Category Archives: Severe Weather Events

Recent Severe Weather Events on Land or Sea

Record Rainfall in Fort Lauderdale

Reord rainfall in Fort Lauderdale. A stationary supercell thunderstorm that centered itself near Fort Lauderdale, Florida produced prolonged periods of 3+ inch hourly rainfalls creating widespread flooding. Continue reading

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Pacific Hurricane Force Storm

A rapidly intensifying low over the west-central North Pacific will move ENE to NE producing storm to hurricane force winds Continue reading

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Late July Heavy Rains and Flooding in the Midwest

Heavy rain fell north of a stationary front (a boundary between warm humid air and cooler air to the north) across southern Missouri and Illinois, and eastward into Kentucky. Strong low-level winds (around 5,000 feet) brought in high amounts of low-level moisture which interacted with the front and with an upper-level jet stream to the north and produced a mesoscale convective system (complex of thunderstorms moving across the same area for more than 6 hours). Continue reading

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