Hinting game: weather!

[Andrew de la Garza]

11.21.1992, Houston.

Correct.

The Channelview F4, in the eastern suburbs of Houston, was one of the scariest near misses ever. As horrific as it would have been if it had hit downtown, it came even closer to hitting a number of oil refineries and/or the Port of Houston (it actually touched down on the banks of the Houston Ship Channel).

It's about as close as we've ever come to one of those "Mega-Shark vs. Super-Tornado" doomsday scenarios from those documentaries on TWC, TLC, etc...

 

[Matt Sellers]

- Isolated event; one of 5 tornadoes recorded nationwide that day
- F3, 2 fatalities
- Most damaging tornado in this state's history, though neither that state's most recent deadly tornado nor the strongest tornado to hit that state
- Mountain time zone

 

[Bart_Comstock]

- Isolated event; one of 5 tornadoes recorded nationwide that day
- F3, 2 fatalities
- Most damaging tornado in this state's history, though neither that state's most recent deadly tornado nor the strongest tornado to hit that state
- Mountain time zone

July 27th, 2010 - Sheridan County, Montana.

 

[Matt Sellers]

July 27th, 2010 - Sheridan County, Montana.

Incorrect.

Re. the Nov. 1992 outbreak: Houston was especially lucky considering what happened later that night in Mississippi, and over the subsequent 36 hours farther east (remember the 160-mile track F3 in North Carolina?) That was quite an outbreak.

 

[Bart_Comstock]

Incorrect.

Re. the Nov. 1992 outbreak: Houston was especially lucky considering what happened later that night in Mississippi, and over the subsequent 36 hours farther east (remember the 160-mile track F3 in North Carolina?) That was quite an outbreak.

Well if it killed 2 people and was an F3 it can't be from Montana. It cant be the Salt lake City tornado as that was only a F2 and didn't kill 2 people. Is it the May 22nd, 2008 F3 Tornado that hit Windsor, CO?

Edit: no wait Windsor only killed one person.


I got it! It is the Holly, Colorado tornado of March 28th, 2007


Edit2: No that isn't it either as that was not an isolated event.

 

[Matt Sellers]

I got it! It is the Holly, Colorado tornado of March 28th, 2007

Also incorrect... as you've reasoned!

 

[Bart_Comstock]

Also incorrect..........

Yup, I realized that after I made the post since that was part of a bigger outbreak and not an isolated event.

Was it the Sedgwick County, Colorado tornado that took place on June 2th7, 1960?

 

[Matt Sellers]

Was it the Sedgwick County, Colorado tornado that took place on June 2th7, 1960?

No; that tornado is not the most (monetarily) damaging in Colorado's history.

 

[Andrew de la Garza]

The 7/16/79 Cheyenne tornado?

Don't wait for me if I got it right... I need to call it a night.

 

[Matt Sellers]

The 7/16/79 Cheyenne tornado?

Correct!

Most recent deadly tornado in Wyoming occurred 8.12.2005, in Wright.
Strongest tornado recorded was 7.21.1987 in Teton County (F4); some sources note the Cheyenne tornado as F4 but later revised down to F3.

You're up, Andrew... whenever you can.

 

[Andrew de la Garza]

-This was an isolated, slow-moving supercell.
-It produced only three tornadoes.
-Unfortunately one of those was an F4 that leveled a tiny town.
-Casualties were severe... about 2/3 of the town's population was killed or injured.
-This event also happened in an unusual location in a state well known for tornadoes.

 

[ChristianTerry]

-This was an isolated, slow-moving supercell.
-It produced only three tornadoes.
-Unfortunately one of those was an F4 that leveled a tiny town.
-Casualties were severe... about 2/3 of the town's population was killed or injured.
-This event also happened in an unusual location in a state well known for tornadoes.

Ill guess. The Lone Grove tornado of February 2009.

 

[Danny Neal]

-This was an isolated, slow-moving supercell.
-It produced only three tornadoes.
-Unfortunately one of those was an F4 that leveled a tiny town.
-Casualties were severe... about 2/3 of the town's population was killed or injured.
-This event also happened in an unusual location in a state well known for tornadoes.

I was thinking Spencer, South Dakota, May 30th, 1998 all the way until the last bullet point.... Man..... time to think harder.

 

[Bart_Comstock]

Hrm.... is there a way you can tell us what was unusual about the area or narrow down the state or date?

 

[Jacob Ferden]

May 22, 1987, Saragosa, TX