Monday, May 26, 2008

Some More Info on Hugo, MN Tornado


Here is a link to some areal coverage of the Hugo tornado (near the Twin Cities). Some houses were heavily damaged. One death has been confirmed from this tornado. Unfortunately it was a two year old toddler.


This story I posted last night in its entirety, but it has been updated. According to the story about 50 homes have been destroyed in Hugo, MN.

Before barreling through Hugo, MN, the storm brought a tornado to the Coon, MN area. Two people were injured.
Here is a video report from that site:
Here is another article. According to the article, one death has occurred and 8 injuries have been reported because of the tornado. It is estimated that at least 50 homes were destroyed and another 100 were seriously damaged. Read the whole article below. There is also a link to a photo gallery on this site:

Here is the story from the Fox station in the Twin Cities. It has information including damage statistics, and links to photo galleries from the storm.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=6625596&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Here is a related story from the Associated Press:

http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D90T084O3

The storm also reported gulf ball-baseball sized hail and damaging straight line winds along with the tornadoes.

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