Storms (2)
Unfortunately, some of our storms are quite severe. I remember standing at the airport in Arizona in 1997 and seeing a report on CNN about a tornado that ravaged St. Peter, Minnesota. St. Peter is a lovely community about 45 miles due west of Northfield. The 1997 tornado devestated its downtown and uprooted thousands and thousands of trees in town and on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College. That tornado headed due east and touched down briefly in Montgomery and Lonsdale. It was tracking straight for Northfield, but luckily dissipated before reaching my town.Every year we have approximately ten or so severe weather days where we have tornado warnings. My closest call was in 2001 when an April Tornado skipped directly over Northfield sparing the town any major damage, but it did take out a turkey farm and about a dozen residence along highway nineteen 3 miles east of town.
