MPR’s Annie Baxter reports on residents and city officials working hard to clean up parts of the northern suburb of Rogers, after tornado level winds ripped through the town on September 16th.
On the night of September 16, 2006, a combination of warm and muggy air, southerly wind gusts, and cool Canadian air from the northwest, triggered severe thunderstorms across central and southern Minnesota. An F2 tornado, with winds gusting over 100 miles an hour, hit Rogers, Minnesota. 200 to 300 homes were damaged and 50 were destroyed. A 10-year-old girl was killed in storm.