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Weather History: November 9: Record Heat, Cold, Snow, Blizzard, Severe Storms, Tornadoes & Flooding
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Listed are Meteorological events that happened on November 9th:
1864
A tornado in southeastern Missouri crossed the Mississippi River into southwestern Illinois, affecting the areas around Chester and Richview. A ferry boat on the river was hit with much of the debris being blown over a quarter mile. Four people in Chester were killed when the late-night tornado destroyed 14 houses. Half of the town of Chester was destroyed and as many as 20 people were killed overall.
1913
On this date through the 11th, a massive storm that became known as the “Freshwater Fury” or the “White Hurricane” sank numerous ships on the Great Lakes and caused millions of dollars in damage across Michigan. This storm was one of the deadliest and most destructive natural disasters to hit the Great Lakes, killing more than 250 people while wrecking 19 ships and stranding 19 others. The financial loss in vessels alone was nearly $5 million 1913 dollars. Lost cargo, such as coal, iron ore, and grain was estimated at over 68,000 tons. Cleveland, OH reported 17.4 inches of snow in 24 hours, and a total of 22.2 inches, both all-time records. During the storm, winds at Cleveland averaged 50 mph, with gusts to 79 mph. The storm produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Buffalo, NY, and buried Pickens, WV under three feet of snow.
1921
The greatest 24 hour rainfall in Israel history fell at Haifa as 10.73 inches was recorded.
1926
A tornado doing F4 damage in Charles County in southern Maryland killed 17 people. The twister with winds estimated at 250 mph touched down about 5 miles southwest of La Plata at about 2:30 PM. It moved northeast through La Plata and continued on the ground traveling 18 miles in 20 to 25 minutes to Cedarville in Prince Georges County. Its damage path was about 500 feet in width. The tornado's roar was heard up to three miles away. From this description in Monthly Weather Review for November 1926, the "vortex swayed from side to side as it progressed", it was likely a multi-vortex tornado. At some places, the tornado actual cut or "furrowed into the soil". In La Plata, four homes, several large barns and the schoolhouse were completely destroyed. The schoolhouse, with its 60 children and two teachers was lifted from its foundation and smashed against a grove of trees 50 feet away. Debris from the school, children's belongings, and school furnishings were scattered in all directions. Some of the children were carried 500 feet and the body of one child was found in the top branches of a tree 300 feet away. Parts of desks were found seven miles away. Some of the wreckage of the schoolhouse was found deposited in a field a mile north of Upper Marlboro, 25 miles away. A page from a school ledger was found in Bowie, 36 miles to the north-northeast. Just over six miles from Annapolis, almost 50 miles from La Plata, an 8-foot by 2-foot piece of galvanized roofing from the school was found. Of the school, 14 children were killed. The two teachers and all the other children but one were injured. Additional four homes were badly damaged and 14 tobacco barns and their contents of 4,000 to 7,000 pounds of tobacco were a total loss. At Cedarville, one home, one store, and four barns were destroyed. Several other homes were badly damaged. Six families were left homeless. The clerk of the general store was sucked out the front door, across the road, and slammed against a telephone pole where the wind tore his trousers off of him. On a farm, a barn in which a horse and cow were feeding was picked up and carried away, leaving the animals in their places uninjured. Chicken were de-feathered. In the destruction of homes, three people were killed and 9 people were injured. Structures, trees, and telephone poles in the path of the tornado were all leveled. A number of automobiles were demolished. Damages were estimated at $100,000 (1926 dollars). A total of 17 people were known to have died with 60 reported injured. The weather pattern an intense low-pressure area was moving rapidly northeast from central Indiana to extreme southern Ontario. A trough extended south from the low center over the region. About the same time as the tornado struck La Plata, a thunderstorm dropped 0.65 inches of rain at Washington, D.C. in just 9 minutes.
1977
A major blizzard struck the eastern two-thirds of South Dakota, western Minnesota, and northwest Iowa through the 10th. A strong area of low pressure moved from northeast Colorado across north central Iowa bringing a variety of problems to the region. On the 8th, the storm began as rain with temperatures in the 50's in most areas. The tri-state area was then coated with freezing rain and sleet before the precipitation changed to snow.
Up to 6 inches of snow fell in northwest Iowa with wind gusts up to 65 mph making travel impossible. Amounts were generally 4 to 12 inches across eastern South Dakota with gusts to 70 mph. Portions of western Minnesota were the hardest hit with snow amounts up to 14 inches and winds howling up to 80 mph. Drifts piled up to 8 feet deep across portions of Minnesota. Hundreds of cars were stranded across the area as the snow piled up. Two of the stranded vehicles were trucks transporting turkeys. As the temperatures plunged about half of the turkeys were prematurely frozen. The winds also blew down trees, power lines, and several radio towers.
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1982
Seven tornadoes touched down in southern California, three of which began as waterspouts off of Point Mugu, Malibu and Long Beach. The Long Beach tornado traveled inland 10 miles causing extensive damage. The other two tornadoes were in Garden Grove and Mission Viejo.
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1987
Showers and gusty winds associated with a cold front helped extinguish forest fires in the Appalachian Region and clear out smoke in the eastern U.S.
Thunderstorms produced locally heavy rains from eastern Texas to the Tennessee Valley. Longview, TX received 3.12 inches of rain, including two inches in two hours. Tupelo, MS was soaked with 2.80 inches of rain.
1988
Thunderstorms developing ahead of a strong cold front produced severe weather from eastern Oklahoma to central Indiana. Hail more than two inches in diameter was reported around Tulsa, OK.
1989
High winds prevailed along the eastern slopes of the Rockies from the afternoon of the 8th into the early morning hours of the 9th. Winds of 50 to 80 mph prevailed across the northwest chinook area of Wyoming, with gusts to 100 mph. Winds in Colorado gusted to 97 mph at Fritz Peak, located near Rollinsville the previous evening and early in the morning on this date, gusted to 78 mph west of Fort Collins.
1991
Canadian high pressure over the Great Lakes was responsible for record lows from Texas to the Ohio Valley and Gulf Coast including: Peoria, IL: 9°, Springfield, IL: 9°, Moline, IL: 10°, Columbia, MO: 11°, Dubuque, IA: 12°, Mansfield, OH: 12°, Toledo, OH: 12°, Lansing, MI: 12°-Tied, Dayton, OH: 13°, Flint, MI: 14°, Chicago, IL: 14°, Paducah, KY: 14°, Des Moines, IA: 15°, Fort Wayne, IN: 15°, St. Louis, MO: 16°, Grand Rapids, MI: 17, Evansville, IN: 17, Indianapolis, IN: 17, Lexington, KY: 17, Detroit, MI: 18, Akron, OH: 18°, Columbus, OH: 18°, Cincinnati, OH: 19°, Youngstown, OH: 19°-Tied, Little Rock, AR: 20°, Jackson, KY: 20°, Louisville, KY: 20°, Memphis, TN: 20°, Fort Smith, AR: 21°, Springfield, MO: 21°-Tied, Nashville, TN: 22°, Shreveport, LA: 23°, Kansas City, MO: 23°, Austin (Bergstrom), TX: 26°, Baton Rouge, LA: 26°, Lake Charles, LA: 28°, Dallas (DFW), TX: 28°-Tied, Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX: 29°, Houston, TX: 29°, San Angelo, TX: 29°, San Antonio, TX: 29°, Mobile, AL: 30°-Tied, Victoria, TX: 32°, New Orleans, LA: 32°, Corpus Christi TX: 34° and Galveston, TX: 36°.
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1995
High gradient winds not associated with thunderstorms downed a power line which touched off a grass fire near Galena, KS. The fire consumed 300 acres of grass and timber, along with a house and a mobile home.
1996
Up to 20 inches of lake effect snow fell between Grand Haven and New Buffalo, MI. On this date through the 14th, 40 inches of lake effect snow fell in portions of northern Lower Michigan.
1998
A tremendous storm system moved across the Plains states through the 10th, producing record low barometric pressure readings across parts of Iowa: 28.54 inHg and Minnesota: 28.43 inHg the next day. The storm, one of the strongest on record in the Midwest, was reminiscent of the storm that caused the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975.
A late night F3 tornado struck parts of Columbia, MO shortly after midnight. Miraculously, no one was killed, but 16 people were injured and damage totaled $6 million dollars.
1999
For the third day in a row, record warmth occurred across the Midwest. Some of the record highs for November included: Kimball, NE: 83°, Osage, IA: 77°, Preston, MN: 76°, Sparta, WI: 76° and Marquette, MI: 73° (broke previous record by 14 degrees).
Other daily record highs included: Grand Island, NE: 79°, Topeka, KS: 79°, Chattanooga, TN: 79°, Norfolk, NE: 78°, North Platte, NE: 78°, Columbia, MO: 78°, Kansas City, MO: 78°, Concordia, KS: 77°, Des Moines, IA: 77°, Moline, IL: 77°, Oak Ridge, TN: 77°, Indianapolis, IN: 76°, Waterloo, IA: 75°, La Crosse, WI: 75°, Milwaukee, WI: 75°, Alpena, MI: 75°, Detroit, MI: 75°, South Bend, IN: 75°, Lincoln, NE: 74°, Dubuque, IA: 74°, Green Bay, WI: 74°, Chicago, IL: 74°, Rockford, IL: 74°, Toledo, OH: 74°, Fort Wayne, IN: 74°-Tied, Sioux Falls, SD: 73°, Omaha, NE: 73°, Madison, WI: 73°, Flint, MI: 73°, Lansing, MI: 73°, Sioux City, IA: 73°-Tied, Mansfield, OH: 72°, Youngstown, OH: 72°-Tied, Duluth, MN: 71°, Rochester, MN: 71°, Minneapolis, MN: 70°, Houghton Lake, MI: 69°-Tied, St. Cloud, MN: 68° and Ste. St. Marie, MI: 67°.
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2001
Heavy rains fell at Algiers, Algeria in just a few hours, more than the average month's total of 3.7 inches. Massive floods and mudslides devastated northern Algeria and killed more than 700 people causing nearly $300 million in damage.
2002
Laden with tropical moisture, an early season winter storm brought gusty winds and snow to the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada in California and heavy rains to the lower elevations. At Chagoopa Plateau, a storm total of 80 inches of snow was recorded. Up to the 10 inches of rain fell in the foothills, with the town of Johnsondale receiving 16.38 inches of rain in just three days beginning on the 7th through the 10th. Numerous roads were closed due to flooding and mudslides with many residents losing power.
5.68 inches fell at Idyllwild, their greatest daily amount on record for November. Incredibly, no rain at all fell just on the other side of the mountain at Palm Springs.
Rain finally extinguished the Biscuit Fire which had burned nearly 500,000 acres in parts of northern California and southern Oregon. The wildfire began on July 13th and was caused by lightning. The fire cost more than $154 million dollars in firefighting costs. The 2002 fire season was the second biggest in the U.S. in 50 years, as 6.7 million acres burned. Firefighting costs for the year totaled over $1.4 billion dollars.
2005
A rare November F1 tornado occurred in Hamilton, Ontario Canada, hitting a local school about 4 PM and lasted 10 minutes. Two students were slightly injured.
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