A cold front moved south out of the Texas panhandle on May 6th, and was draped across north Texas on the 7th and 8th. The front stalled across the northwestern sections of north Texas and combined to produce severe thunderstorms including large hail, tornadoes, and flash…
Read the full account →A cluster of thunderstorms producing very heavy rain sank south in the Charlotte metro area shortly before midnight of the 23rd and continued to redevelop over the area through mid-morning. Severe flash flooding resulted as nearly 10 inches of rain fell in some spots.
Read the full account →Abundant gulf moisture streamed northward across the central US in between high pressure over the mid Atlantic and low pressure over the southwest US. Heavy rainfall occurred over central and southwest Missouri from the evening of the 17th to the morning of the 18th.
Read the full account →During Friday, June 20th, very warm, moist and unstable air was in place across much of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, ahead of a strong, slow-moving cold front across the western Great Lakes region.
Read the full account →The synoptic setup for this event featured an upper level ridge over the central U.S. with several strong short-waves topping the ridge and dropping southeast across the Ohio Valley toward the central Appalachians.
Read the full account →Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast early Monday morning August 29, 2005 as a large category four hurricane. Sustained winds were around 145 mph in southeast Louisiana. Katrina continued northward affecting areas from New Orleans to Mobile.
Read the full account →Widespread heavy rainfall began to fall again through the mid morning of the 18th. General 3 to 4 inch amounts were reported with totals nearing 10 inches south and west of Uvalde. Severe flash flooding developed very quickly in Uvalde County.
Read the full account →On the morning of August 30th Tropical Storm Irma developed rapidly over the eastern Atlantic Ocean, just west of the Cape Verde Islands. Tropical Irma quickly strengthened as it moved west, reaching hurricane strength by the morning of August 31st.
Read the full account →Hurricane Katrina will likely go down as the worst and costliest natural disaster in United States history. The amount of destruction, the cost of damaged property/agriculture and the large loss of life across the affected region has been overwhelming.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ike came onshore across extreme southeast Texas during the late night hours of September 12th and the pre-dawn hours of September 13th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Gustav moved northwestward into the southeast Louisiana coast during the early morning hours of September 1st. The storm continued a steady northwestward motion into east central Louisiana and northwest Louisiana during the evening hours of September 1st.
Read the full account →Flash flooding and scattered severe thunderstorms struck parts of south-central and southeast Wisconsin during the afternoon and evening hours. Several clusters of showers and thunderstorms moved east/northeast at 35 to 40 mph across the area.
Read the full account →A historic flash flood and record rainfall occurred over portions of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area and Southeast WI resulting in damages in the $100s Millions.
Read the full account →Delta first developed into a tropical depression in the Caribbean just south of Jamaica on the afternoon of October 4th. As it tracked across the western Caribbean, it rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane.
Read the full account →Rainfall of 3 to 6 inches caused scattered flash flooding across parts of Iron, Madison and Reynolds counties. Numerous county roads were flooded. The heavy rain washed out the ground under railroad tracks between Sabula and Annapolis in Iron County.
Read the full account →A thunderstorm which developed over central Oahu moved over to the windward side of Oahu. As much as 0.73 of an inch in fifteen minutes was recorded after 5:00 pm.
Read the full account →An anomalously-warm and moist air mass was in place across much of the Central Plains and Midwest, resulting in strong to perhaps extreme instability in addition to tropical-like precipitable water values exceeding 2.0 inches.
Read the full account →Delta first developed into a tropical depression in the Caribbean just south of Jamaica on the afternoon of October 4th. As it tracked across the western Caribbean, it rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane.
Read the full account →Widespread showers and thunderstorms over the three counties produced general rainfall of 1 to 2 inches, with isolated totals of up to 6 inches between Seguin, Stockdale and Floresville. Numerous rural roads and low water crossings were closed.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the early morning hours across northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas in response to an approaching upper level disturbance and increasing low level jet.
Read the full account →The eye of Hurricane Rita moved ashore in extreme southwest Louisiana between Sabine Pass and Johnson's Bayou In Cameron Parish with a minimum central pressure of 937 mb and maximum sustained winds of 120 mph.
Read the full account →Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in the Big Bend region of Florida at 11 PM EDT. Helene moved quickly inland bringing wind gusts between 50 and 100 mph to portions of east and central Georgia.
Read the full account →Hurricane Bonnie moved just offshore of southeast Virginia on August 27th and 28th. Very strong winds and heavy rains associated with Bonnie's spiral bands hammered the Hampton Roads area Thursday evening into Friday morning.
Read the full account →Hurricane Francine formed as a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico on September 9, 2024, and intensified into a Category 2 hurricane before making landfall near Houma, Louisiana, on the morning of September 11.
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