Weather

Progress made in tornado clean-up

Oct 2, 2019

Lots of work has gone into repairing the damage from the EF-0 tornado that swept through Lake City Tuesday, Sept. 24 – by the city, by volunteers, by property owners – and a lot of progress has been made. A total cost estimate of the damage caused is yet to come, however. The storm struck at about...

Tornado hits Lake City

Sep 26, 2019

No one was injured or displaced by a Tuesday night tornado that caused extensive damage in Lake City, officials said, but some residents remained without power Wednesday morning and clean-up is expected to take days. The storm hit at around 8 p.m. According to the National Weather Service, the...

Weather fouls fair

Jul 25, 2019

Heat, then rain, put downward pressure on Wabasha County Fair attendance this year. Fair Board Member Rob Sexton said the crowd at Friday night’s autocross event was only about three-fourths as large as last year despite the participation of about 90 cars thanks to heat and humidity. Heavy rains...

Deluge gives way to unusually low rainbow

Jul 17, 2019

This photo came from Erik Fridell, the UPS delivery driver in Lake City. “This is a shot I took with my iPhone across from the 800 block of N. Lakeshore around 5:30 p.m. after yesterday’s quick deluge,” he wrote in an email July 10. “I was showing this photo around to my customers today because I...

Goodhue County declares state of emergency in response to Pine Island Flooding

Jul 17, 2019

A state of emergency was declared by the Goodhue County Board on Wednesday, July 10, due to the flooding on June 28-29 in Pine Island. The brief meeting was called because the county’s threshold for the State Disaster Program exceeds $87,285.87. Severe thunderstorms on June 28 brought 3 to 4...

Zumbro Falls weathers weekend flood

Jul 3, 2019

Zumbro Falls Mayor Bruce Heitmann said things went okay as the community responded to sudden flooding on the Zumbro River that crossed Highway 63 in one place Saturday. “It would have been worse if it had been three to four inches higher,” he said. That’s how close some businesses in lower-lying...

Library to host Karsten April 16 on weather

Apr 10, 2019

Join local educator Anna Karsten as she shares what she learned at Project Atmosphere, an American Meteorological Society-sponsored program for teachers to help them understand how weather and the atmosphere works and to educate their students and community. Through this experience Anna received a...

A tale of two lake roads

Mar 28, 2019

Lake Avenue in Old Frontenac was partially submerged Wednesday, March 27, as water levels surpassed minor flood stage (16 feet) in Lake City. Water levels were forecast to rise to 17.7 feet over the next week. Meanwhile, residents along the 1200 block of South Lakeshore Drive in Lake City have...

Flood forecasts put Lake City on alert

Mar 20, 2019

With the National Weather Service reporting that low level flooding on the Mississippi River at Lake City is a virtual certainty and a better than 50 percent chance of major flooding, city officials are developing response plans. Lake City’s marina, public works department, and emergency...

Snow Blows: Blizzard closes school, highway

Feb 28, 2019

The aftermath of a weekend blizzard left Highway 63 between Lake City and Zumbro Falls closed until Tuesday afternoon, Lake City public schools closed Monday and Tuesday, and city streets and parks crews digging out yet again. At Monday’s School Board Meeting, Supt. Erick Enger went over the...