Power Outage in Burnsville, MN

A line of thunderstorms developed late Tuesday morning across southwest Minnesota and quickly moved eastward over southern Minnesota, and into west central Wisconsin by mid afternoon. One severe storm became severe near Waldorf and caused sporadic wind damage across rural Waseca County. ||Another strong storm became severe east of Mankato as strong wind shear and ample elevated instability produced large hail near Cannon Falls. There were numerous reports of small hail from northeast of Mankato, through Faribault and the Red Wing area. The largest hail stone fell near Northfield and was measured at 1.50 inches in diameter. ||There was also significant damage to areas southwest, south and southeast of the city of Faribault. Damage included numerous trees down, power lines down, power line poles sheared off, trees on power lines, roofs partially off houses, some sheds, pole barns destroyed and pieces blown over long distances. In addition to the wind damage, straight-line winds caused 9 semi trucks to be blown over on I-35, just south of Faribault.

April 12, 2022

A storm system began to strengthen late Monday night across the central plains in advance of a powerful southern jet stream that intensified over the central part of the country on Tuesday. The center of this storm moved from northern Missouri, northeast across the Midwest and Great Lakes region by late Tuesday night. ||A large area of light to moderate precipitation developed across southern and central Minnesota early Tuesday morning and moved northeast while heavier precipitation started to develop across south central, and into east central Minnesota, and adjacent west-central Wisconsin Tuesday morning. This secondary area of higher reflectivity was in response to the deepening southern jet and associated upper level forcing. This led to moderate, to occasional heavy snowfall across parts of south central, southeast, and east-central Minnesota. A band of 4 to 8 inches of snow fell across the southeastern Twin Cities metro area.||Some of the higher snowfall totals across the east-southeastern Twin Cities metro area include:||8.8 inches near Afton. |7.0 inches in Hastings. |6.5 inches in Rosemount.

February 22, 2022

A small complex of storms that moved out of northeast South Dakota late Saturday morning caused a concentrated area of straight-line wind damage. The Canby, Minnesota airport measured a wind gust of 72 mph. These type of wind speeds continued across portions of Yellow Medicine and Lac Qui Parle counties where hundreds of trees and power lines were blown down. There was another wind gust of 68 mph at the Department of Transportation road sensor (Near Hanley Falls, MN) that went offline as the gust was recorded. ||The worst area occurred in the city of Granite Falls where winds tore open two roofs and allowed water to pour through ventilation ducts into classrooms and hallways, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to the Yellow Medicine East School District building. The Granite Fun restaurant and golf course also sustained damage with 55 to 60 trees blown down. Due to the extensive damage, the city of Granite Falls declared a state of emergency. ||Although wind damage occurred east of Granite Falls, mainly between Sacred Heart to Renville, this storm weakened as it moved eastward toward the western part of the Twin Cities.||A secondary area of storms developed across south central Minnesota during the mid-late afternoon near New Ulm, and produced another area of significant wind damage eastward toward Cannon Falls, and Red Wing. There was a swath of tree damage around Cannon Falls where one house lost its roof, with other having minor roof damage.

August 08, 2020

Thunderstorm Wind. Several trees and power lines were blown down between Lakeville, and Farmington.

June 04, 2019

A powerful storm system that brought blizzard conditions to a wide area of southern and central Minnesota, as well as adjacent west central Wisconsin, developed early Saturday morning in the southern Rockies. The storm moved out into the Plains of Kansas Saturday morning, February 23th, and tracked northeast to northern Missouri by the afternoon. The storm kept steady during this time frame, but intensified rapidly during the evening and overnight period of Saturday and Sunday, February 23rd and 24th. The storm dropped 20 millibars from Saturday evening, through Sunday morning as it moved from northern Missouri, to the northern Great Lakes. ||Snow began in southern Minnesota Saturday afternoon February 23th, and ended Sunday morning. The heaviest snowfall occurred from south of Blue Earth (Faribault County), to Faribault, and Hastings in Minnesota, and to River Falls, and Rice Lake in west central Wisconsin. These areas received between 6 and 12 inches of snow, with localized areas of 12+ inches.||Roads began to close in south central Minnesota before 10 PM CST, Saturday, February 23rd. As winds increased during the night, and Sunday morning, several other roads, including I-35 & I-90 closed due to impassable conditions. The road closures extended northward across portions of southwest, west central and southeast Minnesota as winds increased and snow drifted over the road Sunday. Several social media pictures indicated that snow drifts were as high as 20 feet in some locations in southern Minnesota. Even military vehicles that are made for deep snow, became stuck.||Wind speeds started to increase late Saturday night, and peaked Sunday, and slowly subsided Sunday afternoon and evening as the storm system moved out of the region. However, some roads in south central Minnesota remained closed through Monday as snow plows reported drifts in excess of 20 feet.||During the height of the storm, the Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management tallied approximately 600 stranded travelers who were rescued off of snow-filled ditches, drifted shut roads, and snowbanks. ||Troopers and the Minnesota Department of Transportation officials worked near 24 hours straight to get stranded motorists out of the Straight River rest stop along I-35 south of Owatonna. In Blue Earth County, 150 vehicles were reported off the roads, some were rescued. Seven vehicles were reported off the road in Red Wing. In Freeborn County, crews worked to rescue nine people from two trains stuck on tracks. As individuals were rescued, numerous shelters were opened across southern Minnesota. ||The following was the breakdown of the rescues across southern Minnesota;||Brown County: 5.|Chippewa County: 21.|Cottonwood County: 8.|Freeborn County: 91 (including from stranded trains).|Le Sueur County: 46.|Renville County: 33.|Rice County: 30. |Steele County: 200-plus. |Stevens County: 12. |Swift County: 20.|Watonwan County: 10.

February 24, 2019

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