After a night of heavy rains, 55 mph winds and 1 1/2 inch hail, many Golden Valley County residents spent Monday rounding up fallen tree limbs on rooftops, yards and streets.

Sheriff Dalane Stedman said he estimated the total damage, including private property, to be about $1 million for the county. Almost the entire county was without power from about 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sunday.

Western and central North Dakota areas got a mix-and-match bout of severe weather Sunday night and Monday morning, with some property damage and power outages, but no injury reports.

Areas like Bismarck got rain, thunder and lightning, while some towns got high winds and lighting but little rain, and others got the rain-lighting-wind package, plus scattered hail.

Janine Vining, meteorologist with the Bismarck Weather Service, said Bismarck got varying rainfall reports, anywhere from a few hundreds to more than an inch. Monday's rain brought the yearly total to 8.94 inches of rain compared with the local average of 9.14.

"We're not too far off," she said.

Several other locations reported more than an inch of heavy rainfall. A location seven miles north of Menoken reported 1.95 inches of rain, she said. Drake received 1.03, Mohall received 1.25 inches and Tolley received 1.45 inches. The Mandan Research Center reported 1.31 inches of rain and small hail.

Rainfall drained mud from a construction site near the the Waterford living community at 1000 W. Century Ave, spilling the muck over the street. Drivers traveling on West Century Avenue had to plow through about 2 inches of mud during the morning drive.

Construction foreman Tom Todd said Northern Improvement, which owns the site, quickly swept and washed the mud away.

"Northern was here right away in the morning and had it all cleaned up by nine o'clock," he said.

Todd said the mud, dried to a thin layer of dust after the cleanup and sunshine, didn't cause traffic disruptions.

Rainfall didn't cause problems in Beulah Monday morning - the wind was enough to do that.

"What rain we got wasn't even worth it," said Lorne Hammer, public works director.

But winds knocked down a number of branches, including one that downed a power line and pole.

Hammer said a few homes and businesses were without power from about 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., when the power was rerouted from another source. Power was switched back at about 9:30 a.m.

High winds downed trees in other towns and counties as well. Vining said the highest reported winds were 81 mph at Powers Lake in Burke County. Unofficial reports put 98 mph winds at Mohall. Ward County had winds in the 70s.

More reports were trickling to the weather service Monday afternoon, and Vining said the service was considering visiting the hardest-hit areas to get further assessments.

(Reach Laura Schreier at 701-355-8809 or lschreier@ndonline.com)