MINNESOTA, USA — Xcel Energy said more than 1,000 people were without power Friday evening as a line of thunderstorms moved across Minnesota.
Nearly 1,400 people were affected by outages as of 9 p.m., according to Xcel's electric outage map.
As storms moved into Washington County in the east metro, athletes participating in the Ragnar Road Minnesota race helped to clear a tree that had fallen onto a sedan along the race route.
Others across the Twin Cities metro reported dime-to-quarter-sized hail, which KARE 11 photojournalist Gary Knox captured from the station's parking lot in Golden Valley.
At Clifton E. French Regional Park in Plymouth, Mya Hardin and Lauren Mlekoday were relaxing and working on a painting project when the storms roared through around 5 p.m.
"It's like someone is pouring buckets down from the sky!" Hardin said as she took cover under a pavilion roof.
Mlekoday added: "It was so sunny today! All the sudden this just appears out of nowhere."
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