Severe Storms Rip Across SD

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Severe Storms Rip Across SD

Viewer photo from Dusty in Mission, SD. Baseball to golf ball size hail fell across Todd County last night, breaking windows, stripping trees, and causing significant crop damage.

By KSFY Staff

Severe storms that crossed South Dakota dropped hail in many areas and packed damaging winds. No injuries were reported.

The National Weather Service says two confirmed tornadoes touched down near Mission, though there were no immediate reports of damage. In nearby Bennett County, winds topping an estimated 100 mph downed large trees and damaged a barn outside Vetal.

Southwest of Sioux Falls, trees up to 2 feet in diameter were uprooted in Parkston, and wind gusts up to 90 mph destroyed a 40-foot-long Quonset building in Scotland. Hail the size of tennis balls was reported in some areas, along with heavy rain that caused street flooding and flooded basements in some communities.

In the northwest part of the state, hail the size of baseballs damaged trees, homes and vehicles in the Lemmon area.

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Wednesday, Jul 29 at 4:10 PM Jasmine wrote ...

The hail nocked off my chimmney!!!!

Thursday, Jul 9 at 8:27 AM jean wrote ...

We had heavy rain, wind and some hail. See tree branches down around town. Glad it wasn't worse.

Thursday, Jul 9 at 7:26 AM jax wrote ...

looks like my neighbors tree fell on top of the backyard playset.

Thursday, Jul 9 at 7:10 AM Sarah wrote ...

I have no idea what I am looking at. It's fuzzy

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