While parts of the region got rain and were under various weather watches and warnings Tuesday, an area between Porter and Taunton in Yellow Medicine and Lincoln counties received hail and more than 3 inches of rain in about two hours.

Arlene Jerzak and her husband Henry lost about 100 acres of soybeans, she said.

Dan Dybsetter and his son Eric plan to replant about 65 acres of sunflowers.

"Ours was mostly corn," Dybsetter said. "We have one field of sunflowers we will probably replace. I suppose it was about 500 acres total involved."

They will evaluate the other damaged sunflower acres in a few days to learn if they need to replant those, Dybsetter said.

The damaged corn can't be replanted, but farmers believe that corn may recover.

"We think the corn will come back," Jerzak said.

Jerzak said a number of neighbors in a strip from near Porter to Taunton had heavy rain and crops damaged by hail. The Jerzak's home place is about one half mile east of Porter and just over a mile south, she said.

"On our home place, we didn't have it (as bad)," Jerzak said.

There were some bruised soybeans on the home farm, but acres they own away from the home farm were hit worse, she said.

Jerzak figured the storm hit hardest about two miles west of their farm and went another two miles and "all the way to Taunton. It was bad.'

Michael Boulton, who works and lives on the family farm along Minnesota Highway 68 near Porter, said some of their fields had about 3 1/2 inches of rain in about 2 1/2 hours.

"For almost 45 minutes we had steady hail," Boulton said. "It was nothing real big - pea to cherry-sized hail."

The family garden took the brunt of the hail damage, Boulton said.

Boulton said some corn fields had ponds of water in them yet Wednesday morning but he, too, thought corn would recover from water and hail.

"The rain helped us more than the hail hurt," Boulton said. "My dad and I drove around after the rain let up. In one of our fields, west of Porter, I had never seen a river come out of the waterway like I did (that night)."

The grass waterway is designed to take excess water from a field and Wednesday night, the water flowed through the waterway like a river, Boulton said. "It was pretty amazing," Boulton said.

"I can't remember the last time we had three inches of rain in a two-hour period," Boulton said. "It's been quite a few years."

While rain water created ponds in some fields and flowed like a river in Boulton field waterway, the water disappeared quickly Wednesday.

"We were very dry," Dybsetter said. "The water soaked into the dry ground well."