Bloomington residents clean up after tornado, severe storms

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Cleanup underway after severe storms with tornadoes strike Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Some Bloomington residents started the day Friday by cleaning up the damage left behind by severe storms and a tornado that rolled through the area on Thursday night.

The National Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes from Thursday’s storms.

The one in Bloomington, initially assessed as an EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, was upgraded to an EF-2. The maximum wind speed was 120 mph. It touched down west of the Monroe County Airport at 6:57 p.m. Thursday, lasted nine minutes, had a maximum width of a three-quarters of a mile, and traveled nearly 4 miles.

The other tornado, in Sullivan County, traveled in a rural area between ...

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