines were down each astir the storm-struck area. Duke Energy crews were moving Saturday to reconstruct electrical powerfulness to astir 1,000 affected homes and businesses. REMC reported 800 residents without powerfulness aft the storm.
The sheriff’s bureau called successful off-duty deputies to assistance with the upwind exigency “as good arsenic to supply a beingness to those areas heavy affected by the terrible storm,” the quality merchandise said.
A household views tornado harm astatine a location successful Clear Creek Township the greeting of May 17, 2025.
Monroe County Highway Department crews worked passim Friday nighttime and into Saturday responding to assistance with roadway hazards. West Ison Road betwixt South Harmony and South Dunlap roads volition apt stay impassable done the weekend.
Anyone who needs lodging resources oregon further enactment should interaction the American Red Cross astatine 1-800-RED-CROSS.
The remains of the Clear Creek Post Office connected South Rogers Street connected Saturday, May 17, 2025.
10:30 a.m. Saturday update from Brown County
Brown County officials judge a tornado damaged immoderate houses connected the southbound side, apt from a tornado that began successful Monroe County.
Brown County Emergency Management Director Chad Jenkins said the National Weather Service had yet to officially corroborate a tornado, but that appeared to beryllium each but a formality fixed photo, video and eyewitness evidence.
Jenkins said immoderate radical successful the Horsemen's Campground suffered injuries that were not beingness threatening. Indiana University Health took the injured to the Bloomington hospital.
"Everybody is harmless astatine this point," helium said.
Carl Lindell, cardinal portion manager for Indiana State Parks, said 1 equine astatine the campground was killed and different injured, and the campy volition beryllium closed astatine slightest done Thursday.
Lindell said the winds flipped respective trailers and uprooted and snapped trees. The equine trails are closed "indefinitely," helium said.
"The remainder of the parkland received small to nary damage," helium said.
Lindell said the parkland connected Saturday welcomed tons of radical who were enjoying the beauteous weather.
Friday evening update
Tornadoes touched down successful Bloomington, Greene County, Brown County and elsewhere crossed Indiana connected Friday, May 16, arsenic a enactment of storms caused demolition crossed parts of the Midwest.
Some of the archetypal reports were from Linton, wherever the constabulary section sent retired a quality merchandise stating that astatine 6:50 p.m., "a confirmed tornado was located implicit Linton, oregon 31 miles southeast of Terre Haute, moving eastbound astatine 45 mph." The merchandise said upwind spotters had confirmed the tornado.
A transformer and powerfulness lines laic successful the roadworthy on South Rogers Street portion harm tin beryllium seen successful the trees and houses successful the background. Just down the street, the Clear Creek Post Office was destroyed by the tornado that deed the country connected Friday, May 16, 2025.
Social media reports from Greene County showed photos of softball-sized hail.
At 7:30 p.m. Ashley Byarlay was driving location erstwhile she watched a tornado signifier implicit the lodging subdivision disconnected Gordon Pike conscionable southbound of Batchelor Middle School. She took videos connected Facebook arsenic she drove and explained what she was seeing.
Michael and Ashley Byarlay survey the harm near down by a tornado that touched down Friday, May 16, 2025, successful the Clear Creek country of Monroe County. People successful vehicles, down them, were driving to the country to spot the harm for themselves.
"My imagination occupation was to beryllium a tempest chaser," she said, "so I got to unrecorded my imagination occupation today."
She said she watched the tornado interaction down adjacent South Rogers and That Road and past assistance up and question farther eastbound earlier dropping down again. The Clear Creek Post Office was deed arsenic were respective different buildings. Transformers and powerfulness lines were lying successful the thoroughfare arsenic radical came retired from their homes and drove by successful cars to spot the damage.
Her husband, Michael Byarlay, was waiting astatine home. Both were surveying the harm later, alternatively of going connected the day they had planned. While the prima acceptable and sheriff deputies began to locomotion down the road, looking astatine the damage, the scanner connected Michael's compartment telephone was alerting exigency unit successful Brown County that Ind. 135 was closed owed to debris successful the road, hindering ambulances from helping radical successful the enactment of the storms there.
At 9 p.m. Friday, the Monroe County Emergency Management Facebook leafage posted an alert that the region had issued a question advisory owed to hazardous roadworthy conditions. Ind. 45 adjacent Abel Nursery conscionable westbound of Bloomington was closed to traffic.
A transformer and powerfulness lines laic successful the thoroughfare on South Rogers Street adjacent the intersection with That Road, wherever a tornado caused harm connected Friday, May 16, 2025.
Contact Carol Kugler astatine [email protected].
This nonfiction primitively appeared connected The Herald-Times: 1 dormant adjacent Linton, Clear Creek Post Office homes damaged by tornadoes Friday night
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