UPDATE: 70 MPH Wind Gusts, Power Outages Reported

ST. CLOUD - Several hundred Xcel Energy customers in south St. Cloud are without power Tuesday morning. Xcel says nearly 2,000 of their St. Cloud customers do not have electricity.

Additionally, about two dozen Cold Spring customers and about  35 Sauk Rapids homes are also without power.

The National Weather Service was reporting 30 to 50 mile an hour wind gusts this morning, as a rain system moved through the area.  A High Wind Warning is in effect until 1:00 p.m. Tuesday.