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…FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA…
INCLUDES STUTSMAN & BARNES COUNTIES AND SURROUNDING AREAS.
The National Weather Service in Bismarck has issued a Fire
Weather Watch for wind and low relative humidity, which is in
effect from Thursday morning through Thursday evening.
* WINDS…Sustained northwest around 30 mph with gusts up to 45
mph.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY…As low as 15 percent.
* AFFECTED AREA…All of western and central North Dakota.
* IMPACTS…Any fires that ignite will spread rapidly and become
difficult to control or suppress.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible
Red Flag Warnings.
Forecast…
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY…Sunny, windy. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph increasing to 20 to
30 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain showers
possibly mixed with snow showers in the morning. Highs in the
lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY…Cloudy. Rain showers possibly mixed with snow showers
in the morning, then chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers in the
evening, then chance of rain showers and snow showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.
The weather pattern becomes much wetter beginning Friday afternoon
Expect widespread rain Friday evening through Saturday morning.
Some wet snow may mix in Friday night and early Saturday morning,
as temperatures fall below freezing.
After a lull in the precipitation Saturday afternoon,
Saturday evening another widespread round of
rain, ending Sunday night. Some wet snow may also mix in with this
round of precipitation as well.
Flood updates and water level updates for the …
Sheyenne River Level Through Valley City
James River level through Jamestown.
Water amounts in the snow pack
The Latest Flood Warnings from The National Weather Service
https://ndresponse.gov/flood-region
During the flood of 2009, the level of the water behind the Jamestown Dam reached historic level, and began to go into the overflow structure – the Glory Hole – on April 24, 2009. This is video from that day as recorded by CSi TV – The Replay Channel.
The rest area located on westbound I-94 approximately seven miles west of Medina is temporarily closed until further notice for maintenance work.
Jamestown (CSi-4-24-19) Jamestown Police Warns residents of a High Risk Sex Offender who has changed address.
Sawyer Suko now resides at 1012 10th Street, SE, No. 15, Jamestown, ND.
He presently has no vehicle.
Suko is a 25 year old white male, five feet eight inches tall, weighing 140 pounds with hazel eyes and brown hair.
He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
Offense: When he was 18 he had sex with a 13 year old girl, when she was intoxicated.
Conviction Date: January 2012, Stutsman County, ND, District Court.
Disposition: One year, one day, 285 days suspended, five years supervised probation.
Suko is not wanted by police at this time and has served the sentence imposed by the court.
This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.
Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.
Printed handouts of the demographics of Suko are available at the Jamestown Police Department.
More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov
Tappen (NDHP) The North Dakota Highway patrol reports a one vehicle rollover crash north of Tappen,on Wednesday about 7:39-a.m., killed a 38 year old Strasburg woman.
The report says, a 2005 Chrysler Town & Country minivan left the roadway and entered the median on eastbound Interstate 94 near mile marker 214. The driver steered back to the roadway and the minivan rolled and came to a stop in the ditch.
The driver was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.. The driver was not wearing a seat belt and no vehicle airbags deployed.
The name of the driver will be released Thursday pending notification of relatives.
The patrol is investigating the crash.
Assisting the Highway Patrol at the scene were: The Steele Police Department, Kidder County Sheriff’s Office, Kidder County Ambulance, Steele Fire Department and Sanford AirMed.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Energy industry officials say a new estimate of recoverable oil in North Dakota and the surrounding area needs to take into account more crude formations and rapidly advancing technology.
The U.S. Geological Survey has begun updating its estimate of oil resources in the Williston Basin in North Dakota, eastern Montana and northwestern South Dakota. Program Coordinator Walter Guidroz told state and industry officials Wednesday it should be done by year’s end.
The USGS in 2013 estimated 7.4 billion barrels of oil could be recovered from the basin’s Bakken and Three Forks shale formations. State Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms says there are 17 other, smaller formations that also show potential with new technology.
North Dakota already produces more than a million barrels of oil daily — about 12 percent of U.S. production.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Gov. Doug Burgum has temporarily loosened driving restrictions for truckers who haul anhydrous ammonia fertilizer.
Burgum says the executive order is needed because North Dakota farmers are facing a delayed spring planting season, which means they have a shorter time frame for seeding and fertilizing fields.
Cold, wet conditions in other parts of the Midwest also have compressed the planting season and increased demand for fertilizer.
Waiving hours-of-service restrictions enables truckers to haul greater amounts of fertilizer in shorter periods of time. Burgum’s order remains in effect through May.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The cause of a huge fire that destroyed a warehouse in Grand Forks last week has been classified as undetermined.
KFGO says the fire marshal’s investigation was hampered by the structural condition of the 3G Ventures warehouse and the extensive amount of damage.
The fire marshal’s report says one possible cause is failure of electrical equipment, but even with high definition images taken with a drone, an exact cause could not be pinpointed. The 10-thousand square-foot steel warehouse stored computer servers.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Soil moisture continues to be in good supply in North Dakota as the heart of the spring planting season nears.
The Agriculture Department in its weekly crop report says topsoil moisture statewide is rated 91% adequate to surplus and subsoil moisture is 80% in those categories.
The report says Monday is expected to be the date that farmers on average get into the field.
The winter wheat crop and cattle and calf conditions both are rated mostly fair to good.
Hay and stock water supplies both are rated mostly adequate.
In sports…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s walleye record has fallen for the second time in less than a year.
The state Game and Fish Department says Lincoln angler Tom Volk on April 21 was shore-fishing the Heart River in Mandan when he hauled in a 16-pound, 9-ounce walleye.
It broke the record set last May when Neal Leier of Bismarck caught a 15-pound, 13-ounce walleye from the Missouri River.
Before Leier’s fish, North Dakota’s walleye record had stood for nearly six decades.
In sports…
(VCSU) The Valley City State softball team continued its climb up the national rankings on Tuesday, moving up one spot to No. 7 in the nation.
Valley City State (38-3, 18-2 NSAA) received 428 poll points in the latest NAIA Top 25 Coaches’ Poll released on Tuesday. The No. 7 ranking is the highest in program history, improving upon the No. 8 ranking back on April 9.
Complete Top 25 Poll – April 23
The Vikings are coming off a four-game series sweep at Waldorf University last weekend. In that series, Tatum Lundin set the school’s career home run record (currently 23) and pitcher Emily Smith set a single-season wins record with her 23rd win of the year.
VCSU plays Mayville State in mid-week games Tuesday and Wednesday this week, and then closes the 2019 regular season on Saturday and Sunday at Presentation College. Wednesday’s games against Mayville State will be played at 3 p.m. in Valley City.
Science & Arts (Okla.) continues to top the national poll as they improved to 49-0 last week. Marian (Ind.) is ranked No. 2 with a 40-0 record.
In world and national news…
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A British security official has confirmed a report identifying one of the Sri Lanka suicide bombers as a man who studied in Britain between 2006 and 2007.
The official confirmed a report by Sky News identifying the man as Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed.
The official said Wednesday that British intelligence officers were not watching Mohamed during his stay in the country. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the investigation.
The Easter Sunday suicide bombings at churches and hotels killed over 350 people and injured 500.
The dead included people from at least 12 countries.
NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — On Sunday, 43-year-old Anusha Kumari was left childless and a widow when suicide bombers launched a coordinated attack on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.
More than 350 people were killed in the near-simultaneous bombings. About a third of the victims were celebrating Easter Mass at St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo.
Kumari lost her daughter, son, husband, sister-in-law and two nieces.
They were buried three days later on some vacant land near the stricken church that has quickly become a cemetery for some of the bombing victims.
Sri Lanka’s president has asked for the resignations of the defense secretary and national police chief after acknowledging that some intelligence units were aware of threats to churches before the Easter bombings.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has stepped out of his khaki-green armored train in far-eastern Russia, smiling and upbeat ahead of a much-anticipated summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin
The summit Thursday comes amid deadlocked global diplomacy over North Korewa’s nuclear program.
Dressed in a black coat and a fedora, Kim first met Wednesday with Russian officials at Russia’s Khasan train station near its border with North Korea before traveling on to Russia’s Pacific port city of Vladivostok for a summit Thursday with Putin.
Speaking to Russia’s state-owned Rossiya-24, Kim said he’s hoping for a “successful and useful” visit and would like to discuss with Putin the “settlement of the situation in the Korean Peninsula” as well as bilateral ties with Russia.
It was his first visit to Russia as North Korean leader; his late father, Kim Jong Il, visited Russia in 2011.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his White House will be “fighting all the subpoenas” issued by House Democrats in their investigations into his administration.
Trump is criticizing those investigations and telling reporters at the White House that he “thought after two years we’d be finished with it.”
Democrats have stepped up their inquiries in the aftermath of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
Trump says “it’s enough” and that “we’re fighting all the subpoenas.”
One congressional subpoena the administration is expected to challenge has gone out to Don McGahn, former White House counsel who cooperated with Mueller.
And the White House is pushing back on other fronts, including House Democratic efforts to obtain Trump’s tax returns and his business’ financial records.
(AP) The National Rifle Association is gathering this week for its annual meeting amid inner turmoil the likes of which have not been seen in decades.
The NRA is used to battling outside forces that criticize its vigorous efforts to protect gun rights. But these days, NRA insiders and longtime observers describe an organization at war with itself.
The central question: Has it strayed too far from its original mission of gun safety and outdoor shooting sports and become too political?
The 5-million-member organization is meeting in Indianapolis starting Thursday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is granting major exemptions to new sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlines the exemptions in notices published in the Federal Register. A ban on travel to the U.S. stemming from the designation of the Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization will not apply to officials of foreign governments or businesses that have dealings with the elite military unit or its subsidiaries.
The U.S. designated the force as a terrorist organization earlier this month.
U.S. law authorizes authorities to bar entry to the U.S. by anyone found to have provided “material support” to a terrorist organization.
Pompeo says the waivers are in the interests of U.S. national security, but they are likely to frustrate members of Congress who favor tough measures on Iran.
IXTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — The train known as “The Beast” is once again rumbling through the night loaded with people headed toward the U.S. border after a raid on a migrant caravan threatened to end the practice of massive highway marches through Mexico
A long freight train loaded with about 300 to 400 migrants pulled out of the southern city of Ixtepec on Tuesday. They sat atop rattling boxcars and clung precariously to ladders alongside the clanking couplings.
The northbound train carried migrants north for decades, despite its notorious dangers: People died or lost limbs falling from it. The practice faded after authorities started raiding the trains in mid-2014.
Now with police and immigration checkpoints dotting Mexico’s highways, many migrants now view the train as a surer way to reach the U.S. border.
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