Strong storm dumps rain and hail — on Walmart checkout lanes, Wisconsin videos show
A Walmart store was forced to temporarily close as a storm dumped heavy rain and large hail onto its checkout lanes and registers.
The town of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, received tennis ball-sized hail during the storm Wednesday, July 19, according to the National Weather Service. Some of the storm’s contents came crashing down into the town’s Walmart when the hail broke a window in the roof, video from Olson Ging shows.
A second video obtained by WLBT shows the glass from the window falling onto the floor of the store, which appeared mostly empty.
“Oh my god,” a woman is heard saying in the video as she pans to the broken window.
The Walmart store said Thursday it would be closed for cleanup. There were no reports of injuries.
The storm, which also blew through Minnesota, produced 60 mph wind gusts, the National Weather Service said.
Additional photos and video show the aftermath of the storm, including a parking lot being covered in hail.
Rice Lake is about 100 miles northeast of Minneapolis.