Strong storms effect the central part of the area, with power outages lasting as long as 5 hours in parts of Rochester.

Dark neighborhood in the early morning hours of June 11th 2012

Strong thunderstorms effected the central part of the area late last night and early this morning with heavy downpours close lightning and some significant power outages in the Rochester Area. The storms in question first developed in Mower County, where it produced frequent lightning and about a half inch of rain in the Austin area. The storms then developed into a small line and pushed into Olmstead County where it effected Rochester with torrential downpours and dangerous close lightning strikes. There was 1 lightning strike that was espescailly close and had loud thunder. Outages were reported in multiple places in Rochester likely due to lightning hitting power lines. There were reports of power out for as long as 5 hours in West Downtown, Northeast Rochester and the Hart Farms area. My neighborhood was effect by the West Downtown area outage which was without power from about 1AM to 6AM around 1:20am I noticed there were no streetlights on in my neighborhood. Fortunately There was no damage reported anywhere. 0.62" of rain fell in my backyard from the storms.

Rochester Area Totals

 Kutzy Park 0.69"

West Downtown 0.62"

Ouarry Hill 0.55"

Downtown Rochester 0.52"

Rochester Airport 0.32"

Other Area Totals

Dakota 0.57"

Austin 0.55"

Aultura 0.29"

Red Wing 0.29"

Winona 0.25"

Kellogg 0.24"

Wabasha 0.23"

Harmony 0.23"

Grand Meadow 0.18"

Preston 0.10"

Cannon Falls 0.10"

Dodge Center 0.09"