September 20, 2007
Woodbury, Minnesota
I hope there was no child or any parent sucked out of the house when the tornado hit.
September 20, 2007
Woodbury, Minnesota.
Look at that tree. Huge, beautiful tree once the pride of a property owner will be painfully assigned to a firewood heap or worse. Disgusting !
September 20, 2007
Woodbury, Minnesota
Besides the damage to the building there is substantial damate to the trees. The tree tops have been torturously ripped off and are noted on the ground.
September 20, 2007
Woodbury, Minnesota
Photographer states :: Damage from the tornado that hit Woodbury on Thursday.
From the Hutchinson Union Leader (Hutchinson, Minnesota)
Storm tears roof off rural Hutchinson home
Submitted by Jorge Sosa on September 21, 2007 - 10:52am. Filed under:
Weather
Severe weather rolled through the Hutchinson area yesterday (Sept 20). Greg Plath of Hutchinson Township was sitting at home, at about 4:45 p.m., watching the news about it.
Then he heard a roar.
“It sounded like a train, like they always say,” Plath recalled.
Just as he got to his front window to look outside, he saw his roof take flight. “We had a six-foot overhang,” supported by brick pillars, he said. The pillars stood solid, but the roof flipped up and over his house, landing in the backyard.
Remarkably, his ceiling remained intact. The house never lost power, but his TV went kaput. The wind took the TV aerial along with the roof. Plath joked that the TV going off was the second sign that something was amiss.
The whole incident occurred in the span of seconds. “It was fast,” he laughed. “Fast and furious, just like the movie.”
Plath never saw a funnel cloud, so he doesn’t know for sure if it was just a straight-line wind that ripped the roof off.
He contacted his insurance agent, who said he’d never seen a storm take a roof, but leave the ceiling intact. The agent helped the Plaths place a tarp over the house and Plath and his wife, Darlene, spent the night there.
“The Sheetrock’s all intact,” he said, “but the ceiling joists are starting to pull out of it.”
As of Friday morning, Plath was still waiting on word about when contractors would be out to fix the home. Ironically, the wind left the chairs on Plath’s deck fairly untouched. A couple had flipped over, but were still sitting on the deck.
The weather reportAccording to the National Weather Service, yesterday’s storm resulted from an unusually strong warm front for late September. The front pushed northward across southern Minnesota early Thursday.
Warm, moist air surged north in its wake. Isolated severe thunderstorms tracked across western Minnesota during the morning. The front grew stronger during the afternoon and severe thunderstorms developed across central Minnesota during the afternoon into the evening.
The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings beginning in Kandiyohi and Meeker counties late afternoon Thursday, when Doppler radar indicated rotational movement, and spotters observed wall clouds, from which tornadoes are know to form. Subsequent warnings were then extended to eastern Minnesota counties.
Thunderstorm wind damage and 3/4- to 1-inch size hail were reported in Meeker County, beginning at 4:18 p.m. with trees shredded and blown down. No tornadoes were officially reported to the National Weather Service in this area.
— News Specialist Ardis Tobison contributed to this report.
(Jorge Sosa is a staff writer for the Hutchinson Leader. He can be reached at sosa@hutchinsonleader.com)
Submitted by Jorge Sosa on September 21, 2007 - 10:52am. Filed under:
Weather
Severe weather rolled through the Hutchinson area yesterday (Sept 20). Greg Plath of Hutchinson Township was sitting at home, at about 4:45 p.m., watching the news about it.
Then he heard a roar.
“It sounded like a train, like they always say,” Plath recalled.
Just as he got to his front window to look outside, he saw his roof take flight. “We had a six-foot overhang,” supported by brick pillars, he said. The pillars stood solid, but the roof flipped up and over his house, landing in the backyard.
Remarkably, his ceiling remained intact. The house never lost power, but his TV went kaput. The wind took the TV aerial along with the roof. Plath joked that the TV going off was the second sign that something was amiss.
The whole incident occurred in the span of seconds. “It was fast,” he laughed. “Fast and furious, just like the movie.”
Plath never saw a funnel cloud, so he doesn’t know for sure if it was just a straight-line wind that ripped the roof off.
He contacted his insurance agent, who said he’d never seen a storm take a roof, but leave the ceiling intact. The agent helped the Plaths place a tarp over the house and Plath and his wife, Darlene, spent the night there.
“The Sheetrock’s all intact,” he said, “but the ceiling joists are starting to pull out of it.”
As of Friday morning, Plath was still waiting on word about when contractors would be out to fix the home. Ironically, the wind left the chairs on Plath’s deck fairly untouched. A couple had flipped over, but were still sitting on the deck.
The weather reportAccording to the National Weather Service, yesterday’s storm resulted from an unusually strong warm front for late September. The front pushed northward across southern Minnesota early Thursday.
Warm, moist air surged north in its wake. Isolated severe thunderstorms tracked across western Minnesota during the morning. The front grew stronger during the afternoon and severe thunderstorms developed across central Minnesota during the afternoon into the evening.
The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings beginning in Kandiyohi and Meeker counties late afternoon Thursday, when Doppler radar indicated rotational movement, and spotters observed wall clouds, from which tornadoes are know to form. Subsequent warnings were then extended to eastern Minnesota counties.
Thunderstorm wind damage and 3/4- to 1-inch size hail were reported in Meeker County, beginning at 4:18 p.m. with trees shredded and blown down. No tornadoes were officially reported to the National Weather Service in this area.
— News Specialist Ardis Tobison contributed to this report.
(Jorge Sosa is a staff writer for the Hutchinson Leader. He can be reached at sosa@hutchinsonleader.com)
