Your Top 5 WEATHER events!

[Guest]

Now this is for any kind of weather. Name your top 5 weather events that has affected you!

I will add mine later! I figured i needed this thread because i did a winter related one and i seen stuff that didnt relate to the topic. This one covers all types of weather events from Canes to Blizzards, Floods, Tornadoes, ETC.

[timNms]

1. Camille '69

2. March '93 blizzard - we got 9 inches of snow with thunder and lightning and howling winds...

3. Super outbreak in '74. I was in 7th grade. Twice it got pitch black in the middle of the day that year. We had severe storms and flooding.

4. Frederick '79

5. Winter storm in '80 or 81..can't remember...we had about 4 days of freezing rain/drizzle, then about 1/2 and inch of snow on top of that.

[senorpepr]

1) Floods of '93
2) Floods of '95
3) Tornadic Outbreak in MO/KS of May '03
4) Hurricane Gordon '00
5) Tornadic Outbreak in Srn MS of Aug-Sep '00


(now I've got the proper topic )

[Josephine96]

Top 5 Events of personal life..
Weather wise

5. Tropical Storm Gabrielle {2001}
4. One of the many freezes in 2002 {it dipped into the low 20's here and I made the mistake of stepping outside in just a t shirt and boxer shorts lol }

3. Hurricane Erin {1995}
2. Tropical Storm Josephine {1996?}
1. Central Florida Tornado Outbreak {1998}

[weatherlover427]

Hmm...

5) My storm chasing trip in late May of last year
4) The tornado that went across the street from where I worked when I lived in FL
3) The central FL tornado outbreak / associated El Nino storms
2) All the Santa Ana winds I've ever seen / experienced

And what's #1? you ask. Well, it's...

1) Watching the summer time thunderstorms build, explode; rain themselves out; and then dissipate in central FL over the year and a half that I lived there. Truly an amazing sight to see.

[vbhoutex]

!. Hurricane Camille
2. Hurricane Alicia
3. Tropical Storm Allison
4. 3 snows in month from Jan. 12-Feb. 16, 1973
5. ???????

[GalvestonDuck]

1. Tropical Storm Allison '01 (Galveston)
2. KY Blizzard of '78 (Louisville)
3. Super Outbreak of '74 (Louisville)
4. Hurricane Georges '98 (during my drive/move to TX)
5. KY Floods of '97 (Central KY, just a month after my mom died, which will be 7 years on Friday 2/13)

And if quakes count --
* The Maysville Quake '80 (centered 50 mi. NE of Lexington, measuring 5.1)

[JCT777]

1) Blizzard of 1983
2) President's Day Storm II - 2003
3) Blizzard of 1996
4) Hurricane Gloria
5) Blizzard of 1978

[azskyman]

#5 - Record snows in late January, 1979. More than 27" on the ground with a core water content of 2.70". I spent 3 frantic days later that spring trying to get approval for the Corps of Engineers to bolster the dikes on the nearby river. Once we got approval, massive movement of trucks and materials raised those dikes by more than three feet along the downtown channel.
#4 - Crystal Lake (IL) tornado of Palm Sunday, 1965. Saw the parent thunderstorm cloud and then drove into that town with an 8mm movie camera and took film shots just two hours later.
#3 - Typhoon Louise on October 28, 1970. Nothing particularly deadly about this lady, but living in a wall-less hooch on the South China sea in Vietnam made for an interesting few hours. Sheet metal flies well in winds to 65 miles per hour!
#2 - Measuring low pressure during a winter storm in northern Illinois of 28.78" as the core of the almost tropical winter system passed right over my house. My original barograph trace was sent to the a university in New York state for study.
#1 - The Belvidere (IL) tornado of April 21, 1967. I saw it coming and to this day remember specific details of the death (24 of them) and destruction I witnessed during those late afternoon hours.

[isobar]

1. Camille '69

2. March '93 blizzard - we got 9 inches of snow with thunder and lightning and howling winds...

3. Super outbreak in '74. I was in 7th grade. Twice it got pitch black in the middle of the day that year. We had severe storms and flooding.

4. Frederick '79

5. Winter storm in '80 or 81..can't remember...we had about 4 days of freezing rain/drizzle, then about 1/2 and inch of snow on top of that.

Tim, I was just reading about the ice storm in MS in '94 ... it's the 10 yr anniversary this week. 3 to 6 " of ice!! Some people w/o power for a month. Was that near you?

[Guest]

In the 22.5 years of living on this planet...I have been through or near memorable events:

1. October 1997 Omaha Snowstorm--trees down, power out, no school for three days.

2. Summer 1993 Floods--Went to St. Louis during this time, and the fields all the way down were water.

3. Summer 1995 Heat Wave--what can I say...100 degrees was "relief"

4. October Snowstorm (Halloween) 1991 in Omaha--Don't remember much except it being rather cold and, surprise, surprise, snowy!

5. June 13, 2001 Seward, NE Tornado--I was carrying out groceries at a local supurmarket, while a F4 tornado was churning 60 miles to the west.

[Lindaloo]

I do not think that was near Tim Donna. Most of that was North of Jackson. He is south of Jackson, MS.

[Stephanie]

These are all winter storms;

1) NE Ice Storm December, 1973?
2) Blizzard 1983
3) Superstorm 1993
4) Blizzard 1996
5) President's Day storm 2003

[isobar]

I do not think that was near Tim Donna. Most of that was North of Jackson. He is south of Jackson, MS.

Thanks Linda, wasn't sure about his exact whereabouts.

[wx247]

1. The May 03 Tornado

2. The Christmas Snowstorm of '02

3. Winter '87 Ice Storm

4. Winter 01-02 Ice Storm in Sedalia

5. December '02 Tornado

[therock1811]

Top 5:

5) Floods of 1997
4) Heat wave of 1999 (tied 59 year old record on July 30)
3)Cold snap in December 1989 (I was 4)
2) Tornado of April 9, 1999
1) Feb. 1998 snowstorm ( About 18" snow in 3 days!)

[isobar]

1. Tornado outbreak May 8, 1979, Tampa, FL
10 tornadoes in Hillsborough County over 13 hrs, 14" rain

2. Hurricane Elena, Labor Day 1985, Tampa

3. Tornado outbreak, May 2003, SW Indiana

4. Thundersnow, Feb 2003, SW Indiana

5. An accumulation of 16 winters in NH, which I figure amounts
to around 960" total!

[azskyman]

Hey, you folks have some real weather history on your record! Obviously you look "up" a lot! And Donna, 16 winters in NH? Where at? I spent 4 days at Pinkham Notch Camp on the road out of N Conway back in about 1991 or so.

[isobar]

Very interesting weather experiences everyone!

And Donna, 16 winters in NH? Where at? I spent 4 days at Pinkham Notch Camp on the road out of N Conway back in about 1991 or so.

Oh Steve, that's some BEAUTIFUL country up there! I was down south near Manchester from 1985 to 2001 but got up to the White Mtns often. BTW, I spent a few days in Scottsdale back in Aug. 2000. Wish I knew you then! Great place! Drove through Tortilla Flat. Loved experiencing 115º temps!