Two tornadoes touched down late Sunday in south-central Minnesota, leaving hundreds of acres of crops flattened and utility poles damaged or destroyed by one of the twisters.
1 of 2 tornadoes flattens 600 farm acres in southern Minn.; large hail reported
July 11, 2017 at 12:41PM
No injuries were reported.
The twisters were part of a swath of stormy weather in various part of southern Minnesota and northern Iowa.
One tornado was reported about 10:25 p.m. by a trained spotter for the National Weather Service (NWS). The spotter detected it between Lake Crystal and Judson.
A second one popped up about 10 minutes later roughly 6 miles north of Lake Crystal, the NWS said.
"Several power poles were damaged or destroyed, and approximately 600 acres of crops were flattened in that area," according to a statement from the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office.
Elsewhere in that part of the state, strong winds uprooted trees and pulled down power lines in Blue Earth and Nicollet counties.
Hail 4 inches in diameter was reported in Winthrop and Lafayette, and up to 2½ inches in diameter in Gibbon, the Weather Service added.
Strong winds from a thunderstorm peeled the roof off a hog barn northeast of Courtland.
Closer to the Twin Cities, a thunderstorm downed trees about 2 miles east of Prior Lake, the NWS said.
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