WINONA, Minn. – Street fooding occurred on Huff Street and the Winona East Side from downpours that moved through southeast Minnesota and adjoining Iowa counties beginning about sundown. Water was standing
knee deep at Second Street and Mankato Avenue. The storm sewers couldn’t keep up. A small mud and rock slide blocked Old Homer Road south of Winona about 9:40 p.m. In Lewiston in central Winona County, a tree was blown down on a power line. The Rushford-based MiEnergy co-op, which serves the Lewiston area, said the power outage that lasted until midnight. The outage interfered with television reception of the ballyhooed Donald Trump campaign event in LaCrosse. In Iowa near Charles City, 60 mph winds ripped down four-inch diameter tree limbs.
Four-plus inches. This backyard rain gauge up East Burns Valley near Wilson showed 4.1 inches the morning after the storm. Image: Andy Frank