National Weather Service Confirms Four Tornadoes Touched Down in Minnesota on Monday

(KNSI) — The National Weather Service confirms four tornadoes touched down in Minnesota on Monday, leaving an extensive trail of damage in their wake.

The twister that hit the small town of Forada was the strongest at an EF-2, with maximum wind speeds estimated at around 120 miles an hour. Insulation, shingles, siding, and other debris littered the town Tuesday as survey crews assessed the damage. The whir and whine of chainsaws filled the air as residents and volunteers cleaned up the mangled trees, flipped cars, and flattened homes and other buildings. Amazingly, no serious injuries or fatalities were reported with the storm that contained multiple vortexes and a damage path at least half a mile wide.

One tornado touched down in Eagle Bend in Todd County. Another hit the town of Plato in McLeod County. Those tornadoes were each an EF-1 with top sustained winds at 95 miles an hour.

The fourth confirmed tornado, also an EF-1, traveled between six miles south/southeast of Appleton and four miles northwest of Glenwood. That was considered a long-track tornado with damage scattered across four counties with max winds of 100 miles an hour.

More information will be released as the National Weather Service continues to collect and analyze the data from the storms.

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