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Today’s Severe Weather Awareness Week topic is Extreme Heat. Heat-related deaths account for more deaths on an average year in the United States than floods, tornadoes, lightning, and hurricanes combined. There are three types of heat warnings indicted by the National Weather Service using the Heat Index explains Crookston Firefighter Chris Klawitter. “The National Weather […]
The National Weather Service is canceling the tornado drill watch/warnings for Minnesota for Thursday, April 11. The NWS will not be issuing any test tornado watches/warnings for anywhere in Minnesota on Thursday, April 11. The cancellation is due to the very strong snowstorm set to arrive later Wednesday. Blizzard warnings are already in effect for
The National Weather Service announced today that they have determined the Red Lake River crested in Crookston Monday evening at 24.66 feet. The river has dropped two feet since then to 22.65 feet at 11:30 a.m. today. The 24.66-foot crest is the 11th highest crest on record in Crookston. The Crookston Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
The Red Lake Watershed District will close the Schirrick Dam gates on the Black River at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 10. This is being done as a measure to reduce flood flows and stages downstream on the Red Lake River and the Red River of the North. Owners of property within the reservoir are
The Tuesday topic for Severe Weather Awareness Week is Severe Storms, Lightning, and Hail. Warm, humid conditions are favorable to storm development and storms typically are small producing heavy rain and wind over a relatively small area for a brief period of time explains Crookston Firefighter Justin Johnson. “They are relatively small, about 15 miles
The Monday topic for Severe Weather Awareness Week is Weather Alerts and Warnings. In the past 10 years, more than 55 people have died and dozens more were injured as a result of weather-related events in Minnesota, not including motor vehicles. Severe weather alerts are issued by the National Weather Service. There are three
