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Recondite Weather Phenomenon for this Day Thread
Weather Guide Calendar

Posted on 06/27/2005 3:23:03 PM PDT by raygun

On this day in:


TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: wx1957; wx1993; wx1997; wxpanic; wxtowel
1957: Hurricane Audry made landfall (offshore gusts to 180 mph) at the TX/LA line with at least 12' storm surge that inundated LA coast to 25-mi inland. 390 died (a U.S. hurricane record) as a result of this storm.

1993: Hail fell to several inches deep in IN's NE Parke Country; drifts to several feet deep. A county highway department 4-wheel-drive truck had to be pulled out of a hail drift by another 4-wheel-drive. Dense forg formed over the hail-covered areas.

1997: Hail up to 2.75" broke windows/damaged rooofs in most of the 190 homes of Michigan, ND. Many dents in vehicles. The town's 2 implement dealers also suffered significant damage to their inventories. Total damage: $10 million.

Thunderstorms can be lethal even without floods, lightning or tornadoes or massive downbursts. In August 1994, 143 people died in Brazzavile, Congo. A large crowd attending a church service panicked at the onset of a cloudburst. The victims were trampled to death by the churchgoers stampede for shelter. Always have a towel handy. And above all, Don't panic.

1 posted on 06/27/2005 3:23:03 PM PDT by raygun
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ping


2 posted on 06/27/2005 3:24:55 PM PDT by raygun
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My Dad's a retired weatherman and loves this stuff! Thanks and Keep it coming!

Hail drifts ... Geez!


3 posted on 06/27/2005 4:02:39 PM PDT by JennysCool (In a perfect world, where everything is equal, I own the film rights and am working on the sequel)
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To: raygun

It is supposed to be 85 today. It might be although it has taken all day to get there. There is smoke, so much that it is hard to see if there are clouds above.


4 posted on 06/27/2005 4:53:13 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: RightWhale

Smoke is a lithometeor.

PAFA 280053Z 00000KT 7SM FEW120 OVC200 23/06 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP110 FU ALQDS T02330061

Observation at 1653 UTC (ATD +8) from Fairbanks automated station with precipitation descriminator, winds calm, smoke all quadrants, 7 statute mile visibility, few clouds at FL120 and overcast at FL200. T02330061 is the hourly temperatures group (23.3 Deg. C. temp, dew point 6.1 Deg. C.) which are also noted in the message text body. That works out to THI 67 @ 74 Deg. F.

In contrast I had THI 83.2 @ 93 Deg. F. this afternoon at 4 P.M.


5 posted on 06/27/2005 7:13:00 PM PDT by raygun
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To: raygun

They have been promising 85 for a couple days. We got 73 because of the smoke. Probably no clouds now, but it's hard to tell with the entire sky still smoked over.


6 posted on 06/27/2005 7:16:31 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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As of 30 minutes ago, still overcast at 20,000 (and still smoke all quadrants). What's up with the smoke? Did Crankshaft fire up the BBQ again?


7 posted on 06/27/2005 7:26:54 PM PDT by raygun
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To: raygun
smoke and fire loads slow, but tells the story.
8 posted on 06/27/2005 7:32:54 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: raygun

Hurricane Audry killed 390 people but that is not the record. The 1900 Galveston storm killed 6000 and possibly as many as 10,000 people.


9 posted on 06/27/2005 7:37:30 PM PDT by Ditter
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Whoops. Audry set the June hurricane fatality record, not the greatest natural disaster in all of U.S. history (according to number of fatalities).
10 posted on 06/27/2005 7:48:24 PM PDT by raygun
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Huh. Planned burns or what?


11 posted on 06/27/2005 7:49:26 PM PDT by raygun
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;9)


12 posted on 06/27/2005 7:51:43 PM PDT by Ditter
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Not likely. Going to employ many able-bodied smokejumpers, especially if villages are threatened.


13 posted on 06/27/2005 9:05:02 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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