Hinting game: weather!

[Tarmo Tanilsoo]

Okay... here's a try... March 27, 1994 Palm Sunday outbreak?

 

[Wes Carter]

Okay... here's a try... March 27, 1994 Palm Sunday outbreak?

That's it Tarmo.

There is some interesting reading on this event:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=palmsunday94stormdata
http://www.aos.wisc.edu/uwaosjournal/Volume1/AOS453/FCS_Nelson.pdf

And Roger Hill has interesting links to most of the events listed in this so far:
http://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/faq/torpages.html

 

[Tarmo Tanilsoo]

Okay, let's try something local for me(don't worry, info is quite easy to find):

* Affected area was under Level 1(slight) to Level 2(moderate) threat from ESTOFEX that day.
* Shelf clouds were seen and photographed shortly before the storm, pictures were shown in the media after the storm.
* Estonia was "cut" in half - one half had damage, another did not
* One weather station reported a wind gust of 36,5 meters per second. In the same town, a church was damaged
* 40 people injured in Finland

 

[Bart_Comstock]

Okay, let's try something local for me(don't worry, info is quite easy to find):

* Affected area was under Level 1(slight) to Level 2(moderate) threat from ESTOFEX that day.
* Shelf clouds were seen and photographed shortly before the storm, pictures were shown in the media after the storm.
* Estonia was "cut" in half - one half had damage, another did not
* One weather station reported a wind gust of 36,5 meters per second. In the same town, a church was damaged
* 40 people injured in Finland

Was it on Aug 8th, 2010?

 

[Tarmo Tanilsoo]

Indeed, 8/8 derecho it was. I experienced the storm firsthand, as it came over my half of the country. I actually barely saw the shelf cloud myself so I didn't bother much photographing it as the sky here was covered by smoke from Russian fires. Lost several trees in the farm and when another storm hit a week later(line of storms came from western Estonia, headed east), roof needed fixing too

 

[Andrew de la Garza]

[*]This was the first tornado to hit the downtown of a large city with a tower over 499ft tall affected.

That is actually incorrect.

There was a tornado vs. skycraper incident in Houston on 11/16/93.
An F1 tornado passed through several neighborhoods just west of downtown. It reached the central business district and high rises just as it was roping out. Only a couple of skyscrapers were hit, but the Enron Building (~50 stories) lost a lot of windows.

See http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/?n=severe_events_november

(The article incorrectly describes the Enron Building as a "95-story" structure.)

 

[Bart_Comstock]

That is actually incorrect.

There was a tornado vs. skycraper incident in Houston on 11/16/93.
An F1 tornado passed through several neighborhoods just west of downtown. It reached the central business district and high rises just as it was roping out. Only a couple of skyscrapers were hit, but the Enron Building (~50 stories) lost a lot of windows.

See http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/?n=severe_events_november

(The article incorrectly describes the Enron Building as a "95-story" structure.)

Ah okay, I was just going by what Bill Alder of the local NWS WSO said.

Indeed, 8/8 derecho it was. I experienced the storm firsthand, as it came over my half of the country. I actually barely saw the shelf cloud myself so I didn't bother much photographing it as the sky here was covered by smoke from Russian fires. Lost several trees in the farm and when another storm hit a week later(line of storms came from western Estonia, headed east), roof needed fixing too

I won't lie, Google came in pretty handy this time.

Alright here is my submission for this new round:

• Five tornadoes of F3 or greater intensity.
• Tornadoes were reported in seven states.
• One of the tornadoes would become the deadliest in its state history.
• 3 of the 40+ confirmed tornadoes would kill just over 100 people.

Good luck!

 

[Matt Sellers]

5.25.1955 (Udall, KS tornado being the most significant)

 

[Bart_Comstock]

5.25.1955 (Udall, KS tornado being the most significant)

Correct! Looks like you are up now.