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June 07, 2020 - 10:57pm | By Chris Larson
Sunday night brought strong winds and heavy rain across the Red River Valley, in addition to several severe thunderstorm warnings and a tornado warning for a portion of the region.
The National Weather Service says a tornado was reported three miles south-southwest of Kulm at 7:20 p.m. this evening by a trained weather spotter who submitted a photograph to the National Weather Service’s Bismarck office.
The Grand Forks National Weather Service office says it received a report of a tornado in the Larimore area just after 9 p.m., but it was determined to be a squall line, with a reported wind gust of 70 miles per hour. A Larimore Fire Department member reported to the weather service a gust of wind moved a fire truck, leading to the original tornado report, which was investigated.
In Traill County, Sheriff Steve Hunt tells WZFG News that multiple trees were downed at a farmstead five miles northeast of Mayville. The report came in just after 9 p.m. Hunt says his deputies were attempting to investigate the report, but, due to darkness, the investigation was hampered.
Hail, in excess of an inch-and-a-half, was reported throughout the region as the storm moved through.
When it hit the F-M metro, wind gusts peaked at 71 miles per hour at Hector International Airport, while a NDAWN station north-northwest of Fargo reported a 64 mile per hour wind gust.
Power outages also affected the region Sunday night. As of 10:55 p.m., Cass County Electric reported an outage affecting 619 customers; of those 619, 17 had been restored already. Xcel Energy reports 39 outages in the F-M metro, as of 10:55 p.m. Those outages affected more than seven thousand customers.
Stay tuned to AM 1100 The Flag and AM1100TheFlag.com for updates on this developing news story.
