Survey results released Monday by the National Weather Service indicate an EF-1 tornado touched down in St. Joseph County near Wyatt early Monday morning as part of the storm that battered the county.
The results show the tornado happened between 2:07 and 2:09 a.m. and had a path that was about a mile long.
Officials say several healthy trees were snapped along the damage path and a barn lost its roof.
An EF-1 is described as moderate and is the second-weakest tornado rating. The Wyatt tornado had estimated peak winds of 100 miles per hour.
The Monday morning storm also knocked out power for about 28,000 area residents.
At the peak of the outage, about 28,000 residents had been left without power. As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, approximately 1,551 households in the Elkhart area and 168 in South Bend were still in the dark, as were a little under 100 in Southwest Michigan.
Indiana Michigan Power expects to have power restored to 90% of customers in the Elkhart and South Bend areas by 11:00 p.m. tonight.
In a Facebook post, the company said crews and contractors are working as quickly and safely as possible to restore power, and have so far found 15 broken poles, 49 downed wires and three damaged transformers.
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