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Hoosiers surveying damage from EF-0 tornado that hit southern Indiana

And just 20 minutes away in Jeffersonville, residents like James Jackson are still recovering from the much more powerful EF-2 tornado that struck last month.

SELLERSBURG, Ind. — Clean up has started 24 hours after a harrowing event happened in Sellersburg, Indiana on Tuesday.

The area was hit by a small tornado that night. Shingles and tree debris were scattered in front of Terry Matern's home in Perry Crossing.

"I was just thinking, not again," he said.

Matern has dealt with high-wind damage in the past, but this time it was worse.

"Right as soon as we stepped in the storage room it was just a loud boom and crackles," he said. 

A neighbor's fence went through his master bedroom.

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"Two pieces of that fence ended up slamming into the house and the one piece went right through the wall," Matern said.

Insulation is scattered across his yard and his roof is covered with tarp.

"You can literally feel the walls moving; at that time the only thing we could do was pray," Marty Hope, Matern's next-door neighbor, said.

He captured a funnel cloud on video from a distance that eventually came towards his home.

"We have roof damage up there, we have some siding damage and a window blown out there," Hope said.

John Gordon with the National Weather Service Louisville office was on the scene by morning. He said the tornado that hit Perry Crossing is considered a 'baby tornado.'

"We have an EF-0 tornado so far, 85 per mile winds; you see the damage behind me, very typical of what I call a rope tornado, very thin," he said. 

Just 20 minutes away in Jeffersonville, residents like James Jackson are still recovering from the much more powerful EF-2 tornado that struck last month.   

RELATED: NWS Louisville: EF-2 tornado in southern Indiana injures 2, damages hundreds of homes

"As you can see I have uprooted trees here," said Jackson.

He lost 37 trees on early April and is still waiting for a new roof. While his neighborhood didn't get hit this time he's just grateful for the huge clean-up efforts.

"I was just hoping and praying that we didn't get a second attack on our homes," Jackson said.

He's grateful that no was injured and that his neighborhood missed the tornado that hit Perry Crossing, by just a few miles.

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