Severe storms rattle upper Midwest
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Thunderstorms damaged barns, blew out power and brought golf-ball sized hail to southern Minnesota and eastern South Dakota.
National
Weather Service forecaster Jacob Beitlich says storms Sunday and early
Monday brought a tornado touchdown in Traverse County, Minn., but no major
damage was reported.
He says straight-line winds had gusts of around 75 miles an
hour in Swift and Meeker counties, damaging some farm buildings.
Golf-ball sized hail and some 2-inches in diameter were
reported in Le Sueur, Rice and Goodhue counties but no major damage was
reported.
Officials along the Cannon and Little Cannon Rivers were
monitoring levels but they weren't expected as high as last week. Transportation
officials closed Highway 20 near Cannon Falls
and Highway 50 near Miesville Monday morning due to flooding.
Power outages were reported in central Minnesota.
In South Dakota, the National Weather Service says wind
blew over a pickup truck towing a trailer on Interstate 29 north of Peever on
Sunday night. In Big Stone City, trees were uprooted, power lines were knocked
down and some buildings were damaged. No injuries were immediately reported.
Hail as big as tennis balls fell throughout the region and
there were reports of funnel clouds, including one that the weather service says
might have touched down briefly near Peever.
KXLG radio reports that weather service officials will be
determining whether straight-line winds or a tornado caused the damage around
Big Stone City and Big Stone Lake and nearby Ortonville, Minn.
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