1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A small tornado formed in Fayette County south of Vandalia. One mobile home was destroyed, a boat dock at a pond destroyed and several trees downed. Power lines were also downed.
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