Extreme weather in your area

Originally posted by Jeff Snyder
My most memorable event from when I was young and living with my parents in Minnesota, was the Halloween Storm of 1991, which lasted mainly from October 31st - November 3rd. This storm dumped over 30\" of snow across portions of eastern Minnesota, with 28.4\" in the Twin Cities and 36.9\" in Duluth. There was also signficant ice accumulations in southeastern MN... This storm was followed by record cold too... I remember \"trick-or-treat\"ing that Halloween, in heavy snow and strong winds...

More info athttp://climate.umn.edu/doc/journal/top5/numberthree.htm
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This wasn't part of the "perfect storm," was it? It's the same date.
 
The 2 that come to my mind is Amarillo, Tx (June 21,2004) hailstorm that dessimated the west side of the city and cost $100 million. hail to grapefriuit and larger actually went through some roofs into living rooms.

and

Canyon, Tx Flood (May 26, 1978)
10 inches rain in 90 minutes, 4 deaths, 15 injured, 123 homes damaged.
I cant imagine what it would be like to be in a storm that dropped that much rain that fast. That is a rate of 6.5 inches an hour.

Since it is limited to 1960 or newer I wont submit but will mention the march '57 blizzard when the panhandle had 30ft snow drifts!! ( this is texas after all)
 
You know, I hate it when someone says "from when I was young" and then posts the date 1991.

Anyhow.

The true Perfect Storm - the Columbus Day storm, Oct 12, 1962 - Corvallis, OR had a 127mph gust 60 miles inland, Newport, OR on the coast at the coast guard station the anemometer pegged out at 138mph for 5 minutes and then blew away, and at Cape Blanco on the Oregon coast, NWS estimates sustained winds of 150mph and gusts to 179mph - it felled 11.2 billion board feet of timber and killed people from California to British Columbia - and it was not a hurricane - it was a mid-latitudes low pressure area.

http://oregonstate.edu/~readw/October1962.html


The 1972 Portland-Vancouver tornado that killed 6.

The 1948 Floods that wiped out the entire town of Vanport, on the Columbia River. 25 people killed and a city of 20,000 gone.

1903 Flash Flood at Heppner in NE Oregon, 247 people killed.

December 1964/Jan 1965 Floods in the Willamette Valley - 17 people died, and virtually every river in the state was well over flood stage.

The extreme cold event of Feb 1933: A cold outbreak brought a surge of Arctic air into the state. The city of Seneca, in northeast Oregon, recorded the state's all-time record low temperature of -54 degrees F. The next day it was nearly 100 degrees warmer when the high reached 45 degrees.

The January 1950 snowstorms - A series of three snow storms and cold air the entire month ended up giving most inland areas over 4 feet of snow, and some mountainous areas over 20ft. Most highways west of the Cascade mountains were closed.
 
 
Plains snowstorm Friday-Sunday, Oct. 24-26, 1997 which left most of Omaha without power for 10 days and killed 9. If I recall right it was really warm that day and then that night we got a TON of snow. I'll never forget that storm as it was my first time seeing thundersnow.
 
Originally posted by Jay McCoy
The 2 that come to my mind is Amarillo, Tx (June 21,2004) hailstorm that dessimated the west side of the city and cost $100 million. hail to grapefriuit and larger actually went through some roofs into living rooms.
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Many of those people with home damage along Hollywood Rd are just now getting their roofs and windows repaired/replaced! The hail went through the metal roofing of several barns and that church, as well. I am so glad that missed our place, or we would have probably had some dead horses. :(
 
Did not happen in my area, and no one mention it yet.
were these these famous events.

-May 05 1995 Fort Worh (Mayfest) Hailstorm
-The Great USA Flood of 1993
-July 31, 1976 Big Thompson Canyon Colorado Flash Flood
-The Chicago Heat Wave
-The Record Breaking Hail in Aurora NE

Also I remember the Drought and Heat Wave of 1988,
that affected most of the Midwest.
Last time Grand Rapids made it to 100 degrees.

Mike
 
MAY 30-31, 1998 DERECHO: The Great Southern Great Lakes Derecho of 1998

I do remember the derecho May 31, I met the derecho at Lake Michigan,
recorded 92 mph winds, my anemometer blew off the roof of my
truck, was not mounted too well, also had a pop-up camper of
mine destroyed by the derecho.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/C...-311998Page.htm
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/smrwkshp/1998/case/
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/may31.htm
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/techa/ta0/tech0001/00-01.html
http://ams.confex.com/ams/Sept2000/20SLS/a...racts/16158.htm
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mpx/science/derechostudy.html

NWS Grand Rapids used to have a write-up and radar images. on their site
Thankfully somebody saved the information on their site.
http://www.nrnilstormlab.com/derecho.gif
http://www.nrnilstormlab.com/53198grrwriteup.html
http://www.nrnilstormlab.com/53198pis.html

Mike
 
Had to pop in here on the '93 snowstorm -- I live in Syracuse, and I recall the morning after the storm having to dig my way out of the back door -- the snow and drifting was over my head (I'm 5'5") and I had to "swim" through the snow, walking and digging my way through to get around the block to my parent's house -- a less than 5 minute walk took me almost an hour that day.
It was also the first time SU had closed in my memory.

The second time the university closed was the morning after the 1998 Labor Day storm, which was the scariest storm I have ever been in (probably baby stuff to most of you, but was pretty wild for us CNYers!). Here's a link:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/bgm/laborday.html

We fared okay in that one, only blew out a few windows, but we were on an old power grid and didn't even lose power, but I have never seen so many trees pulled over in my life, and corn fields all blown flat in the same direction.

Sam
 
The March Blizzard of 2003; 3 feet of snow falls in the Denver Metro area with reports as high as 90 inches in places along the foothills. The setup for that storm was about as perfect as it could get!
 
The cold snap Tim mentioned from December 1983 affected Tulsa as well, and for a longer time. It started with a 4- 6" snow, and temps stayed below freezing for about a week. Some of the snow piles created by businesses that scraped their parking lots lasted until April! :shock:

I drove around the Tulsa flood of October 1986. I drove up to Wichita to see relatives before the heavy rains moved in, and drove back after the rains moved out. Once I had to stop and wait at a tourist center while part of I-35 dried out. The Corps of Engineers decided to make a near-maximum release of water from Keystone Dam, about 20 miles upstream from Tulsa. The roads around the dam were lined with sightseers as I drove by. The water coming through the dam looked like the classic "wall of water" sometimes seen in old movies. The resulting flood affected areas downstream as far as Muskogee.

My most unforgettable extreme weather event was the ice storm of Christmas Day, 2004. I had to drive through freezing rain from Kiefer to Redbird and back in a car with no heater or defroster. Before starting, I poured several gallons of hot tap water on my car windows to de-ice them.

The trip to Redbird wasn't so bad, because I was headed east and winds were from the west. I slid only once; it happened as I was coming up on an interseciton with a gravel road and I seen that some gravel had been knocked out onto the highway. I steered toward the gravel and regained traction.

On the return trip, I was heading directly into the freezing rain. My windshield iced up except for a small patch at the bottom center just above the defroster vent. Just enough hot air wafted up throught the vent to keep that patch clear. I drove most of that trip bent over to the right. My top speed was about 30 MPH, but only very brielfy!

I believe in God and you can believe I was doing some heavy praying!
 
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