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Damage reported after tornado-warned storms in Clark, Montgomery counties

CLARK COUNTY — Storm damage and road closures are being reported across the Miami Valley after early-morning storms rolled through the area.

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News Center 7 has had reporters spread out across the impact areas in the Miami Valley on Wednesday, talking to people are the damage done.

The National Weather Service confirmed just after 1 p.m. that a tornado did touch down in the Riverside area.

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Our team went to the Airway Shopping Center, where they saw maintenance workers evaluating and working on damage at Big Lots. More damage was seen at other businesses in the shopping center and caution tape was used to block people from potentially dangerous areas.

In Beavercreek, our team also saw heavy damage done at the University Suites apartments on Zink Road. There, parts of the roof and siding were ripped off.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base also reported damage.

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In Clark County, Young’s Jersey Dairy showed our team the barn was destroyed in the storm.

We also significant damage on Mitchell Road Ridge Road in Springfield Township. On Mitchell Road, News Center 7′s Xavier Hershovitz saw homes that were damaged and at least one that was nearly flattened.

“It’s pretty bad. I don’t know what I’m going to do,” Don Farrell told Hershovitz.

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