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    December 26, 2018
    About 200 people were displaced from the Prairie View RV Park at Watford City when an EF2 tornado ripped through the housing camp on July 10, 2018. A newborn boy died from injuries sustained in the storm, and nine people were critically injured. Mike McCleary / Bismarck Tribune
    'I am so proud of where I live': Watford City residents rise to action after tornado
    WATFORD CITY, N.D. — Krystal Lapp can’t remember how long her family’s mobile home was airborne, but she can still recall the chaos when...
    news/weatherDecember 26, 2018 - 6:29pm
    July 25, 2018
    U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.
    Hoeven urges study of weather radar coverage after Watford City tornado
    WATFORD CITY, N.D.—Sen. John Hoeven pressed Wednesday for the National Weather Service to study gaps in weather radar coverage for western...
    news/weatherJuly 25, 2018 - 6:32pm
    July 16, 2018
    Liz Hartranft has been raising money since July 11 for the family in her karate class who lost everything in the tornado.
    Karate instructor starts fundraiser to help family who lost everything in Watford City tornado
    WATFORD CITY, N.D.—A mother, father and their three children lost their home and all of their belongings to a tornado in Watford City,...
    community/peopleJuly 16, 2018 - 5:58pm
    John Paul Martin, center, the warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Bismarck, talks on Tuesday, July 10, to Lt. Matthew Watkins and Capt. Mike Ficken, left, both of the McKenzie County Sheriff's Department, and McKenzie County Emergency Managers Karolin Jappy and Jerry Samuelson after determining an FE 2 tornado touched down in the early morning hours in Watford City. Mike McCleary / Bismarck Tribune
    Weather radar coverage for western ND questioned after tornado
    BISMARCK—Hours after a devastating tornado ripped through Watford City, McKenzie County's emergency manager began pushing for better weather...
    news/weatherJuly 16, 2018 - 6:00am
    July 15, 2018
    One of the many mobile homes and RVs ravaged from Tuesday's early morning EF2 tornado hitting the Prairie View RV Park in Watford City sits twisted in the scoria rock, ripped from its trailer frame. Mike McCleary / Bismarck Tribune
    Deadly tornado prompts call for improving RV park safety standards
    BISMARCK—In the aftermath of a deadly tornado that struck in the heart of North Dakota's oil patch, state and local officials are calling...
    news/weatherJuly 15, 2018 - 6:00am
    July 12, 2018
    Days after opening, Watford City hospital treats tornado victims
    BISMARCK -- When disaster struck, the hospital in Watford City was ready. On July 1, McKenzie County Healthcare Systems opened its $76.3 million facility, equipped with 24 inpatient rooms and nine rooms in the emergency department — about two and a half times the size of the old...
    business/healthcareJuly 12, 2018 - 6:32pm
    July 11, 2018
    A front-end loader dumps debris from the cleanup of the Prairie View RV Park in Watford City into a waiting truck. More than 200 trailers, cabins and RVs were destroyed or damages by an EF-2 tornado early Tuesday morning. Williston Herald
    Watford City starts cleanup after deadly tornado
    WATFORD CITY, N.D. — On Wednesday, July 11, more than 24 hours after a deadly EF-2 tornado touched down in Watford City, work was already...
    news/weatherJuly 11, 2018 - 7:13pm
    A row of trucks, some of them crushed by debris, sit parked in the storm-damaged Prairie View RV Park on Tuesday, July 10, in Watford City. Jamie Kelly / Williston Herald
    Thousands raised online for infant killed in western ND tornado
    WATFORD CITY, N.D.—Almost $18,000 has been raised for a one-week-old infant who died in the EF-2 tornado that hit the western North Dakota...
    news/weatherJuly 11, 2018 - 2:39pm
    A cat found in the rubble of a mobile home destroyed by Tuesday morning's tornado in Watford City rests in the arms of Andrew Anderson, a missionary helping the Red Cross, at the Prairie View RV Park Tuesday, July 10. Mike McCleary / Bismarck Tribune
    After tornado, helping hands reach out fast in Watford City
    WATFORD CITY — Less than 12 hours after a tornado struck Watford City, an American Red Cross emergency shelter was running out of space...
    news/weatherJuly 11, 2018 - 9:08am
    July 3, 2018
    Parts of SD tractor taken by twister found in Montana
    PIERRE, S.D.—Doug Davis finally found his tractor that had been swooped up by a tornado from his ranch in northwest South Dakota. Sort...
    news/weatherJuly 3, 2018 - 4:50pm
    May 21, 2018
    John Lohman 1957 tornado staff of The Forum
    John Lohman, believed last surviving member of Forum's 1957 Pulitzer-winning tornado coverage, dies at 82
    FARGO—John Lohman was 21 years old when his Forum news team won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Fargo's deadly 1957 tornado. He spent...
    newsMay 21, 2018 - 8:59pm
    August 27, 2017
    Rick Johnson talks about what it was like being mayor during the 2007 Northwood tornado. His business, much like the rest of the town, was heavily damaged during the EF4 torando that ripped through the city. Joshua Komer / Forum News Service
    Northwood is renewed but different 10 years after an EF4 tornado ripped through town
    NORTHWOOD, N.D.—As mayor of Northwood in 2007, Rick Johnson remembers the reaction of many people when city officials and others held a...
    newsAugust 27, 2017 - 6:27am
    July 12, 2017
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    Drone video reveals damage caused by high winds in Hillsboro area
    HILLSBORO, N.D. — Six F-M ambulances and four emergency response vehicles were seen racing north on Interstate 29 the evening of Tuesday, July...
    newsJuly 12, 2017 - 4:13pm
    June 10, 2017
    1957 tornado "Low Dropping Cloud." (Chet Gebert / Forum News Service)
    60 years later, Fargo's 1957 tornado still haunts
    FARGO—Ray Jensen had been keeping his trained eye on the increasingly ominous western sky for more than an hour when he saw a tornado descend...
    newsJune 10, 2017 - 11:00pm
    June 7, 2017
    Gilby, N.D., farmer Duane Hunter keeps an eye on storm clouds passing through the area Wednesday, June 7. Hunter received about an inch of rain while more than 2.5 inches fell west of Gilby.photo by Eric Hylden / Forum News Serviceplay button
    Tornadoes whip through valley
    Residents of the northern Red River Valley took cover Wednesday afternoon as tornadoes whipped across rural areas in Grand Forks and Traill counties....
    newsJune 7, 2017 - 8:30pm
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