Jamestown (CSi)  The line of thunderstorms in that began forming in western North Dakota Monday afternoon arrived in the Jamestown and Valley City areas from 7-p.m. to about 9-p.m.

There were widespread reports of tree damage in the state, along with hail and several inches of rain.

Some of the initial storm reports indicated some structure damage due to straight line winds and a possible tornado in Foster County, and Kensal in Stutsman County, in the  7-p.m. hour.

During the storm high wind overturned a semi and trailer, on I-94 west of Valley City.     A semitrailer was blown over Monday night on U.S. Highway 281 north of Jamestown, where winds were clocked at about 75 mph.

Otter Tail Power officials say in Jamestown, the power was  off  starting at about 8:17 p.m. in a section  north of the railroad tracks and was restored at about 8:50 p.m.

20 area communities served by Otter Tail Power were affected by outages stemming from downed power lines caused by high wind, or lightning strikes Monday evening.

High wind downed power lines Monday evening in the Hurdsfield and Tuttle areas, as crews were sent to the scenes to restore power.  Carrington and Finley also experienced power outages. The city of Bordulac reoported high wind and hail damage.  At least five farmsteads between Grace City and Bordulac suffered damage to buildings and grain bins.

The Jamestown Weather station reported a peak wind gust of 48 mph in the 8-p.m. hour.

The official Jamestown rainfall between 7-p.m. and 9-p.m. was .22 of an inch, .25 of an inch on the CSi weather computer in downtown Jamestown.

The storm system  moved east to Barnes and Cass Counties.

Other areas reporting large hail, strong straight line winds or tornadoes in northeast North Dakota, into west central and northwest Minnesota.  Flash Flooding was also reported in Grand Forks.

After the storm late Monday evening, gusty wind continued in the Jamestown area, as the severe thundestomr watch was allowed to expire before the original  experation time of 11-p.m.