CECILIA, Ky. — Severe storms moved through southern Indiana and central Kentucky on the evening of June 25, 2023. Storms brought damaging winds, hail and tornadoes.

Spectrum News 1 spoke with homeowners in the area who say they are counting their blessings and happy to be alive.

Cezanne Davis is one of those homeowners, surveying the extensive damage to her home.

According to Davis, there were no sirens or warnings. She and her husband just knew the deafening noise they were hearing was a tornado.

“You just get that feeling if you’ve ever heard that sound before and it’ll go quiet before it hits and you better be in a closet or bathtub if you don’t have a basement.”

The Davis home doesn’t have a basement, so they had to make due with their first floor closet.

“I was in here and I took off and ran into that closet,” she explained. “And I just yelled at him to take cover, and when I went in there all that glass came flying through and he went around that way and got into that closet under the stairs,” Davis said.

“If I’d opened this door and he’d come in that way, it’d probably sucked us both out,” she said.

Davis said their dog and cat also survived.

Still in shock, the family has been working with crews to assess the damage and start planning for repairs.

National Weather Service and Hardin County Emergency Management teams are out surveying the damage in the area.

“The scary thing is residents had no warning except for a severe thunderstorm warning. That’s why it’s so important to pay attention to your NOAA weather radios, pay attention to any tv station that puts out any weather warning…at some point it can always spin into a tornado and this is one of those times when it just happened like this and sometimes there’s no advanced warning on a tornado. So this should be a lesson to all of us,” explained Hardin County Emergency Management Director Joey Scott.

For Davis and her husband, it’s a lesson to not take what they have for granted.

“We were just thankful that when we reconnected to each other, we were okay. All this can be replaced and nobody was hurt but it was pretty scary. We were really shaken at the time,” Davis said.

Survey teams are out investigating more damage and possible tornadoes. In southern Indiana, teams are in northeast Dubois County into Orange County, and southern Floyd County.

They will also inspect damage in Warren, Madison and Russell County. 

Preliminary straight-line wind damage was found in parts of Bullitt County as well.

This article will be updated with more information as it becomes available.