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A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3-AM CDT THURSDAY
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
ADAMS BENSON BURLEIGH
CAVALIER DICKEY EDDY
EMMONS FOSTER GRANT
HETTINGER KIDDER LAMOURE
LOGAN MCINTOSH MCLEAN
MERCER MORTON OLIVER
RAMSEY SHERIDAN SIOUX
STUTSMAN TOWNER WELLS
BARNES CASS GRAND FORKS
GRIGGS NELSON PEMBINA
STEELE TRAILL WALSH
…EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/
THIS EVENING…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED AN EXCESSIVE
HEAT WARNING…WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THIS
EVENING. THE HEAT ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
* TEMPERATURE…HIGHS 95 TO 100.
* HEAT INDEX…UP TO 110 DEGREES.
* IMPACTS…HEAT RELATED ILLNESS IS LIKELY IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT
TAKEN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
YOUNG CHILDREN AND PETS SHOULD NEVER BE LEFT UNATTENDED IN
VEHICLES UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE DURING
WARM OR HOT WEATHER WHEN CAR INTERIORS CAN REACH LETHAL
TEMPERATURES IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.
Forecast... Jamestown Area... ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 400 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME
THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL IN THE
EVENING. LOWS IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTH WINDS AROUND 10 MPH
SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
20 PERCENT. HEAT INDEX 95 TO 100.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS AROUND 90. NORTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. EAST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 90S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. LOWS IN THE MID
60S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS AROUND 60.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
LOWS AROUND 60.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. HIGHS IN THE
MID 80S.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. IF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP SOME COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SOME
SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Hail as big as baseballs pounded parts of Pembina and Walsh counties. KFGO radio reports the Tuesday night storm also downed trees in Minto and Grafton, and flipped a utility trailer in the Ardoch area. Street flooding was reported in Grand Forks. WDAZ-TV reports that several vehicles got caught in flash flooding, including a van that got stuck in several feet of water underneath a railroad overpass. The Fire Department used a boat to rescue that motorist.
Bismarck (CSi PPR) A big new wind farm is proposed for Barnes County. It would be 300 megawatts, and it would be called the “Glacier Ridge Wind Farm.”
Prairie Public Radio reports the wind farm would be on 34,450 acres about five miles northeast of Valley City. And it would consist of up to 87 turbines.
North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Brian Kalk says the PSC just received the application.
The company wants to start construction by November. Kalk says the PSC will call for a public hearing on the proposal, once it’s deemed the filing is complete.
Barnes County is already home to three wind farms – Ashtabula One, Two, and Three.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s State Health Council will redo an August 2015 meeting during which it approved new rules for radioactive waste, in the wake of a lawsuit.
Environmental groups sued in April, alleging the meeting was held illegally. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem had issued an opinion in March saying the council violated state law by not providing adequate notice of the meeting.
The North Dakota Energy Industry Waste Coalition and the Dakota Resource Council want a judge to void the new rules allowing certain landfills to accept waste with higher levels of radioactivity.
The Bismarck Tribune reports the council on Aug. 9 will conduct the meeting again and consider ratifying the decisions made a year ago.
Plaintiff’s attorney Sarah Vogel thinks the council is trying to make the lawsuit moot.
In sports…
Jamestown (CSi) University of Jamestown head men’s track and field coach Ed Crawford announces the signing of Brady Carlson of Jamestown, N.D., who will join the Jimmie track and field team in the fall of 2016.
Carlson, a 2016 graduate of Jamestown High School, was a member of the fourth-place 4 x 400 meter relay team and placed 8th in the 400 meter dash at the North Dakota state track meet this spring.
Crawford says, “I’m really happy to have Brady run at the University of Jamestown. Being a Wilson Scholarship winner, he’s a very smart young man who I want as part of my team. He is a fantastic sprinter who has great range between 100 meters to 400 meters and will help us get to nationals in the relays and open events. I’m excited to see him do great things in the classroom and on the track for UJ.”
Brady also competed in soccer at JHS and was named to the All-WDA team in 2015. He will major in Mechanical Engineering at UJ.
He is the son of Ryan Carlson and Leah Carlson of Jamestown.
DETROIT (AP) – Max Kepler and Eddie Rosario homered off Francisco Rodriguez in the ninth, and the Minnesota Twins scored three runs in the inning to beat the Detroit Tigers 4-1 on Wednesday.
Detroit wasted a fine start by Justin Verlander, who gave up a run and two hits in eight innings. Rodriguez (1-1) retired the first two batters of the ninth before Kepler sent a drive to right field to break the 1-all tie.
Rodriguez then made a throwing error and appeared to be shaken up, but after a conference at the mound he stayed in the game and allowed a two-run shot by Rosario.
Ryan Pressly (3-5) earned the win in relief, and Brandon Kintzler pitched the ninth for his sixth save.
Minnesota’s Joe Mauer and Detroit’s Ian Kinsler homered in the first inning, and that was all the scoring until the ninth.
The last-place Twins took two of three from the playoff-chasing Tigers, with Detroit managing only four runs in the series.
Verlander struck out nine and walked two. Minnesota’s Ervin Santana allowed one run and six hits in seven-plus innings.
Santana hadn’t allowed a homer since June 19, but Kinsler sent his first pitch of the game over the fence in left, tying the score at 1. The Tigers had only one more baserunner through five innings, then squandered opportunities in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth.
Detroit had runners on first and second and nobody out in the sixth when Cameron Maybin hit into a double play. The Tigers had men on second and third in the seventh when James McCann flied out to end the inning. With two on and two out in the eighth, Victor Martinez sent a drive to left-center, but Rosario made a running catch before bouncing off the wall.
Detroit had two hits in the ninth but didn’t score.
There was a delay in the seventh when a fan ran onto the field and eluded security for a while. He eventually stopped around the edge of the infield and was tackled.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Tigers: RHP Jordan Zimmermann (right neck strain) is expected to throw a bullpen session Thursday, and manager Brad Ausmus says if that goes well, he’ll probably go on a rehab assignment Sunday. … OF Tyler Collins was scratched before the game because of neck spasms.
UP NEXT
Twins: RHP Tyler Duffey (5-6) takes the mound Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series at Boston. Steven Wright (11-5) starts for the Red Sox.
Tigers: RHP Mike Pelfrey (2-9) starts the opener of a four-game set against the White Sox in Chicago. Pelfrey did not make it out of the second inning Saturday.
In world and national news…
CLEVELAND (AP) – Donald Trump has arrived in Cleveland to accept the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night. His plane landed Wdnesday at an airstrip near Lake Erie — and Trump then took a helicopter to a landing field at the Great Lakes Science Center a short distance from the convention site. Trump’s family, his running mate — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence — and some supporters were on hand to greet him. Amid swelling music, Trump and Pence thanked their supporters. Trump was at the convention Monday to introduce his wife Melania but then returned to New York.
WASHINGTON (AP) – White House spokesman Josh Earnest says passages that were incorporated into Melania Trump’s convention speech from Michelle Obama’s convention speech in 2008 show that Americans admire similar values in their political leaders. He was reacting to news that Meredith McIver, a Trump Organization staff writer, says she made a mistake in including the passages. Earnest says that admiring the same values shows the nation isn’t as divided as it may seem. That’s a point made recently by President Barack Obama.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The top Republican in the Kansas Senate says President Barack Obama has “stoked the flames of anger and hostility” toward law enforcement officers. Senate President Susan Wagle made her comments as Kansas officials expressed sadness over the shooting death of a Kansas City, Kansas, police captain. Wagle cited Obama’s public comments about shootings by police in Minnesota and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which were followed by deadly attacks on officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge. She says Obama has painted law enforcement officers as “people of bias.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – Secretary of State John Kerry is calling on Turkey to provide hard evidence that a U.S.-based cleric was behind a foiled coup attempt last weekend if it wants him extradited. Kerry said today that mere allegations of wrongdoing against Fethullah Gulen (FEH’-too-lah goo-LEN’) would not meet U.S. extradition requirements. He said he had made that clear in several phone calls with Turkey’s foreign minister in recent days.
CHICAGO (AP) – High temperatures and humidity will bake much of the central U.S. this week, sending heat indexes soaring as high as 115 degrees in some places for the first time this year. The National Weather Service says the high pressure system, sometimes called a “heat dome,” will push conditions to their hottest point this summer, though temperatures will stay short of records. Authorities from Minnesota to Louisiana are warning people to take precautions and check on the elderly and other vulnerable neighbors and relatives.
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