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County, damaging property. This storm intensified along a strong warm front with very unstable air and strong deep layer winds into several supercell thunderstorms and a damaging line of thunderstorms/bow echo across parts of central and northeast South Dakota through the afternoon hours. Damaging winds up to 90 mph uprooted large trees and caused considerable structural and crop damage and loss of power to those along the path. The worst wind damage was located at Lake Poinsett, Watertown, and Milbank. A woman was killed and her husband was seriously injured on Lake Poinsett when their lake house was destroyed. Numerous trees were downed along with many structures damaged or destroyed. Many trees had fallen onto homes, cabins, and trailers. The bowling alley in Clear Lake lost its roof along with numerous pole barns being destroyed along the path of the storm. Thousands of people were also left without power. Four tornado touchdowns occurred along with hail up to the size of softballs. Isolated flash flooding also occurred. Codington, Hamlin, Grant, and Deuel counties were all declared in a Federal Disaster Declaration. Total damage estimates were around 1,100,000 dollars.

1942: The temperature reached 129 degrees in Tirat Tsvi, Israel.

1972: An F3 tornado destroyed two homes and several businesses in Eloy, AZ. Also, an F2 tornado damaged several hundred homes from northeast Phoenix into Paradise Valley.

1987: A tornado destroyed 57 mobile homes at the Chateam Estates trailer park northwest of Detroit, MI killing 1 person and injuring 6 others. Total damage was estimated at 1.7 million dollars.

1996: Severe storms raked southeastern Lower Michigan. Among the three tornadoes that touched down, an EF3 produced $5,000,000 damage in the town of Frankenmuth. Flash flooding was widespread, resulting in a fatality when a motorist attempted to cross a flooded bridge over the Kawkawlin River.