Another Day, Another Town Wrecked By Tornado

In what seems to have become a daily occurrence another Great Plains small town was all but destroyed by a tornado yesterday.  

Wessington Springs, South Dakota after Wednesday's tornado.  

This time, it was Wessington Springs, in central South Dakota that took the hit.

Thankfully, no serious injuries were reported in the town, despite the extreme damage.

There was plenty of warning ahead of the storm, to the point where fire trucks were going back and forth through the town ahead of the tornado with firefighters ordering people into their basements.   

On the bright side, if there is one, the tornado largely dissipated before reaching the much larger city of Huron, South Dakota. Pretty minor damage was reported in Huron.

The severe weather, as it has almost every day this month, touched off renewed flooding in the region, and caused other damage from huge hail and high winds.

The flooding has gotten so bad that the state of South Dakota is going to turn part of Interstate 29 not far from Sioux Falls into a levee to protect some areas from an expected near record crest on the Big Sioux River.

Severe weather and possible new flooding is possible today in the region, but the storms are not expected to be as widespread or as intense as in recent days.

Here's a video of the Wessington Springs tornado, and its aftermath: