North Dakota Agriculture Weather Network

Witnesses Begin Testifying Second Day of Trial for Human Smuggling Case

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — Prosecutors say Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand put financial profit over human life when they attempted to smuggle migrants from India across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota over five weeks. Daryl Ritchison, a climatologist and director of the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network, testified that temperatures were abnormally cold that January morning with wind chills…

Tornado Touches Down Near Tappen, N.D.

Video Shows Nearly Entire Life Span of the Tornado

Tappen, N.D. (KVRR) – A Tornado Warning was issued for parts of Kidder County, N.D. around 4:45 pm Wednesday. Law enforcement and other weather spotters reported a tornado that lasted for about 10 minutes about 7 miles east of Tappen and about 8 miles west of Medina.  The tornado appeared to stay over open country and no injuries or damage…