Severe Weather

A time lapse video of a brief storm rolling over White Bear Lake Friday evening.

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for Minnesota and parts of Northwest Wisconsin until 9 p.m. Thursday. Main threats could include damaging hail and strong winds up to more than 50 MPH. FOX 9 will continue to track the storm's progress throughout the evening.

Animals at the Como Zoo are keeping cool during this week's heat wave.

Prescribed burns, as they're often called, have become commonplace across the country, including right here in Minnesota. In fact, the city of Burnsville is using fire to transform its heavily forested city parks back into the oak savannas they once were hundreds of years ago. With several hundred acres of parks, they will be transformed over the course of many years. But it's already underway in Terrace Oaks Park with roughly one-third of the 220-acre park restored.

Storms, which caused no major damage in the Twin Cities, dumped about an inch of rain overnight. The storm also packed some pretty strong winds, with wind damage reported in central Minnesota and causing power outages impacting about 8,400 customers.

Minnesota is seeing its highest temperature heat wave of the summer, as the daily high topped out at 94 on Tuesday, and will flirt near 100 both Wednesday and Thursday.

People in Hudson, Wisconsin, are cleaning up Tuesday following storms that left damage throughout the community on Monday.

The Eden Prairie Fire Department shares tips on how they keep firefighters safe during extreme heat.

A storm rolled through western Wisconsin on Monday evening, ripping off the roof at an apartment building in Hudson. FOX 9's Bill Keller has the latest on cleanup efforts Tuesday morning.

A 17-year-old passed out on a jet bridge at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, and her parents are blaming the extreme heat as the cause. FOX 9?s Courtney Godfrey has the details.

Powerful storms moved across parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin Monday night, leaving communities to clean up the wreckage left behind.

Monday afternoon storms formed throughout pockets of central Minnesota stretching to western Wisconsin, causing damage in some communities like Hudson.