Severe storms featuring rain and high winds thundered through the Twin Cities metro early Sunday morning, knocking down trees and power lines.
Xcel Energy reports that as many as 50,000 customers were without power at one time.
According to the National Weather Service, the storm began in South Dakota about 7:00 p.m. Saturday, with reports of tornadoes touching down.
Video shows a well-formed twister at the South Dakota-Minnesota border near the town of Clear Lake, SD.
The storm and its 50 mile-per-hour winds moved into the St. Cloud area around 9:00 p.m. before moving into the Twin Cities metro after midnight.
"What I think was pretty incredible with this, is the rate at which the rainfall came down," said National Weather Service forecaster Nick Carletta. "If these storms had been slower moving it could have been at lot worse than that we ended up seeing on the flooding threat."
There is some flooding reported in western Hennepin and Wright counties, where rain was falling at one to two inches an hour.
The Crow River in Wright County near Buffalo was at minor flood stage.
One of the worst-hit areas was near the town of Victoria, where trees have been moved out of Highway 7.
The roadway remained closed to allow power crews into the area to bring the electricity back on-line.