WINONA, Minn. – Lightning from a quick-moving rain and hail storm struck a blufftop house in the first block of Buck Road. There were no injuries. Police and firefighters cleared debris from the street. Less than two miles away  Homer Road was littered with giant culverts that that washed off a street construction site. The storm felled trees and tore off branches at scattered points. Upwards of three inches of rain was reported. Hail stones the size of tennis balls were also reported. So were 60 mph winds. Elsewhere there was barely any rain. Some streams ran high but receded quickly without overflowing.

Scattered damage. Battered, splintered and fallen in Stockton. Image: Steve Lunde

Summer ice

Two super-intense storm cells swept northeastward out of Iowa in a 120-mile line from LeSeuer, Minnesota to the Mississippi River and east into Wisconsin. Hailstones as large as 2-1/2 inches ranged from nicely rounded white pellets to hefty chucks of crystallized ice. The largest were south of Arcadia, Wisconsin. Viewers of Eau Claire television station WEAU submitted these images.