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One dead, thousands without power after storms hit U.S. Midwest
2013-06-22 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: One woman is dead and more than 200,000 homes and businesses are without power in the upper Midwest on Saturday after severe thunderstorms struck parts of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with damaging winds, lightning and baseball-sized hail. The storms developed in the Dakotas on Friday and powered through Minnesota into Wisconsin, producing wind gusts up to 85 mph and large hailstones, some in excess of 4 inches in diameter, as well as short-lived tornadoes, said Brynn Kerr, a meteorologist...
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