Signal: Great Lakes megastorm Oct. 2010
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Chiclone megastorm lights up Great Lakes skies

by on 27. Oct, 2010 in Uncategorized

Tornadoes, violent thunderstorms, and torrential rains swept through a large portion of the nation’s midsection yesterday, thanks to the strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest. NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center logged 24 tornado reports and 282 reports of damaging high winds from yesterday’s spectacular storm, and the storm continues to produce a wide variety of [...]

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Growth of Chiclone megstorm described as “bombogenesis”

by on 27. Oct, 2010 in Uncategorized

The featured chart presents an IEM computed analysis of the surface low minimum pressure from Monday afternoon thru Tuesday. The low pressure center developed in Kansas and then rapidly intensified as it moved to the north and east into Minnesota. The values shown set various records for all time lowest pressure and may go down [...]

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Megastorm “Chiclone” sets record for most intense storm in USA

by on 27. Oct, 2010 in Uncategorized

October Superstorm. Lowest Pressure On Record For The USA. Welcome to the Land of 10,000 Weather Extremes. Yesterday a rapidly intensifying storm, a “bomb”, spun up directly over the MN Arrowhead, around mid afternoon a central pressure of 953 millibars was observed near Orr. That’s 28.14″ of mercury. Bigfork, MN reported 955 mb, about 28.22″ [...]

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Most intense storm ever hits Great Lakes

by on 27. Oct, 2010 in Uncategorized

Tornadoes, violent thunderstorms, and torrential rains swept through a large portion of the nation’s midsection yesterday, thanks to the strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest. NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center logged 24 tornado reports and 282 reports of damaging high winds from yesterday’s spectacular storm, and the storm continues to produce a wide variety of [...]