MPR News PM Update

April 13, 2022

Damaged home

National Weather Service survey teams are in southeastern Minnesota today, assessing  damage left by tornadoes that swept through the area late Tuesday night. 

The Weather Service office in La Crosse posted radar data indicating a handful of possible twisters, including one that hit the town of Taopi, a community of about 80 people near the Iowa border.  

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