Strong storms bring large hail, damaging winds along Kentucky-Tennessee line

Strong to severe thunderstorms were scattered but intense on Tuesday, especially along a line from the Missouri Bootheel then along the Kentucky-Tennessee border.

A 61-mile-per-hour wind gust was recorded on a personal weather station in Dorena, Missouri at 6:30 p.m, then at 6:45, power poles were broken by high winds 3 miles east of Hickman, Kentucky.

A brief tornado warning for a radar-indicated storm was issued in Fulton County at 6:30 p.m.

One-inch hail was reported in several locations, including Scott City, Missouri; Cayce, Kentucky; and South Fulton and Martin, Tennessee. 

Frequent lightning was also part of the later line of storms, including a separate line in southern Illinois.