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(48,443 posts) Sun Jul 14, 2024, 02:41 PM Jul 14

Storms, baseball-sized hail leave trail of damage across Minnesota

Driving down I-94 like a weekend road trip, powerful storms pushed all the way from Fargo into western Wisconsin Saturday night into early Sunday morning and they left a trail of damage in their path.

In Monticello, destructive baseball-sized hail fell from the sky.

“Can you imagine that hitting you in the head?! Whoa,” one man said in a video sent to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS while showing off one of the many large pieces of hail in his yard.

The balls of ice smashed people’s windshields and shattered backyard tables, but for those who were spared from the hail, they couldn’t escape the winds.

Gusts were reported at upwards of 60 mph across the metro which brought down several large trees. One tree can be seen crashed on top of a woman’s car in Rosemount, and another large tree heavily damaged a man’s fence in Plymouth.

“It’s like a tropical storm. You know, it’s not hurricane-force, but it is strong,” Reece said. “At 60 miles an hour, you start bringing down trees, you start bringing down power lines, you strart losing shingles. What we woke up to is no surprise.”

The overnight storms knocked out the power for some 200,000 homes and businesses across the metro early Sunday morning. The National Weather Service is also now investigating at least two reported tornadoes — one near Richland County, North Dakota, and another in Rice County, MN.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/storms-baseball-sized-hail-leave-trail-of-damage-across-minnesota/

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Came around midnight was quite scary. No damage nor loss of power.

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Storms, baseball-sized hail leave trail of damage across Minnesota (Original Post) question everything Jul 14 OP

I was lucky in Golden Valley - just a fraction-of-a-second loss of power, but enough to knock my computer progree Jul 14 #1

Would that be considered a derecho? rurallib Jul 14 #2

Probably. We have had several earlier this season. question everything Jul 14 #4

It was a doozy - lots of large tree branches down in my neighborhood. Ocelot II Jul 14 #3

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1. I was lucky in Golden Valley - just a fraction-of-a-second loss of power, but enough to knock my computer

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Sun Jul 14, 2024, 03:17 PM

Jul 14

offline, which is always a pain because it takes me about 20 minutes of effort to get things back to where they were. This time it also ran something to do a disk repair of the c: drive, a scary thing to contemplate, but it went well AFAIK.

Finally got a good incentive to maybe hook up the UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) that I got last year and that's sitting in a box because so many other things to do.

rurallib

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2. Would that be considered a derecho?

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Sun Jul 14, 2024, 03:35 PM

Jul 14

been in a couple of those in Iowa

question everything

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4. Probably. We have had several earlier this season.

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Sun Jul 14, 2024, 07:04 PM

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Ocelot II

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3. It was a doozy - lots of large tree branches down in my neighborhood.

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Sun Jul 14, 2024, 06:46 PM

Jul 14

On a walk this morning I saw one - almost a whole tree - that fell on a guy's car. He was looking at it forlornly while talking on his phone, probably to his insurance agent. A few phone and cable lines down, too. And now it's hot and tropically humid.

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