By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
MINNEAPOLIS - Minneapolis area residents awoke to more than a rain-washed landscape Thursday morning.
A storm that blew through the area at approximately 4:40 a.m. Thursday brought with it destructive winds estimated to be in the 70-80 mph range, Kris Craven, meteorologist-in-charge of the National Weather Service office in Topeka, told Salina Post.
The area had been put under a severe thunderstorm warning at 4:25 a.m.
"The storm moved through the Minneapolis area around 4:40 a.m., and caused a swath of tree, power line, and roof damage from around Second Street north to around 10th Street," Craven said.
Additionally, the storm dumped quite a bit of rain on Ottawa County. Rainfall totals within the county ranged from 1.42 inched reported 3.6 miles east-northeast of Culver to 2.55 inches 0.4 of a mile northeast of Minneapolis, according to 24-hour rainfall information from the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network.
READ: Rainfall varies from multiple inches to less than a tenth of an inch
Following are some additional photos provided to Salina Post by Dustin McCown.
