 DISCUSSION: As we look back to March 24th, 1975, there was a very historic severe weather event which took place across many parts of north-central Georgia. On this particular day, there was a low pressure system positioned to the west of the greater Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area. As a result of the low pressure system being situated to the west of north-central Georgia, many places (e.g., cities which include but are not limited to Atlanta, Georgia), were positioned within the warm front sector of this low pressure system. Hence, many parts of north-central Georgia were in a favorable location both with respect to strong warm air advection as well as a clockwise turning of the winds with height (i.e., from the surface). To learn more about this destructive and unfortunately deadly tornado which impacted sections of west Atlanta, Georgia, click the following link!
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 DISCUSSION: As we turn the clocks back to late March 1912, we arrive at a particularly historic snowstorm which impacted many people across parts of the Central Plains. As explained by the "This Day in Weather History" team on Facebook, between March 22nd and March 24th of 1912, there was a very impressive winter weather event which unfolded across areas from central-to-eastern Kansas to parts of western/central Missouri.
"During the period between March 22 and 24, 1912, residents in and around the greater Kansas City metropolitan area began to dig out from a storm that produced 25 inches of snow. A record 40.2 inches of snow fell during the month of March that year, and the total for the winter season of 67 inches was also a record in Kansas City. Furthermore, Olathe, Kansas received 37 inches of snow in the snowstorm alone." Thus, this was a far-reaching winter storm which had major impacts due in part to the fact that there was much more limited forms of snow removal and general communication ability at that point in history. Therefore, snowfall events of such a large magnitude in this part of the country and at that earlier point in the 20th century made for much more complicated and severe travel issues. To learn more about other past historic weather events from around the world, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz #winterstorm #Missouri #Kansas #kswx #mowx #whiteout #snowstorm Going Back to the Severe Weather Outbreak of March 1932! (credit: This Day in Weather History)3/22/2017  DISCUSSION: As we go all the way back to March 21st, 1932, we reach a truly historic and scary day in U.S. weather history. Between late afternoon and early the next morning on March 22nd, 1932, severe thunderstorms spawned 31 tornadoes in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. The tornadoes killed a total of 334 persons and injured 1,874 others. Northern Alabama ended up being the hardest hit state during this particular severe weather outbreak as tornadoes across the state of Alabama killed 286 persons and caused five million dollars damage. Thus, this was a very long and scary day for many people across a good portion of the Southeast U.S. as this severe weather event unfolded. It is also worth noting that this particular severe weather event occurred at a period in history in which there was no Doppler radar or satellite monitoring of Earth's atmosphere which made the convective forecast that much more difficult across the southeastern U.S.
To learn more about other past historic weather events from around the world, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz  DISCUSSION: As we look back to March 20th, 1948, there was quite a historic an scary event across central to eastern Oklahoma as well as points to the east. As reflected by the direct excerpt from the "This Day in Weather History" page on Facebook, this was a very complicated and dangerous day which is surely remembered by all those that experienced this terrifying early Spring severe weather event.
"An F3 tornado tracked through Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, OK just before 10 p.m. destroying 54 aircraft, including 17 transport planes valued at $500,000 dollars apiece. Total damage amounted to more than $10 million dollars, a record for the state that stood until the massive tornado outbreak of 5/3/1999. Major Ernest W. Fawbush and Captain Robert C. Miller were ordered to see if operationally forecasting tornadoes were possible. Looking at this event, forecasters at Tinker believed conditions were again favorable for tornadoes and issued the first recorded tornado forecast. Five days later on 3/25 at 6 pm, predicted tornado occurred, crossing the prepared base and damage was minimized. The successful, albeit somewhat lucky forecast, paved the way for tornado forecasts to be issued by the U.S. Weather Bureau after a lengthy ban." To learn more about this particular event, feel free to click on the following link! To learn more about other past historic weather events from around the world, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz  DISCUSSION: As we get closer to the start of our next major East Coast snowstorm here in 2017, this post takes us all the way back to March of 1888. Although there are just over 129 years between the Blizzard of 1888 and this upcoming major snowstorm (and likely blizzard of 2017), there are major differences between these respective events. During the period of time from March 11th to 14th, 1888, there was an impressive prolonged winter storm which impacted many parts of the East Coast anywhere from Maryland to Maine. The Great Blizzard of 1888 paralyzed the east coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine on March 11 through the 14th. The blizzard dumped as much as 55 inches of snow in some areas, and snow drifts of 30 to 40 feet were reported. An estimated 400 people died from this blizzard. To see more pictures from this historic winter storm from more than a century ago, feel free to click here!
To learn more about past historic weather events, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz Reflecting on Rare F-1 Tornado in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! (credit: This Day in Weather History)3/8/2017  DISCUSSION: As we turn the clocks back to March 8th, 2000, people across certain parts of northeastern Wisconsin, there was quite a history weather event that unfolded. On this particular day, a rare, out of season F-1 tornado struck the cities of Milwaukee, Cudahy, and St. Francis Wisconsin during the early evening hour. This tornado is the earliest on record for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Despite the fact that this tornadic event occurred during the modern era, it is worth noting that this event definitely caught many people by surprise due to the rare nature of such an event in this region of the United States. To learn more about this event, feel free to click on the following link!
To learn more about other past historic weather events from around the world, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz Remembering the Great New England Snowstorms of 1717! (credit: This Day in Weather History)3/8/2017  DISCUSSION: As we turn the clocks back a whopping 300 years or so, we arrive at the period of concern which extended from February 27th to March 7th of 1717. It was during this period of time that a series of intense snowstorms pushed through coastal as well as semi-interior sections of New England. As a result of these successive snowstorms, there were many reports from that time of at least 5 feet of snowfall deposited across many parts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Based on the limited information at hand, there is a good likelihood that these successive snowstorms were induced by persistent meridional flow regimes which allowed for several consecutive rounds of cold air masses matching up with coastal low pressure systems moving up the East Coast. Nonetheless, at that point in time, this was a incredibly high-impact winter weather event based on the limited ability to communicate forecast information as well as being able to effectively recover from the consecutive winter blasts during that 1.5 week time-frame. To learn more about this particular period of historic winter weather, feel free to click here!
To learn more about other past historic weather events from around the world, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz  DISCUSSION: Looking back between March 2nd and 5th of 1966, there was quite a historic winter weather event across the North-Central United States. The historic blizzard of 1966, which started on March 2nd, came to an end across the Dakotas at the back-end of this 4-day period. North Dakota experienced severe livestock losses with an estimated 18,500 cattle, 7,500 sheep, and 600 hogs killed. On a farm in eastern North Dakota, 7,000 turkeys perished. Hence, the total loss of livestock was estimated at near $4 million dollars based on currency rates in the modern day. In South Dakota, an estimated 50,000 cattle, 46,000 sheep, and 1,800 hogs were killed. Most of the deaths occurred in the central and north-central part of the state. Thus, this was a winter weather event which had profound impacts on the region at the time due to its longer duration.
To learn more about other past historic weather events from around the world, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz Rewinding Back to the 2012 March Severe Weather Outbreak! (credit: This Day in Weather History)3/2/2017  DISCUSSION: By looking back to the period between March 2nd and 3rd of 2012, we arrive at a very scary couple of weather days in recent history. During this 2-day period back in 2012, a large area of strong to Severe storms impacted a large section of the southern United States as well as areas stretching into the Ohio Valley Region. These storms produced 70 confirmed tornadoes and over 700 reports of severe winds and hail. The storms killed 41, including 22 in Kentucky alone as noted by the "This Day in Weather History" page on Facebook. To see a very neat, interactive page with all of the verified storm reports from that particular severe weather outbreak, feel free to click on the following link!
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DISCUSSION: As we look all the way back to March 1st, 2007, many across the Southeast are reminded of an incredibly terrifying day. On this day, a low pressure system was moving across several states located in the north-central United States. Due to the position of this low pressure system, there was a favorable position for the warm front sector as it was positioned across a large majority of the southeastern United States. Thus, the positioning of this warm sector allowed for a plethora of warm, moist air to move across the southeastern U.S. As this occurred through overnight hours and continued right through the early-to-mid morning hours of March 1st, this generated an increasingly more conducive environment for the development of severe thunderstorms with particularly strong updrafts. Moreover, the presence of a change in both the speed and direction of regional winds with increasing height also facilitated the presence of what is referred to as vertical wind shear (i.e., with respect to both wind speed and wind direction).
This combination combined to generate a regional vertical wind profile which rotated clockwise with height with allowed for the updrafts within the most intense thunderstorms to develop rotation. Thus, the combination of warm, moist air (and high levels of convective instability) as well as rotating updrafts led to the development of supercell thunderstorms capable of producing large, long-tracked, and very destructive tornadoes. Therefore, as noted above for this one particular supercell thunderstorm (and which also occurred with many other supercell thunderstorms on this particular day), many communities experienced terrible destruction and heartbreak as these violent storms moved through on that first day of March back in 2007. To read more about this tornado and the entire day as a whole, feel free to click any of following links (Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, and Link 4). To learn more about other past historic weather events occurring around the world, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz |
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