A tornado has been reported in downtown Minneapolis Wednesday afternoon and there have been reports of damage in south Minneapolis.
The weather services said it received reports of the tornado at 2:11 p.m. Wednesday. Radar showed the storm moving north at about 20 mph.
It reportedly damaged Central Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis.
A witness at the church said, "We saw the tornado, it was turning, real fast, it got real black out here and had the trees coming to us on the left, the windows were shaking real bad and all this stuff across the street in the church, they had a little dinner there, it tore it all up, and it was just lifting off the ground. And it just disappeared. It just disappeared."
In response to damage and severe weather reports, Minneapolis has partially activated its Emergency Operations Center. There have been no reports of injuries.
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