Weather History: November 6: Record Warm, Snowstorm, Windstorm, Severe Storms, Tornadoes & Flooding

November 5, 8:21 PMWilmington Weather ExaminerCharlie Wilson

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Listed are Meteorological events that happened on November 6th:

One of the foggiest places in the Lower 48 states is the appropriately named Cape Disappointment on the U.S. west coast where they have around 2,552 hours per year of foggy weather. That means that roughly 1/4 of the year it is foggy there.

1880
A Great Lakes gale wrecked or disabled a score of ships on Lake Ontario, including the “Belle Sheridan”, a collier just 10 miles from Toronto. Only one of seven crew members survived.

1921
Winds gusted to 101 mph at Hook of Holland in the Netherlands, the strongest non-tornadic gust ever recorded in the Netherlands.

1951
Snow fell from the Texas panhandle to the Lower Great Lakes, leaving record totals of 14.1 inches at Springfield, MO and 12.5 inches at St. Louis, MO.  Other heavier snowfall totals included 20 inches at Nevada, MO, 13.5 inches at Sedan, KS, 13 inches at Decatur, IL, and 10 inches at Alva, OK.  In the Saint Louis area, up to 20 inches was reported in Washington County.  The snow at St. Louis, MO was the greatest ever for so early in the season.  In Chicago, IL up to 8 inches fell causing traffic problems.  Transit bus schedules of ordinarily under one hour took up to four hours to complete.  Strong easterly winds drove high waves along the Lake Michigan shoreline causing extensive damage and flooding.

1953
A tropical depression moved east from the central Gulf of Mexico and across Florida accompanied by heavy rain and 30 to 40 mph winds.  As it reached the Atlantic Coast and passed over the Gulf Stream it rapidly intensified.  At the same time, an unusual cold outbreak was developing in the Midwest and Northeast.  As the storm intensified it turned sharply to the north and moisture from the storm was thrown back into the cold air mass, creating a band of snow that develop from North Carolina to New York.  Snow began in Washington in the early-morning hours of the 6th.  A tight pressure gradient set up between the strong ocean storm and the cold high-pressure system to the north causing winds in Washington, D.C. to reach 30 mph.  Monmouth County, NJ reported a wind gust to 78 mph.  Old Kings Highway in Alexandria, VA was blocked by a large drifts and the total snowfall at National Airport was recorded at 6.7 inches. This is one of Washington's biggest early season snow falls, not far behind the Veteran's Day snowstorm of November 11, 1987, which piled up 11 inches in Washington.  27 inches of snow fell in the Pennsylvania Mountains and winds gusted to 98 mph at Block Island, RI.  Other snowfall totals included 11 inches at Harrisburg, PA, 8.8 inches at Philadelphia, PA (their earliest snowstorm of 4 or more inches), 9 inches at Takoma Park, MD and 3 inches at Richmond, VA.
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1959
On Hawkins Hill, located on North Island of New Zealand, the wind speed reached 155 mph, the windiest event ever recorded on the North Island.

1961
Strong Santa Ana winds in Southern California fanned fires that burned many homes in the Brentwood and Bel Air areas.

1969
On this date through the 13th, a severe ice storm between Quebec City and the Manicouagan River power dam in Quebec Canada caused over $1.5 million damage to transmission lines and towers.  Over 30 transmission towers under construction were brought down.

1977
5 to 9 inches of rain caused an earthen dam above the town of Toccoa, GA to burst during the pre-dawn hours of a Sunday morning, flooding the town and killing 37 people. The Toccoa Falls Bible College was flooded and several people were killed.  There were many bridge and road washouts in North Georgia during the event, including 18 in Madison County alone.

1986
On this date through the 7th, a storm brought heavy snow across parts of the northern Rockies.  Snowfall totals included: Mystic Lake, MT: 35 inches, Red Lodge, MT: 27 inches, Nye, MT: 16 inches, Burgess Junction, MT: 15 inches, Sheridan, WY:  13 inches, Pryor, MT: 9 inches, Broadus, MT: 7 inches and Billings, MT: 5 inches.

1987
High winds in the northeastern U.S. gusted to 63 mph at Rhode Island turning a recent warm spell into a distant memory.  Squalls resulting from the high winds produced 7 inches at Rome, NY and 5 inches of snow at Marquette, MI. 
A storm in the southwestern U.S. brought heavy snow to some of the higher elevations of Arizona, Colorado and Utah.

1988
A powerful low pressure system over the Great Lakes Region continued to produce snow across parts of the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes Region.  Snowfall totals along the shore of Lake Superior reached 24 inches, with 3 feet reported in the Porcupine Mountain area of Upper Michigan.  Marquette, MI established a November record with 17.3 inches of snow in 24 hours.
El Paso, TX enjoyed a record high of 83°.

1989
Unseasonably warm weather prevailed in the south central and southeastern U.S.  9 cities from Florida to Oklahoma and Texas reported record high temperatures for the date as readings warmed into the 80s to near 90°.  The high of 89° at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in Texas equaled their record for November.  Other locations reporting record high temperatures for the date included: Austin (Bergstrom), TX: 89°, Waco, TX: 89°, Dallas, TX: 87°, San Angelo, TX: 87°, Shreveport, LA: 86° and New Orleans, LA: 84°-Tied.

1994
San Francisco, CA set a 24-hour rainfall record with 6.19 inches.

1996
Heavy showers and thunderstorms moved across central and southern Oklahoma on this date in 1996, and continued through the early morning of the 7th. Flash flooding occurred across many counties. Durant received up to 5 inches, as city streets became impassable with as much as two feet of water covering the roads.
San Antonio, TX set a record high of 91°.

2005
An F3 tornado cut a 41 mile track through Henderson County in Kentucky, Vanderburgh, Warrick, and Spencer Counties in Indiana during the predawn hours, killing 24, injuring 238, and doing $87 million in damages.  A large mobile home park was hit near the southern city limits of Evansville where 20 were killed.  This was the worst Indiana tornado since the super-outbreak of 1974.
Further to the south in the warm air, record high temperatures were at Meridian, MS: 86°, Baton Rouge, LA: 86°-Tied, New Orleans, LA: 85°-Tied and Galveston, TX: 83°.