A brief but impactful band of light freezing rain and snow created hazardous travel conditions across much of central and eastern Minnesota on Tuesday morning.

Despite significant damage following a three-vehicle crash at a busy Apple Valley intersection on Wednesday afternoon, there were no reported injuries, and one driver was cited.

What began as a forecast calling for a modest 2 to 4 inches of snowfall turned into a much more impactful winter event across the Twin Cities metro, as a powerful deformation band parked itself over the region on Wednesday and persisted into early Thursday morning.