MPR’s Laura McCallum reports on severe storms that rolled through the state the night of May 30th. The storms dumped hail in central Minnesota and roared through the Twin Cities, snapping trees in half and downing power lines. One particularly hard-hit area was South Saint Paul, with 80 mph winds measured.

The May 30th, 1998 storms were part of a larger weather event called The Southern Great Lakes Derecho of 1998, which traveled 975 miles from southern Minnesota to north central New York in 15 hours, with an average speed of 65 mph.