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March 27, 2009 - MPR’s Tim Nelson spent some time at the weather service's River Forecast Center in Chanhassen today, to follow the floods upstream in the Red River Valley. The story of the floods that threaten southeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota started long ago, according to the National Weather Service.
July 2, 2009 - MPR’s Stepanie Hemphil visits the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to see the landscape a decade after devasting blowdown. Ten years after millions of trees blew down in Minnesota's pristine Boundary Waters Wilderness, the forest is in the midst of a comeback. Segment includes recollections from guide who experienced storm first hand.
August 19, 2009 - MPR’s Brandt Williams reports on a tornado that touched down in Minneapolis, causing damage to a church and briefly closing Interstate 35W due to flooding.
August 21, 2009 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Mark Seeley, meteorologist at the University of Minnesota, about sudden changes in the summer weather. Areas of the state went form drought conditions to record breaking rainfall in a span of a week. Unexpected tornadoes in the Twin Cities are also discussed.
June 18, 2010 - MPR’s Tim Nelson reports on the damage, death, and havoc left behind after tornadoes struck areas of southern Minnesota. The severe weather knocked out power and devastated a handful of farms near Albert Lea. For some, their livelihoods were all but wiped out by the storm.
June 18, 2010 - MPR’s Tom Crann talks with meteorologist Paul Huttner about dozens of tornadoes that swept across the state on June 17th. Huttner details what transpired to create the conditions for such an extreme weather scenario.
August 12, 2010 - MPR’s Bob Kelleher reports from the shore of Lake Superior, where the water has reached record high temperatures during the summer of 2010. Kelleher talks with officials on what is causing the warm water and its potential impact.
September 23, 2010 - MPR’s Elizabeth Baier reports on flooding conditions in Owatonna and Medford, where heavy rains and flash flooding inundated streets, as residents and officials prepared for more torrential rains overnight.
December 13, 2010 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Bill Lester, executive director of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, about the status of Metrodome after roof collapse from heavy snow on December 12, 2010.
May 23, 2011 - MPR’s Tom Crann interviews Sarah Heller, who lives in the Webber-Camden neighborhood in northwest Minneapolis, where a deadly tornado struck. Heller recounts the actual tornado and the wreckage it left in its wake.