(Wendell, MN) — After about a year of research and planning, a new weather radar site will soon go online in west-central Minnesota with the aim of filling gaps in radar coverage in parts of several counties.
Grant County Emergency Manager Tina Lindquist says she worked with other emergency managers, a retired National Weather Service meteorologist, and Louisville, Kentucky-based “Climavision” to bring the “X-Band” Radar to Wendell where it sits on top of the water tower.
Lindquist says Climavision “had a radar ready to deploy and things just really started to gain momentum.
Because there’s zero cost to the county and zero cost to the city, we moved full steam ahead.”
Lindquist says the radar has a radius of about 60 miles and will be most helpful during the spring and summer severe weather season in Grant, Otter Tail, Douglas, Pope, Stevens, and Traverse Counties.