FARGO, N.D. - A rain-wrapped tornado touched down south of Princeton, Minn., Monday afternoon.
Large trees were knocked over along U.S. Highway 169. There was excellent video taken of the storm but the entire mesocyclone was entirely obscured by heavy rain, so a tornado was not actually seen.
The National Weather Service of Chanhassen, Minn., performed a damage survey Tuesday and determined that it was a tornado. This is now in the record books as the earliest confirmed tornado in the history of Minnesota weather. The previous record was March 18, 1968.
The most impressive March tornado in Minnesota history remains the March 29, 1998, tornado that cut a 57-mile path through Comfrey, LeCenter, and St. Peter in southern Minnesota.
