A tornado that swept through a rural town in North Dakota left at least 3 people dead

ENDERLIN N D AP Powerful winds including a tornado that swept across parts of the upper Midwest left three people dead and a regional airport heavily damaged while nearly million Americans were under a heat advisory or warning as the weekend warms up much of the U S A complex storm system wreaked havoc in parts of North Dakota northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin with published tornadic activity large hail and strong wind gusts according to Brian Hurley meteorologist with the National Weather Organization s Weather Prediction Center Cass County Sheriff Jesse Jahner revealed at a press conference Saturday that two men and a woman were killed at two separate locations around the town of Enderlin North Dakota late Friday Enderlin is about miles kilometers southwest of Fargo About customers were without power in North Dakota Hours earlier in a post on the social media site X the National Weather Function in Grand Forks commented two deaths were attributed to a tornado that hit a home Tornado proven by National Weather Utility Timothy Lynch lead forecaster with the NWS office in Grand Forks disclosed the storm had been verified as a tornado but that crews were still working to determine its strength and highest wind speeds He reported the storm impacted the neighboring counties of Cass and Ransom We still have people out reviewing and gathering information on what happened It was a pretty major event Lynch informed The Associated Press on Saturday Heavy winds also swept across localized areas of Minnesota The NWS released wind gusts of up to mph kph at Bemidji Regional Airport overnight I cannot ever recall hearing a rushing wind like that Bemidji Mayor Jorge Prince posted on Facebook in the early hours Saturday Emerged from our basement to find our neighborhood with lots of trees down and several homes with severe damage Prince also announced bureaucrats were responding to several knocked down power lines and several gas line leaks Beltrami County Urgency Management declared the damage to the Bemidji area is extensive A great number of Bemidji-area businesses posted on social media Saturday saying they were without power and closed for the day Nearly customers in Minnesota were without power according to poweroutage us Hurley stated that same storm is traversing across parts of Michigan but is weakened It will cross over lower Ontario Canada and back into the United States to hit upstate New York on Saturday night into Sunday Still wind and hail threat Hurley revealed of the enhanced pitfall to upstate New York It doesn t look like it s going to be as robust perhaps as we saw last night Millions face extreme heat Almost million Americans are under an extreme heat warning Saturday Hurley mentioned as the high temperatures combined with humidity push an above-average heat index for the Northern Plains and the Midwest Parts of Nebraska the Dakotas Minnesota and Iowa could face temperatures easily degrees above normal Hurley reported including selected areas reaching the triple digits It may be expected in July he mentioned but it s rarer to see in June A lot of these areas have been pretty cool with rain over the last month or so so it s going to be a little bit of a shock Hurley revealed Cooling centers were open in cities including Omaha and Minneapolis as bureaucrats warned the inhabitants of dangerously hot conditions An additional million people were under a heat advisory as forecasters expect the extreme weather to migrate eastward toward the Great Lakes the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast where the heat vulnerability category is a of into early next week Hurley disclosed Meanwhile parts of the Great Basin and the Southwest may be hot but are seeing relief from below-normal temperatures