Two dots. Both Winona and Stockton rated two dots, each blue for wind damage. A tornado touchdown, in red, is in the middle of Dodge County. Image: National Weather Service
Winona crews cleaning up downed limbs; Xcel had issues
WINONA, Minn. — Winonans woke up to limbs ripped from trees and other remnants of a new batch of thunderstorms. Power was out in some sections of the city. On Stockton Hill, at Highway 14 and Pumpkin Road, a downed blocked the roadway. The storms swept across southeast Minnesota causing much worse damage elsewhere. In Wabasha County, hail as large as 2-1/2 inches along the Mississippi River. That’s baseball size. it came down hard enough to leave unmistakable craters in automobile hoods – while winds, some at 70 mph, ripped shingles from roofs. The National Weather Service had a report of a tornado touchdown in Dodge County west of Rochester. Metal grain bin towers in Claremont and Spring Valley were blown over. Rainfall just about everywhere but less than an inch.
Snapped like a toothpick. Tree decapitated at the knees on Bullis Street in Kenyon. In front of St. Michael’s Catholic Church on the South Side. Image: Gordy Kosfeld