I got this photo via email from Stephanie Schmidt, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies & Biology at St. Olaf:
I took this from one of our teaching labs on the 4th floor of Regents Hall. We watched it come down and go back up a few times, but never saw it actually touch the ground from our point of view.
Strib at 3:12 pm: Tornadoes reported near Lakeville and Northfield
Update 4:30: Photos by Richard Goerwitz, taken at the Computing & Mathematics Center at Carleton:
kstp.com has a short video taken from their chopper along county road 47.
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S1652296.shtml?cat=1
Don’t know whose house that is, but I hope everyone was OK. Looks like most damage was to the garage/outbuildings. I’m sure the semi driver had quite a fright, too…
Thx, Anne. I’ve added two more photos to the blog post above, these by Richard Goerwitz, taken at the Computing & Mathematics Center at Carleton. Thx to Jessica Paxton for emailing them.
KYMN has added photos of damage:
http://kymnradio.net/2010/07/14/todays-news-update-topic-9/#more-9817
At this point, the boys of KYMN appear to have handed the boys of the Northfield News their ass when it comes to storm photos:
http://kymnradio.net/2010/07/14/todays-news-update-topic-9/#more-9817
http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=53529
Man, I wanna be a tornado chaser!
A dear friend of mine from NH called tonight having just heard Jeff Johnson’s interview on the Weather Channel — so Jeff is really having his moment of national glory!! They showed his photos and asked him lame questions like “So, were you scared when you saw the funnel cloud?”
KYMN@YouGoDudeGo!.com
crazy. i drove by that house on my way home (Vermillion) and the news vans were there. they already had the roof patched up and most of the debris cleaned up, so at first it looked like they were just doing home repairs. then i realized it didn’t look that way when i came to work that morning.
The Nfld News put up some tornado photos today submitted by Andrew Miner and Stephanie Church:
http://northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=53535
Tornado videos: I got a tweet from former Northfielder Steve Grove (now "running news and politics at youtube") on this CitizenTube blog post titled Storm Chasers Capture Powerful Minnesota Tornadoes.