Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 06:00PM 
The National Weather Service in Paducah has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Hardin County in southern Illinois... Southeastern Saline County in southern Illinois... Gallatin County in southern Illinois... North central Crittenden County in western Kentucky... Southwestern Union County in northwestern Kentucky...
* Until 600 PM CDT.
* At 509 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Shawneetown, moving southeast at 25 mph. HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include... Sturgis, Shawneetown, Ridgway, Equality, Cave-in-Rock, Old Shawneetown, Junction, Karbers Ridge and Gross.
* AFFECTED AREAS: SALINE, IL ... UNION, KY ... GALLATIN, IL ... HARDIN, IL ... CRITTENDEN, KY
Instructions:
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
Address/Location
Saline County Sheriff's Office
1 North Main St
Harrisburg, IL 62946
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 618-252-8661