What is the worst STORM that you have been through?

[Astro_man92]

What is the worst STORM not hurricane that you have been through?

Well for one when did it happen?

Can u remember part of/ or all of the date?

OPTIONAL: Now that we know when it happened describe the storm in a sentince or paragraph

First we need to go over some stuff that some or all of you may already know:

RR=Rainrate
C-C= Cloud to Cloud
C-G= Cloud to Ground
IPH= Inches per hour
SPM= Strikes per minute
then estimate how the storm was like this

Rain Rate= 0.00 IPH

Hail:yes or no

How big was the hail:

Tornado: if so how strong was it F0-F5

Max tornado wind gust:

Highest Wind gust produced by the storm:

Average wind speed through out the storm:

Lightning rate:
None = 0-
Low= 0-49 SPM
Med= 50-99 SPM
High=100+ SPM

Most common lighting type: either C-G or C-C

Average lighting intensity: Low, Med, and High

Length of the storm: 00:00 HRS:MIN

Your Intensity rating: 0/10-10/10

[Astro_man92]

Here is the worst I've been through

I remember that it happened sometime during the summer in 1999

I can't really describe it to it's fullest since I was young ( not saying that i'm not now)

Be here it goes. I remember waking up to thunder. It was about 11 o'clock at night. I was wondering what was happening so I turned it to the weather channel (I really liked the weather channel then) and seeing a bright read bar at the bottom of the screen. Briefly it basically said that there was a sever thunderstorm warning in the area and we had to stay away from the windows to avoid going blind because of the lightning. I was pretty scared because they were really making a HUGE deal about it. They were acting like it was the storm of the century. What really made me scared and nervous was he was speaking to me in a way. So even though it didn't seem like much just weather the way they where treating the moment shook me. About 20 to 40 minutes later me my mom and her room mate are long up now. There have been really strong winds that I'm surprised didn't affect the wall. And HUGE claps of thunder that shook me emotionally and physically. My mom and here roommate have been going around lighting candles all over. They were thinking that the power was going to go out. After as long as it had been it didn't seem like the power wasn't going to go out. So I went back into my room hoped on my bed and continued watching the weather channel. Then without warning the power went out. It surprised me then I got scared again after I had gotten over it the first time. Now it is about 1 o'clock in the morning. The storm doesn't seem to be letting up. My mom wanted to see what the lightning was like so she went to the window. I told her to get away from the window but she stood there for a sec then she walked away from the window. I don't remember much after that. I just remember that after 1:40 am my mom blew out all the candles. And we went back to bed. I didn't though I had to see this storm through to the end. But then next thing you know after you got used to the rain and the wind and the thunder. You sit there silently for a second and it is just silent. At that time it was about 2:12 am so I think the storm ended at around 2am. The next day my mom had to get my prescription. On the way there, there was a big tree about 3 feet wide split right down the middle. And they’re where several other trees that where blown down also.

Well that is all I remember

Rain Rate: my est. 2 inches an hour

Hail: yes

How big was the hail: pea sized

Tornado: no

Max wind gust produced by the storm: 80MPH NE

Average wind speed: 60MPH

Lightning rate: Med 50SPM

Most common lightning type: C-C

Lightning intensity: High

Length of storm: 03hours & 45 minutes

My intensity rating: 8/10

Share your experience if you want to

[Aslkahuna]

Obviously you mean thunderstorm-I have too many worst storms to count from all over the world. As far as regular storms, the worst would be a coastal storm in CA in February 1962 which had wind gusts in excess of 100 mph.

Steve

[hack]

Breifly it basicly said that there was a sever thunderstorm warning in the area and we had to stay away from the windows to avoid going blind because of the lightning.

Are you serious?

[aerojad]

Good god... nothing.

Southeastern Michigan has the most boring weather of anywhere east of the Rockies.

Snow, but never too deep. Storms, but never too damaging. Heat and cold, but never too extreme.

I'm a couple miles from Lake St. Clair. That makes it even worse. Storms always die out as they approach the cooler air over the lake. I feel jipped

[Astro_man92]

Good god... nothing.

Southeastern Michigan has the most boring weather of anywhere east of the Rockies.

Snow, but never too deep. Storms, but never too damaging. Heat and cold, but never too extreme.

I'm a couple miles from Lake St. Clair. That makes it even worse. Storms always die out as they approach the cooler air over the lake. I feel jipped

IKnow what you are getting at that storm that I described above was well very bad for up here we haven't had anything close to that since then. I mean NOTHING like it. It makes you hope for severe storms. And in the past couple years we haven't gotten as much snow as we used to . I bet that if a tropical storm somehow made it's way up here everyone wouldn't be scared but they'd be looking forward to it because they would be wondering what the heck it would be like! If we get that storm that I described above once a year well I don't know but weather wise up here it is also very boring. Every time a severe thunderstorm comes up here it starts to die out because of lake Michigan. Oh get this earlier this year a small SEVERE thunderstorm was coming up here without warning like the one above but it was a lot smaller. I heard that it took down power lines. Businesses had to close early and the roads where majorly flooded, it missed here by a mile! Stuff like that really makes you look forward to severe weather

[crzy]

i hope you get struck by lightning

[simplykristi]

June 8, 2005, and June 14, 2001 storms here.

June 8, 2005

We had severe storms blow thru. Winds were clocked at easily 70 MPH.

June 14, 2001

A storm with a funnel passed directly in front of my house.

Kristi

[AnthonyC]

Two storms in particular are worth mentioning:

1) December 1995 windstorm...sustained winds of 50-70mph G90+ in the greater Seattle region. 1 million+ people lost power and damage was estimated in the billions. At my house, we lost our fence and two monster trees fell in our backyard. We also lost power for an astounding 16 hours.

2) October 2003 SURPRISE windstorm...localized sustained winds of 40-60mph with G75+ in the Everett area. At my house, I clocked a gust at 68mph...trees literally pilled on streets and sidewalks...we lost power for 12 hours...school was cancelled...damage was estimated in the millions. The big shock about this storm was how sudden/quick it came and went.

Anthony

[Aslkahuna]

That 1995 storm also had a pressure down around 956mb when it came onshore.

Steve

[ict1523]

Oh too many to list just one...let's see, a storm in Minnesota, with torrential rain, damaging wind, pebble sized hail, cloud to ground lightning, totally dark at 6PM!, and I saw a funnel.

Several years ago when I was a kid, watching a great windstorm that accompanied a thunderstorm, tree fell right in front of my house, blocked the door so you couldn't get out from the front, and landed about 1" in front of the window, I got scared the hell out. Wind gusts must have been in excess of 60mph since no other t-storm with gusts approaching that has knocked anything but branches down.

Derecho of 1998, winds gusting to 60mph or more, tons of cloud to groud lightning, torrential rain, very loud thunder.

August 18 (give or take a few days), 2005, wind gust 44mph, max rain rate 13.60", cloud to ground lightning, loudest deafening thunder I've ever heard, tons of flooding.

[snoopj]

5/4/03 Storms in the Kansas City metro area.

Rated F1 at the time as it passed within 1/2 mile of my apartment complex. I remember watching this big black cloud o' Doom work it's way over towards my apartment complex. I couldn't see the funnel itself, as it was rain wrapped, but I got back into my shelter area just as the lawn area around my apartment building was having insulation and other debris land in it.

That same tornado roared back up to F4 damage a few minutes later as it smashed a housing district.

After looking at the damage path, that thing had a direct line to my apartment complex, but took a more northern track and ended up smashing into a pool hall/bar and wrecking a few homes before leaving the ground. It then did the F4 damage when the funnel hit the ground again.

--snoopj

[Stormy1]

The Sept. 20, 2002 tornados that ripped up the Greenwood, IN and south Indianapolis, IN were pretty awful. I stood outside and watched them from my front yard. However, the Memorial Day tornados of 2004 were some of the most devastating and terrifying. One was within a 1/4 mile of my home and like a dummy, I stood outside and filmed it. It wasn't so thrilling when I saw the damage the next day.

The absolute worst was on June 11, 1998. I stayed on the phone with the NWS as a rogue cell tossed down an F0 almost in my front yard. It grew to an F3 over Cumberland, IN and to an F4 by the time it reached Greenfield.

[texasweatherwatcher]

I may live in stormy North Texas, but the weather in the part of North Texas where I live is boring. We never get severe weather here. But, here is the absolute strongest storm I've seen:

Date: Around June 10, 2005
Rain Rate: 1 inch an hour
No hail.
No Tornado.
Highest Wind Gust: only 40 mph!
Average wind speed: 20 mph
Lightning Rate: 10 strokes a minute
Most common lightning type: C-C
Low lightning intensity
Storm Length: Approx. 2 hours
My Intensity Rating: 3/10

Again, this was the absolute strongest storm I've ever experienced.

[TuesdaysGirl]

Hello, Texasweatherwatcher. I am from north Texas too. When I was a baby I survived the F5 tornado that came through Wichita Falls in April of 1979. It came right through my parents living room and all that was left of the apartment we were in was a two-foot section of the closet we were hiding in. So that was absolutely the worst storm I have ever lived through but I remember nothing about it.

[WindRunner]

A little squall line that moved through on January 23 this year gave us some wind (measured a very protected 40mph gust!), but not much rain.

Worst storm, September 17, 2004:
We were kept in school late because of an earlier tornado warning for the county. They let us out a half-hour late and cancelled all sports practices, so I got to go home at 3pm. By 5:30, we were under our third tornado warning of the day, and the storm really started to pick up. A dark cloud passed about .5-1 mile SW of our house, but our 40ft high row of pine trees blocked the view, and my parents wouldn't let me run out to look through the hole in the trees. Next day we discover that it was an F3 that came so close, and was one of several tornadoes that moved through the county that day. About 45min after that incident, we saw these strange wispy clouds spinning around in the corn field about 150m to the NE of our house. They looked just like the wind-blown cirrus you see in the sky on a pretty day, but were very light gray and spun like leaves on a windy day. It kept getting taller and shorter, but stayed on the ground with no apparent connection to the clouds above it. It continued like this for about 15 min, slowly moving about a half mile before dissapating.

My station reports for the day:

Max rain rate: .6in/hr
Total rain: 1.57" (mostly after this moved through)
Peak wind: 15.88mph (very protected from those pine trees - within 20ft of them)
Min pressure: 29.51"
Common lightning to the north and northwest.
Medium intensity, even CG and CC distribution.

Will have NWS link for that day's tornado outbreak in a moment.

[WindRunner]

Hmmm, they must have taken it down. Anyway, there were three or four tornadoes reported in our county alone that day, and a total of 17 (I think) across the LWX area. The F3 was the strongest tornado in our county since 1929.

[7400ft]

The blizzard of '97, eastern CO.
Dead livestock, ten foot drifts running 100's of yards in all directions; after loaders finally cleared some roads the snow was piled 20-30ft high; they had to chopper in and drop feed for deer, and livestock; the livestock were all still in summer pasture, many got stuck in drifts walking the summer trails which were suddenly 4-5ft deep in snow.
My horses, thankfully, stayed out of the barn; many horses inside barns suffocated as the barns filled to the roofs with snow.
The wind......was awful.
The scariest 48 hours Ive ever spent.

[mcw]

Summer - thunderstorms for hours one night when I was 7. Fierce winds, trees down, torrential rains, hail. Power and phones were out. Lightning hit the propane tank and started a fire on our kitchen wall behind the stove. We just had an electric stove put in because my little brother could reach the controls on the gas stove and kept turning on the burners. The valve and pipe were still connected to the tank, and the wall was on fire. My mom threw a wet blanket over us and we went out and sat in the car with the hail bouncing off the roof and the lightning flashing almost constantly. My stepdad put it out by sticking his thumb over the end of the pipe while my mom threw water on it. My stepdad went to the tank and shut the gas off, then we went back in.