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 stated tornadic activity large hail and strong wind gusts according to Brian Hurley meteorologist with the National Weather Operation s Weather Prediction Center Cass County Sheriff Jesse Jahner explained 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 Organization in Grand Forks declared two deaths were attributed to a tornado that hit a home Tornado established by National Weather Operation Timothy Lynch lead forecaster with the NWS office in Grand Forks mentioned the storm had been ratified as a tornado but that crews were still working to determine its strength and highest wind speeds He disclosed the storm impacted the neighboring counties of Cass and Ransom We still have people out assessing and gathering information on what happened It was a pretty major event Lynch described The Associated Press on Saturday Heavy winds also swept across localized areas of Minnesota The NWS shared 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 commented executives were responding to several knocked down power lines and several gas line leaks Beltrami County Urgency Management noted the damage to the Bemidji area is extensive Numerous 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 reported 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 stated of the enhanced vulnerability 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 disclosed including particular 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 explained Cooling centers were open in cities including Omaha and Minneapolis as administrators warned the residents 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 threat category is a of into early next week Hurley reported Meanwhile parts of the Great Basin and the Southwest may be hot but are seeing relief from below-normal temperatures