Powerful winds from back-to-back storms on Sunday night and Monday night knocked out the lights and air conditioning inside about 300,000 homes across the Midwest.

After Xcel Energy worked to restore power to a majority of customers who lost electricity during Sunday night's severe weather across, Monday night's storms caused another spike in outages.

Xcel Energy reported more than 2,500 power outages in and around the Twin Cities on Tuesday morning, impacting more than 71,000 residents, following powerful Monday night thunderstorms that downed branches across the state.