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This image of a funnel cloud was captured at approximately 6:08 p.m. Friday by security cameras at Pacemaker’s Dragway Park in Mount Vernon. Initial reports indicate there was no touch-down and the drag strip appears to have escaped injury. Knox County Emergency Management Agency Director Mark Maxwell reported Friday that there is no known touch down of a tornado in the Mount Vernon area or the rest of Knox County. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning after at 6:11 p.m. after a storm was detected capable of producing a tornado. Maxwell said the image of the funnel cloud has been forwarded to the NWS.
