More than 14,000 without power after storms roll through Minnesota originally appeared on Bring Me The News.
Storms that produced severe weather in the Twin Cities Friday evening were followed by another round of hefty storms Saturday morning, resulting in thousands of Xcel Energy customers without power.
As of 8 a.m. Saturday, Xcel Energy estimated approximately 14,800 customers without power. Locations with the most outages include:
3,000 in Minneapolis
2,800 in White Bear Lake
2,300 in Eden Prairie
1,800 in Faribault
Storms rapidly developed and produced strong winds, large hail and flash flooding in the Twin Cities on Friday afternoon.
Large hail was reported in Anoka, Apple Valley, Burnsville, Circle Pines, Champlin, Rogers, Victoria and Rogers. Trees and power lines were downed by a severe thunderstorm that struck Hastings, and the same occurred in neighboring Prescott, Wisconsin.
As the storms in the metro and eastern Minnesota died out, more storms fired in western South Dakota and tracked across the state before bowing out and rolling across Minnesota early Saturday.
The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch in the middle of the night, and the line of storms has so far produced numerous damaging wind gusts. The strongest reported so far:
79 mph in Hanley Falls
75 mph near Granite Falls
66 mph in Lac qui Parle
61 mph in Canby
This story was originally reported by Bring Me The News on Aug 16, 2025, where it first appeared.
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