UPDATED: 12 Indiana Southern Railroad cars blown off side track

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The Greene County Sheriff's Department dispatchers were busy throughout the morning fielding calls about trees and power lines down in several areas. One dispatcher said the damage was widespread but he did not report any injuries.

Police and fire department personnel were also busy across the county clearing roads and responding to calls about storm damage.

One person reported a large tree on Spring St. in Bloomfield was uprooted and had crushed a car.

Numerous trees and limbs were also reported to be down in the Midland, Newberry, Hendricksville and Worthington areas.

There were no reports of a tornado touchdown in the county although Worthington's tornado siren sounded at 9:08 a.m.

Besides trees and limbs down all over Worthington, at least 12 rail cars including some tankers were tipped over and blown into a ditch that, at one time, was part of the Wabash & Erie Canal system.

All of the cars were empty according to personnel from the Indiana Southern Railroad Company who were on the scene shortly after the storm.

The location of the incident was along County Road 235W just north of the intersection with CR 500N in Jefferson Township south of Worthington on the east side of State Road 67.

The rail cars were parked on a side track, not the main track that is traveled by trains on a daily basis. The incident occurred just north of where the main track was washed out by floodwaters one year ago in the Great Flood of 2008.

At that location, the side track runs parallel to the old canal and CR 235W.

No injuries were reported near the track.

This report will be updated when more information becomes available.