KTIV NewsChannel 4 Sioux City IA: News, Weather and SportsTornadoes, hail hit ND, SD
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Associated Press - June 25, 2009 8:25 AM ET
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Storms spawned two tornadoes in southwest North Dakota and as many as five in southeast South Dakota.
National Weather Service meteorologists say there were no immediate reports of damage from the South Dakota twisters Wednesday night, but one tornado in North Dakota's Stark County damaged buildings on a farmstead. No injuries were reported.
The storms also spawned hail. Weather Service meteorologist Richard Ryrholm in Sioux Falls, S.D., says hail two inches in diameter damaged car windows in Artesian. There also were reports of downed power lines near Colome.
In Spencer, Mayor Donna Ruden says the town had nickel-size hail and winds that knocked down tree branches. Spencer was devastated by a tornado in May 1998, and Ruden says it was a good feeling to come out of her basement Wednesday night and see the town "still in one piece."
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