Nearly every county in North Dakota was under some kind of severe storm warning between Sunday night and early Monday morning.

Harlyn Wetzel, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said tornados were spotted 10 miles east of Mott, 25 miles west of Fort Yates and 45 miles south of Mandan along the Cannonball River.

"We had reports all over the state last night," Wetzel said. "The southwest and central portions were hit pretty hard."

Bowman reported golf ball-sized hail, and Morton County experienced wind gusts up to 76 mph. In Minot, the underpasses were flooded and there was water over some country roads.

Some of the most severe storm damage was near Tuttle, where strong winds destroyed a barn belonging to Anthony and Corinne Fitterer.

"It is completely destroyed," Corinne Fitterer said of the barn on their property two miles south of Tuttle.

At around 10 p.m. she was on the phone with her sister who had heard severe storm warnings when she looked out and saw strong winds.

Corinne Fitterer said she was not sure if it was a tornado or just strong winds that did the damage. She also heard hail, but did not see what size it was.

"After I looked out and saw things flying around I wasn't going to stand out there and look," she said. "I wanted to get right to the basement."

She said her husband and their daughter Elizabeth, 17, heard a whistling noise right before they took shelter.

The three stayed in the basement for about 15 minutes along with the Fitterers' 16-year-old son, Nathan. Corinne Fitterer said after they came up from the basement, the only severe weather they saw the rest of the night was some lightning.

Monday morning, after surveying the damage, the Fitterers found several uprooted trees and a hood torn off an old pick-up.

Corinne said the family has some belongings inside the barn, but they have not tried to go inside.

"It's not stable," she said. "One side is completely collapsed."

In the Cooperstown area, rancher Norm Tafelmeyer said a fast-moving storm left him with broken windows, damaged buildings and trees down everywhere.

"We had a lot of trees surrounding our house and everything fell away from the house," Tafelmeyer said after the heavy rain and high winds hit early Monday.

The storm seemed to come out of the blue, he said.

"It just came in a rush, and before we knew it, the power was out, and it lasted about 15 or 20 minutes," he said. "It sounded like a freight train there for a while … we figured it was straight-line winds."

Griggs County emergency manager Bob Hook said the storm hit just after midnight. A radar station near Finley measured wind gusts of more than 100 mph, he said.

It was the second straight weekend of 100 mph winds in North Dakota, and it came as officials were still tallying up the damage from the previous weekend's storm.

Most of the recent damage was in a 10-mile corridor stretching from Binford south to Hannaford, Hook said.

"There's a whole pile of trees in back of City Hall. I'm sure the guys have been out (clearing downed trees) early this morning," Cooperstown City Auditor Diane Cowdrey said Monday. "It's a pretty good-size pile."

The Devils Lake area reported 2.26 inches of rain and 70 mph winds, just two days after the area was hit by heavy rain and 84 mph winds. Thursday's storm pushed a small plane on top of another one at the Devils Lake airport.

At the North Dakota National Guard's Camp Grafton south of Devils Lake, wind damaged trees and building roofs, Col. Dave Anderson said.

"Trees are blocking some of the streets there," he said. "We'll spend the next few days just cleaning up."

West of Minot, part of U.S. 52 near Carpio was closed due to flooding. Greg Olson, project manager for the state Transportation Department, said runoff from area fields washed out two temporary bypass roads set up while the main road is rebuilt.

"We're at a standstill now," he said. "We'll be set back another week, I'm sure."

In the southeastern part of the state, Richland County Commissioners issued a disaster declaration. They said some parts of the county have had more than 12 inches of rain during the past month.

The National Weather Service said the severe weather is expected to continue throughout the week.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report. Reach reporter Katie Brown at 250-8225 or cops@bismarcktribune.net.)