Weather History: November 5: Record Warm, Cold, Snow, Storms, Floods, Hurricane Michelle & TS Mitch

November 4, 10:53 PMWilmington Weather ExaminerCharlie Wilson

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Listed are Meteorological events that happened on November 5th:

1894
The famous Election Day snowstorm occurred in Connecticut.  As much as a foot of wet snow fell, with high winds caused great damage to wires and trees.  Winds gusted to 60 mph at Block Island RI.

1948
A waterspout made landfall at Vlieland in the Netherlands.  While it passed over the local weather station, the anemometer measured a gust of 126 mph, the strongest gust ever recorded in the Netherlands.

1961
Strong Santa Ana winds fanned the flames of the Bel Air and Brentwood fires in southern California destroying many homes.  At 10 pm local time, the Los Angeles Civic Center reported a temperature of 74° along with a dew point of 5°.  The next day, Burbank reported a relative humidity of 3%.

1975
Regina, Saskatchewan Canada experienced its warmest November day when the temperature rose to 74°.
Havre, MT tied their November record high with 78°.
Other record highs included: Grass Range, MT: 85°, Fort Benton, MT: 79°, Sheridan, WY: 78°, Lewistown, MT: 78°, Stanford, MT: 77°, Huron, SD: 76°, Great Falls, MT: 76°, Grand Forks, ND: 75°, Rapid City, SD: 75°, Bismarck, ND: 74°, International Falls, MN: 73°, Billings, MT: 73°, Boise, ID: 73°-Tied, St. Cloud, MN: 72°, Pocatello, ID: 71°, Cut Bank, MT: 71°, Minneapolis, MN: 70°, Fargo, ND: 70°, Duluth, MN: 68°, Glasgow, MT: 67°-Tied and Wisdom, MT: 63°.
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1977
A slow moving storm produced 5 to 9 inch rains across northern Georgia causing the Toccoa Dam to burst.  As the earthen dam collapsed the waters rushed through the Toccoa Falls Bible College killing 3 people in the dorms.  38 people perished at a trailer park along the stream.

1987
Low pressure off the California coast produced stormy weather in the southwestern U.S. Flash flooding stranded 8,000 people in the Death Valley National Park of southern California.  Thunderstorms over southern Nevada produced dime size hail and wind gusts to 68 mph around Las Vegas, NV. 
Unseasonably mild weather in the northeastern U.S. was replaced with snow and gale force winds.
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1988
A powerful storm produced high winds from the Great Plains to New England, and produced heavy snow in northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.   A wind gust of 64 mph was measured in Knoxville, TN.  Winds gusted to 80 mph at Pleasant Valley, VT.

1989
Temperatures warmed into the 80s across much of Texas with some locations reporting record high temperatures for the date including: San Angelo, TX: 88°, Dallas (DFW), TX: 86°, Abilene, TX: 86°-Tied and Dallas, TX: 85°.

1991
Record cold occurred in the East.  Elkins, WV dropped to 8°, set not only a new daily record low but also a record for the coldest temperature so early in the season.  Pittsburgh, PA bottomed out at 11° setting the same two records as Elkins.  Other daily record lows included: Marquette, MI: 5°, Mansfield, OH: 13°, Youngstown, OH: 13°, Huntington, WV: 14°, Akron, OH: 14°, Cincinnati, OH: 14°, Columbus, OH: 14°, Charleston, WV: 15°, Indianapolis, IN: 15°, Lexington, KY: 16°, Paducah, KY: 16°, Cleveland, OH: 16°, Toledo, OH: 16°, Evansville, IN: 16°, Oak Ridge, TN: 17°, Peoria, IL: 17°, Detroit, MI: 17°, Bristol, TN: 18°, Nashville, TN: 18°, Louisville, KY: 18°, Avoca, PA: 19°, Sterling (Dulles Airport), VA: 19°, Huntsville, AL: 19°, Roanoke, VA: 20°, Asheville, NC: 20°, Erie, PA: 21°, Lynchburg, VA: 21°, Birmingham, AL: 21°, Knoxville, TN: 21° Springfield, IL: 21°, Reading, PA: 22°, Chattanooga, TN: 22°-Tied, Jackson, MS: 23° Meridian, MS: 24°, Atlantic City, NJ: 24°, Macon, GA: 24°, Montgomery, AL: 24°, Shreveport, LA: 24°, Memphis, TN: 24°, Richmond, VA: 25°, Harrisburg, PA: 25°-Tied, Atlanta, GA: 26°, Baton Rouge, LA: 26°, Mobile, AL: 27°, Augusta, GA: 27°-Tied, Charlotte, NC: 28°, Islip, NY: 29°, Lake Charles, LA: 29°, New Orleans, LA: 29°, Wallops Island, VA: 30°, Pensacola, FL: 30°, Norfolk, VA: 30°-Tied and Tallahassee, FL: 30°-Tied.
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1998
Rejuvenated Tropical Storm Mitch, a mere shadow of its former killer self, made landfall near Naples FL with top winds of 65 mph.  5 tornadoes were spawned in South Florida: 2 in the Florida Keys, 1 each in Broward, Palm Beach, and Collier Counties.  Overall the twisters injured 65 people and damaged or destroyed 645 homes.

2001
Hurricane Michelle battered Cuba and the Bahamas while Hurricane Noel moved toward Newfoundland in the north Atlantic.  Michelle killed 5 people, devastated crops and left the western half of the island without electricity.  100,000 - 500,000 were evacuated and in Havana, 180 buildings collapsed and 1,200 trees are blown down.  With winds up to 135 mph it was the strongest hurricane there in 50 years and went on to cause some damage in Nassau, the Bahamas.  This was the first time that two hurricanes formed in November in the Atlantic/Caribbean Ocean basin since 1994.

The Coast Guard station at Loran Station at Attu, AK, in the Aleutian Islands. Winds blew from 69 to 104 mph for 18 hours, which was caused by an intense low pressure of 960 millibars off the coast.

2002
Springtime is the main season for tornadoes in Alabama, but there is a secondary tornado season in the fall that many people do not think about.  For the 3rd straight year, the secondary tornado season of November and December in Alabama proved to be the most deadly.

2005
Late season severe weather caused extensive wind damage across central and southeast Illinois, late on the 5th to just after midnight on the 6th. Peak wind gusts from the storms included 89 mph at the Lawrenceville Airport, and 86 mph at Chrisman, where significant tree and structural damage occurred. Significant damage also occurred west of Bloomington, near Stanford.

A severe thunderstorm drenched Porto Alegre, Brazil with up to 4 inches of rain in less than an hour, the heaviest rain in decades.