Little damage reported from storms in Cape Girardeau County

The storms that rolled through Cape Girardeau County Tuesday night did little damage, but caused plenty of fright.

Most of the events caused by the storms were related to flooding, and some hail was reported in Cape Girardeau County.

The National Weather Service has plans to survey the affects of the storms in the Southeast Missouri area, but survey teams are busy today looking at damage from tornadoes in Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee, as well as a reported tornado in Ripley and Butler counties in Missouri, said Beverly Poole, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Paducah, Ky.

The worst damage was in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, as storms ripped up buildings and killed at least 50 people, according to reports from the Associated Press.

While the storms were less violent and deadly in Southeast Missouri, the area still experienced significant storm-related events reported by the National Weather Service.

Those events include:

A flash flood near Delta, Mo., on Highway P.

Possible tornado damage in Ripley County, Mo.

A possible tornado sighted near Poplar Bluff, Mo.

Pea- to quarter-size hail on Highway 177 in Cape Girardeau County.

A possible tornado sighted near Gideon, Mo.

Wind gusts of 60 miles per hour near Price Landing in Scott County.

A tornado warning was issued around 7 p.m. Tuesday night for Cape Girardeau County.

Poole couldn't give specific details on the track of this particular storm as it moved through the area because of the sheer volume of severe storms being Tuesday night.

But Poole said that despite no funnel cloud or tornado touchdown, the tornado warning for Cape Girardeau County was warranted.

"Without question, we were in a tornadic environment," Poole said.