We begin tonight with breaking news, deadly storms hitting Central Indiana, Indiana State Police tonight confirming three people are dead in Winchester. This is in Randolph County about 23 miles east of Muncie. The video you're looking at is of a suspected tornado there and I want you to take a look at another suspected tornado. This is a nearby Selma, which is in Delaware County. You can see widespread damage tonight. So far, only minor injuries in Delaware County. We've got live team coverage of this severe weather that has hit the Hoosier State. Chase Howell is in Selma tonight. We've got Logan Gay in Winchester. We're gonna hear from both of them in a moment. I want to thank you for inviting us in. It's 11 o'clock and we begin tonight with Angela who's been tracking these storms all night. Do we have any warnings right now? No warnings right now? But it is a sad night for central Indiana as the clean gets underway after deadly tornadoes, no warnings right now. And the severe threat is beginning to move out of central Indiana. What's left of the tornado watch only impacting now, the far southern part of the state and that's where we find the storms moving. Now beginning to push south of Bloomington and Columbus. I'll give you one local look. Uh, we still have rain in Bloomington. We still have rain in Columbus over toward Greensburg. The strongest storm still could be a hail and wind producer is moving through Brownstown and Seymour right now, it will continue to move off to the east and southeast. So heads up North Vernon, this one moves your way in the next, uh, 15 minutes or so. At this point, no warnings and that severe threat is beginning to wind down. This is future track 13 really doing a great job on the placement of what's left of the storms right now that continues to push out of central Indiana over the next couple of hours. It will be a cloudy and much cooler Friday. I do wanna take you back six hours on radar. We put this into motion and you can see the storms explode over central Indiana at four o'clock this afternoon, Sean, you were monitoring a couple of areas, one in northern Indiana and the other near Saint Louis. And really, it's that section in northern Indiana that took off, unfortunately. Yeah, it really did. I mean, we kind of knew, uh, after, you know, once that first complex of thunderstorms moved through at midday, uh, and it moved out quickly, we got into the sunshine we knew then, yeah, we were gonna be dealing with, uh, you know, a pretty volatile set up and un unfortunately, that's what took place here. These are the storm reports. Uh, you can see that swath a lot of hail. Uh, and unfortunately, as we back radar up, uh, we'll take you back in time here and we'll show you, let me get rid of the lightning on this and we're gonna dive into these cells here, um, and watch a couple of areas of concern there. You can see the twisting that moved through. Uh tornado warning was issued for Delaware County. Uh And then that, that is the rotation. It appears because the rotation went over top of uh Ball State Campus. It appears that this likely damage in Selma is gonna be a confirmed tornado uh that the tornado developed just east southeast of Muncie. It's the same storm and the same rotation that went over farmland and then unfortunately, it went through Winchester and that's what produced uh the killer tornado in Randolph County. Yeah. And if you were with us this evening, it went from a tornado warning issued for Ball State and Selma to a confirmed tornado by the time it did hit Winchester. Yeah. National weather service crews are going to be out tomorrow surveying the damage. Um You know, just to put a rating on this and they'll also get confirmation as far as what's going on in Selma as well. So it is a sad, it's just sad. It is sad. Uh, Scott, back to you, Angela and Sean. Thanks so much. Our live storm team coverage continues tonight in Winchester. That's where state police are confirming three people are dead. We've got Logan Gay joining us live from Randolph County Logan. You just got there on the scene. What have you seen and what have you heard? Yeah, that's right, Scott. We just got here minutes ago to the Winchester City Hall and if you look around, you can see that every agency is here. This is the command hub. Everyone from the sheriff's department to local police, to state police. Of course, the fire department are here. They're here making plans on how they're gonna respond to thi this emergency. On our way here on State Road 32 we saw a lot of storm damage, we saw a lot of emergency vehicles blocked roads, everything. So we made it. And it's sad to see that this severe weather has turned deadly. Those three people who died here, uh, during the storm, we now know that they died in a mo mobile park home on Cash Drive. Now, right now, again, what we're looking at is emergency, uh, vehicles. This road is blocked, uh, for the most part, they're only letting certain vehicles in that are responding to this emergency. We also know that a Taco Bell in a Walmart had been heavily damaged during the storm. So a lot of damage here in Randolph county and specifically here in Winchester. Uh, because of the severity of the damage, law enforcement is asking people to stay away from this town while they respond to this emergency and assess the damage. But again, this is the command center, what you're looking at, you can see all the fire crews here. They are here working on what to do next. Uh, I plan to talk with them here soon as soon as they are able because again, this is an emergency. They are doing the best that they can and they have a lot to handle. But once we do get more information, we will get that back to you as soon as possible. Scott. All right, Logan Gay in Winchester where three people are dead tonight. We'll get back to you in a little bit and our live storm team coverage continues tonight in Delaware County where we are seeing lots of damage in Selma. Our Chase Howell joins us live tonight. He's been talking with residents who heard and saw those storms roll through tonight. Chase Scott. I want to start off by saying this. The Delaware County Sheriff's Department says that 50% of the structures here in Selma have been damaged, but they said they are only getting reports of minor injuries. So I want to go and make note of that tonight, but I want to show you the damage now, which started over here from what neighbor, one neighbor was telling me, she says when she was outside, she saw what she believed was a tornado touched down and this is why the streets are shut down here on Jackson. It's because you have these power lines and these trucks that were shifted into the roadway, there are several limbs just down on the ground, including these power lines which I'm told have been shut off. But again, you never know that's still dangerous. But I want to show you how fast those winds must be moving. This is a multi passenger van, the size of this and the weight of this is I can't even describe it to tell you how fast those winds and how powerful those winds must have been. Now, just across the street over here and you might not be able to see a lot of it because it's dark, but there is a home that was completely taken off its foundation right here. Again, there's a lot of limbs down the street. There's several power lines down, several cars shifted into the road, but I want to make note of this. There are about 10 emergency crews from around the area here helping going door to door knocking, making sure residents here are ok, bringing them water and also taking them to safety. We saw multiple people being brought out of homes and into vans into safe haven and I want to make a note of this too, Scott seeing the community tonight come together is just so heartwarming. Seeing these emergency personnel come together to help this town of Selma. It's incredible and to know that there's just minor injuries. I think a lot of people here are telling me they're very, very blessed. Hoosiers always rally in this kind of a situation tonight. We're happy that there are only minor injuries and no deaths where you are in Delaware County Chase. Hell from Selma. Thanks so much. So Indiana Michigan Power which serves Muncie and Winchester reporting tonight. More than 7000 Hoosiers without power, Duke Energy has more than 700 people without electricity. Now, down in southern Indiana, the first wave of the severe weather which likely included tornadoes caused damage near the Kentucky border. This is video over the Ohio river today. Eerie video from Madison Indiana and you can see all that debris spinning up in the air and that funnel blowing right past a large there in the Ohio River today and that not far from Madison Indiana. This is video from Hanover Indiana. The damage and debris visible in this particular neighborhood. The thunderstorm today left many people without power, others working together to clean up this big mess. Indiana State police have been posting pictures of that damage in southern Indiana, specifically in Jefferson County. The images we've seen on social media show damaged houses down power lines and trees toppled by today's severe weather. And I want you to take a look at this in Southern Indiana. This is baseball sized hail this afternoon in Jefferson and Switzerland counties and look at the damage to this windshield. State police sending us photos showing damage to a state trooper's car. Police going on to tell us that several Indiana State police vehicles were hit by large hail today and now is a perfect time to make sure you've got our WT hr weather app on your phone. It gives you that access to live interactive radar. It can send you alerts when we've got severe weather heading into neighborhoods. It's a free download and you can get it in the app store. Now, we're gonna be following these storms and the massive clean up overnight. We're gonna have updates for you tonight and our team coverage continues on sunrise tomorrow morning, which begins at 4 a.m.
