Posts Tagged ‘Severe Storms’

A low aloft over the Hawaiian Islands was responsible for bringing rare severe weather Monday afternoon. The storms produced small hail, flash flooding, and even multiple water spouts. Hawaiian Electric Company reported that approximately 60,000 customers lost power, likely due to lightning that struck two major transmission lines. The power outage left people trapped in [...]

A storm system charging across the Plains will trigger violent thunderstorms from Dallas to Columbus, Ohio tonight and Saturday, creating dangerous conditions as the weekend begins. The thunderstorms will threaten areas from Oklahoma into the Ohio Valley, erupting as cooler air diving across the Plains clashes with the warm, moist air in place. A few [...]

Powerful storms pounded parts of Mississippi and Alabama with heavy rain, thunderstorms and numerous tornadoes Friday. There were numerous reports of damage to homes, businesses, vehicles and an oil refinery near Melvin, Alabama, but no immediate word of injuries in the outbreak. Several businesses were damaged in Clinton, Mississippi, state Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeff [...]

A storm moving into California will crawl eastward over the next couple of days, unfolding into a major snowstorm as it ramps up to the lee of the Rockies and emerges onto the Plains early this week. The snowstorm will track across the central Rockies Monday and Monday night before emerging into the south-central Plains [...]

A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive “superstorm” that could flood a quarter of the state’s homes and cause $300 billion to $400 billion in damage. Researchers point out that the potential scale of destruction in this storm scenario is [...]

Losses are still being assessed off the eastern Mediterranean Sea in the aftermath of a severe weekend storm that struck from Egypt to Turkey and beyond. The storm unleashed damaging winds, widespread blowing dust, torrential rain and even heavy snow. In Egypt, which was hit by blinding dust storms and torrential rain, the death toll [...]

The blizzard that pummeled the Upper Midwest over the weekend was one for the record books, burying some communities with nearly 2 feet of snow and breaking 100-year-old records in others. Even all the way to the South, new records have been set as snow and brutally cold air blasted in behind the storm. Minnesota [...]

As noticeably cooler air dives into the South today, the danger of damaging thunderstorms has shifted to the eastern Carolinas and neighboring parts of Georgia. Today is starting with a band of showers and thunderstorms draped across the South. Frequent lightning and blinding downpours are possible with any of these thunderstorms as they shift southeastward [...]

Thunderstorms threaten to cause flash flooding and turn severe over Southern California and Arizona today. This puts Phoenix and Las Vegas in the line of fire of severe thunderstorms again. A stubborn storm that has been causing rounds of stormy weather in the Southwest is shifting from Southern California into Arizona today. It will once [...]

Thunderstorms, some severe, will rumble across the Northeast early tonight. Those heading out tonight could be forced into messy commuting weather and may want to take along an umbrella. Heavy showers and thunderstorms which hit upstate New York and western New England earlier in the day will push into the I-95 corridor as a cold [...]