Hinting game: weather!

[John Farley]

Pampa, TX, June 8, 1995

 

[Penny Lehner]

May 22. 1981 is my guess.

 

[Matt Sellers]

May 22. 1981 is my guess.

Correct! Your turn.

 

[Penny Lehner]

- Midwest
- F5 tornado
- Wiped out town almost completely
- the circus was in town so the fatality rate was very high
- produced heavy rains in neighboring state

Decided to start over.

 

[Scott Weberpal]

- Midwest
- F5 tornado
- Wiped out town almost completely
- the circus was in town so the fatality rate was very high
- produced heavy rains in neighboring state

Decided to start over.

June 12, 1899 New Richmond, WI tornado.

 

[Penny Lehner]

June 12, 1899 New Richmond, WI tornado.

You are correct. Your turn.

 

[Scott Weberpal]

• A tornado outbreak in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
• At least 1 F4 tornado.
• 9 fatalities.
• Within an hour of the tornado, survivors were working in blizzard-like conditions and near zero temps trying to rescue people trapped in the debris.

 

[Kevin Crawmer]

November 11, 1911? Amazing storm!

 

[Scott Weberpal]

November 11, 1911? Amazing storm!

You got it!! I wouldn't mind another storm like that - so long as it doesn't affect any towns this time!

 

[Kevin Crawmer]

Also that date Kansas City set a record high AND low that day. I believe some towns in the midwest experienced 60-75 degree swings in temperature that day.

 

[Kevin Crawmer]

You got it!! I wouldn't mind another storm like that - so long as it doesn't affect any towns this time!

That would be amazing to experience!

 

[Kevin Crawmer]

-at least 23 dead in two states
-EF4 torndado
-deadliest tornado in a certain tornado hot bed state in nearly 20 years
-leveled a town that was featured in USA Today the day before as a mining town turned ghost town


Probably a bit too easy, but a storm that is near and dear to me.

 

[Doug Ott]

cool I actually may know one here. may 14 2008 pitcher ok.

 

[Kevin Crawmer]

Very close Doug, but a part of that is wrong.

 

[Bart_Comstock]

Very close Doug, but a part of that is wrong.

May 10th, 2008: The Pitcher, OK EF4 tornado.

(do I get a cookie?)

This day is easy to remember for several reasons. The first being that the town I live in was also hit by a tornado this day, the next being the fact that I was suckered into chasing/busting in SE Oklahoma like many others were when I could have just stayed home, and lastly because I was in Seneca, MO with several other chasers (Tyler Constantini, Russel Parsons, and Joey Ketchum) that night trying to help out as best as we could.