Tornado touches down in Van Wert County Wednesday

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Fort Wayne’s NBC) - A tornado touched down briefly in the northwestern part of Van Wert County Wednesday afternoon, Van Wert Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy said.

The funnel cloud was part of two different lines of storms that swept through the county Wednesday afternoon, a statement from McCoy said. The first line of storms produced small hail and rain. The second line produced the tornado around 5:30 p.m. The possible tornado briefly touched down in an open field southwest of the Elm Sugar Road and Convoy Heller Road intersection, McCoy said.

According to McCoy, the tornado did not hit anything.

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