<body><div>LAUDERDALE COUNTY. - While tornado sirens sounded in parts of the Mid-South, it was powerful straight-line winds that snapped power poles like toothpicks in Lauderdale County.FOX13 spotted crews repairing power poles that were snapped in half in Ripley, Tennessee, Monday.At 7:26 pm Sunday, a severe thunderstorm warning was issued for Lauderdale County. At that exact moment, an image was captured by a weather camera in Lauderdale County of the incoming storm, which was being warned for nickel-sized hail and winds up to 70 miles per hour.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2aN6Ue_19g1raJB00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2aN6Ue_19g1raJB00" width="1920" height="1080" ><figcaption>Photo courtesy of Lauderdale County Emergency Management Lauderdale County Emergency Management</figcaption></figure>Once that storm arrived in Ripley minutes later, the poles came crashing down. <figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=17vDAM_19g1raJB00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=17vDAM_19g1raJB00" width="1920" height="1080" ><figcaption>Photo courtesy of&nbsp; Lauderdale County Emergency Management Lauderdale County Emergency Management</figcaption></figure>Crews were out in Ripley all day Monday, keeping part of Washington Avenue closed, so they could work on repairing and replacing the broken poles.Austin Thompson Jr. is the owner of Thompson's Mortuary, which sits right next to this stretch of poles. He says one of his directors lives at the mortuary and saw it all happen."He called me last night, and he heard a loud noise. He heard the winds were real high. And when he came outside, those poles had started breaking all the way down the street there," Thompson Jr. said.Thompson Jr. says the power did go out, but it was restored 2-3 hours later.The Lauderdale County Emergency Management Director says power was rerouted to this section, turning the lights back on."Power and light company came out, and on the last pole before that one fell down, they propped it up with one of their trucks. That held it for the rest of the night," Thompson Jr. said.That was not the only damage reported in Lauderdale County.A barn was blown onto a roadway near Halls, TN.A witness said it was like a scene out of Twister, with the barn flying through the air and crashing into the road.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2TbkFq_19g1raJB00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2TbkFq_19g1raJB00" width="1920" height="1080" ><figcaption>Photo courtesy of&nbsp; Lauderdale County Emergency Management Lauderdale County Emergency Management</figcaption></figure>When FOX13 visited the area Monday, shards of debris were on either side of the road, pieces of tin roofing littering the trees, and even the field across the street. Garland Hargett is the owner of the barn. He was home with his granddaughter when it all happened."All of a sudden, just a big boom hit, a gust of wind, and my granddaughter said, 'Grandpa, I think something happened to the barn.' " I said, "No, I don’t think nothing happened to it.” Well, I came out and was going to go look, and there was a car stopped, and they said, "Hey, your barn’s in the middle of the road!” I said, "Oh boy…” So I called the county, and I said, "Look, y’all need to get somebody out here before somebody runs through what’s left of it," Hargett recounts.County and emergency management crews cleared it out of the road by hand in about an hour’s time. No one was hurt.Hargett now says he plans to rebuild the barn and estimates it will take him about a month to do so. </div></body>

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LAUDERDALE COUNTY. - While tornado sirens sounded in parts of the Mid-South, it was powerful straight-line winds that snapped power poles like toothpicks in Lauderdale County. FOX13 spotted crews repairing power poles that were snapped in half in Ripley, Tennessee, Monday. At 7:26 pm Sunday, a severe thunderstorm warning was...

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LAUDERDALE COUNTY. - While tornado sirens sounded in parts of the Mid-South, it was powerful straight-line winds that snapped power poles like toothpicks i

Powerful storms cause widespread damage in Lauderdale County

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