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This Sunday, April 30, will mark the 50th anniversary of what's been called Black Sunday in Minnesota. On that date in 1967 about 21 tornadoes broke out in Iowa and Southern Minnesota. It still isn't certain whether some tornadoes happened back to back or were actually one tornado with a brief lull in between...

The final topic for Minnesota Severe Weather Awareness week is heat waves. In recent years excessive heat has caused more deaths than all other weather events, including floods. A heat wave is a prolonged period of excessive heat, often combined with excessive humidity...

Every week during the growing season the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca releases a weather and crop update. Air temperatures this past week averaged 55.1 degrees, which was 8.6 degrees above normal. That was a bit surprising because it sure seemed like it was cool last week...

Today is Tornado Drill Day during Minnesota Severe Weather Awareness week. According to information from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Homeland Security and Emergency Management and National Weather Service, that means tornado drills will be conducted across the state...

The Wednesday weather topic during Minnesota Severe Weather Awareness week is an event our area is all to familiar with: flooding. Two of the past three years we've experienced this type of weather locally. Nationally, floods claim nearly 200 lives each year and force 300,000 people from their homes...

During Minnesota Severe Weather Awareness Week today we tackle storms, hail and lightning. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety tells us all thunderstorms are dangerous. Severe thunderstorms produce large hail and damaging winds of at least 58 mph...

Homeland Security and Emergency Management (a division of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety) has designated April 17-21 Severe Weather Awareness Week in Minnesota. Each day a different topic will be addressed courtesy of those agencies and the National Weather Service...

The KDHL AM Minnesota program has been expanded to an hour Thursday morning at 9:30 and will be replayed Monday night at 7 for those who can't listen during the day. Next week is Severe Weather Awareness Week in Minnesota, as designated by Homeland Security and Emergency Management...

With Minnesota experiencing the earliest tornadoes ever on March 6 in Zimmerman and Clarks Grove, I thought I'd just do a bit of poking around in regards to which states get the most. First we'll start in Minneapolis/St.Paul. Between 1950 and 2013 the busiest month for tornadoes has been July with 20, followed by May with 17...

This morning the National Weather Service confirmed that the state of Minnesota had experienced its earliest tornado ever. A touchdown near Zimmerman in Sherburne County occurred about 6:15PM Monday. The earliest Minnesota had experienced a tornado before was March 18, 1968, near St...