Golf ball-sized hailstones smash car windows west of Detroit Lakes, Minn. during storm
Hailstones the size of golf balls and small baseballs smashed car windows west of Detroit Lakes this afternoon. A half-dozen cars in one parking lot had windows broken out by the hailstones.By: Forum Communications Report, The Jamestown Sun
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Hailstones the size of golf balls and small baseballs smashed car windows west of Detroit Lakes this afternoon.
A half-dozen cars in one parking lot had windows broken out by the hailstones.
The storm was freakish in that one car would have serious damage, with multiple broken windows, deep dents and even hanging interior lights — while one next to it seemed to have sustained little damage.
Detroit Lakes itself apparently received mostly pea-sized hail, but reports were received of larger hailstones in the Audubon, Cormorant and Rochert, Minn., areas.
Kelly Shannon, of the Becker County Sheriff’s Office, said he observed a vehicle driven by a woman on Highway 59 south with a severely cracked “spiderwebbed” windshield and a rear window that was completely broken out.
No injuries were reported from the hail or the severe thunderstorm that passed though the area late in the afternoon, he said.
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