OTTER TAIL COUNTY, MINN. (KFGO) – Otter Tail County Sheriff Barry Fitzgibbons says one person is dead and two people were injured after a tornado struck near Dalton around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The man killed was working in a shop when the twister hit. The conditions of those injured is not known. Last night, the sheriff’s emergency operations team completed searching a 6-to-9 mile area around Dalton and there were no reports of anyone missing.
Carl Jones, a National Weather Service Meteorologist in Grand Forks, says a super-cell that quickly developed in far southwestern Otter Tail county produced a large tornado beginning around 6 miles east-southeast of Dalton and ended six miles southwest of Dalton.
Jones says the tornado is believed to be in at least an EF-3 category, with winds of 136 to 165 mph and was on the ground for as long as 30 minutes. Three farmsteads were hit by the twister. The National Weather Service has a survey team in the damage area again today, assessing the damage and reconstructing the tornado path.
KFGO News Director Paul Jurgens is in the Ashby area providing updates on the deadly tornado.
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