MPR’s Matt Sepic reports that in central Minnesota, residents of Litchfield and Watkins are cleaning up after a late afternoon tornado on July 11th damaged homes and other buildings in those communities. The damage shows both the immense power of tornadoes and the precision of their destruction.

As part of a larger central Minnesota extreme rainfall event (a swath from the Brainerd Lakes area, eastward into Pine County…dumping as much as 9.34 inches in Cloverton), at least three tornadoes affected Meeker and Stearns Counties, with EF-2 level tornado damage reported in both Watkins and Litchfield in Meeker County.