South Dakota tractor taken by tornado found in Montana

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WOW! THAT IS SOME TORNADO!

Thank you for sharing my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell and making us aware that "Doug Davis finally found his tractor that had been swooped up by a tornado from his ranch in northwest South Dakota."
The tractor was a 1974 Case 1070, 105 horsepower, pale yellow metal hood and cab and dark orange engine and frame and wheels.
Since Doug Davis' farm is about 100 yards from the Montana line it is not surprising that the tractor was lifted up and broken up when it came down across the North Dakota/Montana state line.

“The tractor is mostly scattered in Montana,” he told the Capital Journal on Monday night.
The tornado came from the southwest on Thursday night, June 28, 2018 one of many that twisted their ways across Carter County, Montana, and Harding County, South Dakota.
“It was like someone threw the gate open and they just came running out,” said Kathy Glines, emergency manager for Harding County. “There were at least five twisters.”
The National Weather Service office in Rapid City reported that four tornadoes hit Carter County and four were spotted in Harding County.
The one that hit Davis’ ranch was rated an EF-3 with peak winds estimated at 136 mph, traveling 3.6 miles wreaking havoc across a path 900 yards wide, according to the weather service.
That’s not even close to how big the tornado must have been, Davis said. “What can lift a 10,000-pound tractor and carry it over a mile-and-a-half?”
What intrigued him is the tractor left no tracks of its exit.
He examined where the tractor had been standing when the tornado hit.
“It was in crested wheat grass, about 14 inches high. The wheat was straight up, not bent. (The tractor) went straight up, didn’t bend down the crested wheat grass. The tractor was gone. I could see a mile and a half in every direction and could not see it.”
It was a 1974 Case 1070, 105 horsepower, pale yellow metal hood and cab and dark orange engine and frame and wheels.
His Harding County ranch is “about 100 yards from the Montana line and we’re like, 20 miles from North Dakota,” Davis said.
Most of the tractor is spread over three-quarters of a mile, he said.
Thanks for mentioning me SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
As we know God is in control of all creation. Thankfully nobody was injured by this tractor breaking up in the tornado.
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