Multiple tornadoes touched down in central Indiana on Wednesday, tearing the roofs off apartment buildings, sending air conditioners falling onto parked cars and cutting power to thousands of people. The National Weather Service reported a "confirmed large and destructive tornado" hit about 15 kilometres east of Kokomo, or about 65 km north of Indianapolis. It's a madhouse," said Mitchell Carlson, a maintenance technician at the Park Place Apartments in Kokomo. Indiana University Kokomo cancelled all events on campus Wednesday evening due to the severe weather. School officials in Avon, near Indianapolis, cited the severe weather in ordering all buses to return to the nearest school.

Source: CBC News August 24, 2016 22:12 UTC