Abnormal Weather

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It was a hot day, in Boston, a few years ago. Weatherman was in a state of hysteria.
102f, he said. I went to Medford. 104f said the sign, at the bank.

Weatherman who Blogs for Patch Seeks New World Record High in Death Valley
June 28, 2013

Martin said he's taking his mom, Carolyn Martin, 63, of Hesperia, because she found out about his trip and asked to go along.
Martin said they're going to take her car, a relatively new Honda Accord, which has working air conditioning and good tires.

http://redlands.patch.com/groups/br...h-seeks-new-world-record-high-in-death-valley

Chances are, he might get what he is seeking- The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning
for the Redlands-Loma Linda area and most of Southern California from 10 a.m. Saturday to 8 p.m. Sunday.

What is a red flag warning ?

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/vef/

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED
FLAG WARNING FOR DRY THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS...
WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING.

* AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 478 SALT LAKE DESERT...FIRE
WEATHER ZONE 492 CENTRAL UTAH WEST DESERT AND FIRE WEATHER
ZONE 495 COLOR COUNTRY WEST DESERT.

* THUNDERSTORMS...ISOLATED DRY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
REDEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN VALLEYS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND
WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING BEFORE DIMINISHING.

* OUTFLOW WINDS...GUSTY AND ERRATIC OUTFLOW WINDS ARE TYPICAL
NEAR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.

* IMPACTS...NEW FIRE STARTS DUE TO LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE
CONSIDERING THE HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS.

In the meantime, in New England, the rain, it raineth, everyday. Cool, soggy, and erratic. Have a nice flood.

 

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The National Weather Service's thermometer recorded a peak temperature of 128 degrees in Death Valley National Park,
which ties the record for the hottest June day anywhere in the country.

However, the Los Angeles Times reports that the National Park Service thermometer — 200 yards away — recorded
a temperature of 129.9, which shatters the record for June.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Southwest-braces-for-more-sizzling-temperatures-4638799.php

Meteorologists had expected the mercury to soar to about 130 degrees for the first time anywhere in the country in nearly a century.

The highest temperature ever recorded on Earth is 134 degrees, recorded in Death Valley on July 10, 1913.

The national park’s headquarters in Furnace Creek is 190 feet below sea level. Nearby Badwater, at 280 feet
below sea level, is the lowest spot in the Western Hemisphere.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...degrees-or-is-it-129-20130630,0,6477803.story

115F plus fire-too hot at Yarnell Hill, Arizona. I am very sorry to see that many died, while trying to control a fire.

http://www.azcentral.com/

 

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TORONTO – Record-smashing rains knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of residents across the Greater Toronto Area[....]

Mississauga, a city of more than 700,000, saw some of the worst of the blackouts with 80 per cent of the community plunged into the dark[...]

Environment Canada said some parts of the GTA had been drenched with more than 100 millimetres of rain, trouncing the previous one-day rainfall record of 29.2 mm in 2008 for Toronto and even beating the 74.4 mm monthly average for July.

Read the rest here.

The cost of the floods is likely to exceed the $600-million price tag of the cleanup after storms in 2005.

Craziness!

http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/images/toronto-flood-car-bum.jpg

 

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Philadelphia Shatters Record for the Heaviest Rain in a Day

July 29, 2013

This past Sunday-

A whopping 8.02 inches of rain fell at the Philadelphia International Airport, with 7.35 inches falling between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

-The 8.02 inches also established a new record for the most rain on any calendar day, breaking the previous record of 6.63 inches
on Sept. 16, 1999 during Tropical Storm Floyd.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/historical-rain-floods-the-phi/15878114

July 29, 2013

Cold weather has shattered records for cool and cold temperatures in parts of the Northern United States,
even with August just a couple of days away.

A cold upper level low has brought chilly temperatures over the weekend to states such as Minnesota,
Wisconsin, North Dakota, Iowa and surrounding areas.

More cold weather was expected in parts of these areas on Monday. A Frost Advisory was in effect for
far northern Minnesota, including places such as International Falls, from 2am to 7am Monday morning.

http://www.wtvy.com/weather/headlin...of-the-Northern-Plains-Midwest-217334981.html

Over ten years worth of time, hail has ceased to be an abnormal event in Massachusetts. Size still counts.
Today's golf ball sized hail was a surprise. Ping pong ball sized hail is so yesterday. It started with nonpareil size.

 

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The latest in severe storm weather trends- extreme lightning

The East Coast is the underachiever- with only 500 to 700 hundred strikes per storm.

New Hampshire seems to be singled out, lately.

The West Coast can boast of 1,000 to 2,000 strikes per storm.

 

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"After months of warnings about drought and tinder-dry forests ready to blow up in flame, the idea that rains would
drop as much water over two or three days as falls in a typical year seemed fanciful when this week began."

This week's floods recall some of this state's historic flashflood tragedies, several of which actually took many more lives.
The Big Thompson flood of 1976 was the deadliest, killing 144 and leaving many others injured.

September 13, 2013 People that cannot be accounted for-172 People who died because of the flood- 8

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews

September 13, 2013

Two experienced mountaineers are trapped below the summit of Longs Peak after recent storms blanketed the 14,259-foot peak in snow and ice.

Suzanne Turell and Connie Yang – both from York, Maine – sent a mobile phone text at 7:07 a.m. Thursday reading “We need help.
At top of Longs Peak. 13400 feet. Whiteout snowstorm. No injuries. Iced over risk of hypothermia.”

Ketschek said Rocky Mountain National Park rangers sent a small search party in Thursday but they were turned back by flooded roads
and closures before reaching the trailhead. A ground rescue was scheduled for early Friday but road closures remain on the eastern
edge of the park.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/sports/...-trapped-in-ice-storm-below-longs-peak/25526/

 

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Summer of 2013 likely one of the warmest ever for Anchorage
Jul 23, 2013

http://www.ktva.com/weather/weather-blog/Hot-2013-For-Anchorage-AK-216705011.html

Chilly July was fourth coldest in Anchorage history
August 2, 2012

July’s cold spell is yet another blow for Anchorage residents hoping for respite from a long, hard winter. This winter the city broke the all-time
snow record with more than 133 inches. That, mixed with cool summer weather, has left snow in the mountains surrounding Alaska’s largest city.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/chilly-july-was-fourth-coldest-anchorage-history

 

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Which western town, began October, with a four feet high clump of snow ?

2013 Storms- Bigger, Faster, more Powerful and Earlier (And more Frequent)

"This storm is a continuation of the weather patterns the area has seen all summer."

"We’ve been in a very active weather period," she said. "There were a lot of storms this summer. We saw a lot of hail and winds,
and this stormy pattern is continuing into the fall bringing us an early season winter storm."
- Melissa Smith with the National Weather Service

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/lo...cle_e9a0d35a-8f11-5e4f-9013-2ba106670dce.html

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/bl...cle_8a2a9fb0-ae1c-538b-8905-f2559836c5b3.html

Unusual storm system

The storm took an intriguing path to becoming a blizzard —
starting as sprinkles of rain Thursday afternoon, then progressing into a thunderstorm, and finally a snowstorm by early morning.

"We all were warned, and yet it was still shocking on Friday to see the horizontal snowflakes, downed trees, powerless homes, wrecked cars
and an entire region nearly brought to a standstill by a raging blizzard that hit Western South Dakota just four days into October."

"The mix of rain, snow and eventual freezing temperatures challenged power companies as snow and ice piled on trees and power lines,
knocking out power across the area."

"The early October blizzard in western South Dakota is dumping snow by the foot on parts of the scenic Black Hills."
- Eric Helgeson, National Weather Service meteorologist

(Welcome to New England style, when the snow is not light, fluffy snow flakes. Say hello, to wet clumps of flying slush! Do you like frozen cement ?)

Snow postponed the annual Octoberfest in Deadwood, S.D., including Friday night's dancing-and-singing pub crawl and Saturday's Wiener Dog Races
and Beer Barrel Games.

Officials were warning drivers to stay off the roads in the Black Hills and in eastern Wyoming, where reports of 5 to 10 inches of snow were common.
Forecasters urged travelers to carry survival kits and to stay in their vehicles if stranded. The storm system also blanketed Colorado's northern
mountains with snow.

http://www.newstimes.com/news/us/article/Great-Plains-storm-brings-both-snow-tornadoes-4871193.php

Witnesses reporting tornadoes in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota

Wayne, Neb., saw some of the greatest damage from tornadoes where at least four homes were destroyed in the town of 9,600.

 

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October 8, 2013
NY Times
National Briefing section

New York Times confirms the storm that dumped four feet of snow, in western South Dakota.
The powerful weather system also hit Wyoming and Colorado. Destructive tornadoes in Iowa,
and Nebraska.

Loss of human lives, and loss non-human life. Some cattle ranchers lost 50 per cent of their herd.
{gsgs comment- If it was that rough, I am sure that the wildlife took some damage, too.)

 

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St. Jude Day storm 2013 UK

Floods

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/31618.aspx?type=Warnings&term=All

Strong winds

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_wind.html

TRAINS

First Capital Connect: Not expecting to run a service until 9am
Southeastern: Services possibly not starting until 10am
Greater Anglia and Stansted Express: No trains until after 9am
East Coast: Extreme weather contingency timetable
c2c (Essex): Services suspended until at least 9am
First Great Western: Amended service until 10am
Southern and Gatwick Express: No services until at least 9am
South West Trains: No trains expected until at least 8am
London Overground: No service until 9am
Eurostar: No cross-Channel rail services until 7am
Chiltern: Severe delays expected

ROADS

M25: Queen Elizabeth II bridge (Dartford Crossing from Essex to Kent) closed early morning, and flooding at junction 11 (Surrey)
M48 suspension bridge (Severn crossing) closed
M4: Second Severn crossing closed from 3am
Cornwall: Heavy flooding on A388 at Hatt and trees fallen on A374 at Sheviock and on A390 near Lostwithiel
Kent: Sheppey crossing which carries A249 closed
Sussex: Flooding and a broken down car on the A267 in Hand

AIRPORTS

London Heathrow Airport: 60 flights cancelled from 6am to 10.30pm
Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and Bristol airports: No cancellations yet
Trains: None to Gatwick, Southend, Stansted or Luton before 9am

FERRIES

Hovertravel between Ryde and Southsea: All cancelled
My Ferry Link, P&O Ferries and DFDS Seaways between Dover and Calais: Disruption
DFDS Seaways between Dover and Dunkerque: Disruption
Condor Ferries between Poole/Weymouth and Guernsey/Jersey: All cancelled

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...90mph-storm-brings-travel-chaos-millions.html

 

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Typhoon Haiyan hits the Philippines with near-200 mph winds

November 7, 2013

Typhoon Haiyan made landfall with the Philippines early Friday local time.

The AP reports it is poised to be the "strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded at landfall,"
with wind damage expected to be the most extreme in the history of the country.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown...tens-philippines-with-near-200-mph-winds.html

 

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"The world's deadliest natural disaster"

"Deadliest in recorded history"

Sumatra 2004 - 184,167 dead

Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011

12 September 2012, a Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 15,883 deaths

11 November 2013

"The storm hits with explosive force"

Haiyan - named "Yolanda" by Filipino authorities - struck the coastal provinces of Leyte and Samar on Friday.
It then headed west, sweeping through six central Philippine islands.

Haiyan brought sustained winds of 235km/h (147mph), with gusts of 275 km/h (170 mph) and waves as high as 15m (45ft).
In some places, as much as 400mm (15.75 inches) of rain fell.

10,000 people are feared to have been killed.

 

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Massive storm spawns tornadoes, storm damage in 10 states

"It looks like this will go down as one of the worst we have seen in November in recorded history."
- Senior Meteorologist Frank Strait
AccuWeather.com

November 17, 2013

Washington, IL Smashdown destruction

The storm, unusual for November, was spawned by a cold front from the west that collided with warmer, meteorologists said. The weather service's
Storm Prediction Center had placed Chicago, along with a large swath of the Midwest, in an area with high potential for severe weather.

"We're very concerned," weather service meteorologist Gino Izzi said early Sunday. "We're definitely stressing that this is not your run-of-the-mill
tornado watch."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...y-and-stormy-weekend-20131116,0,3131638.story

A string of tornadoes and severe storms left a trail of damage and flooding through the Midwest Sunday, leveling parts of a town near Peoria,
knocking down buildings in Grundy County and prompting Bears fans to scatter for cover as the game at Soldier Field was postponed.

In Washington, in Tazewell County, one person was reported killed, two were killed in Massac County and in Nashville east of St. Louis,
two elderly siblings were reported killed . Dozens of others were reported injured including at least six who were seriously injured as the
tornado spawned warnings through much of Illinois and northern Indiana.

In the Chicago area, there were confirmed touchdowns in southwest suburban Will County near Frankfort and in Grundy County near Coal City.

Kathy Hoffmeyer, a spokeswoman for the Will County Sheriff's office, said at about 12:15 p.m., two sheriff's deputies observed a funnel cloud
touch down in the Diamond-Coal City area in unincorporated Will County and neighboring Grundy County."That area was significantly damaged,"
she said.

A tornado reportedly made a touchdown in Diamond, near the Interstate-55, causing “significant property damage” to a local bar, called The
Chrome Rack Bar and Grill, and the nearby Christian Life Assembly of God Church, said Charles Pelkie, information officer for Will County
Emergency Management Agency. Other towns in Will County also saw effects of the storm. Seven houses in Manhattan in the 13000 block
of Bruns Road were damaged by the storm, Pelkie said. Several homes were deemed uninhabitable, he said. Sliding doors at one house were
found a quarter of a mile away, he said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...0,3131638.story?page=2&sc=3781033257483842769

Kristen Johnson, a spokeswoman for OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, said that the hospital treated 37 patients and that 24 of them
are still there. There were originally 8 in the trauma unit, though two have since been moved out and their status is unknown. She said the victims
had head injuries, broken bones, cuts and bruises.

A tornado touched down about 11 a.m. in the town of Dana, with a population of about 200 people, said Connie Brooks, director of the LaSalle County
Office of Emergency Management.

A tornado was also confirmed in the Chicago's suburb of Frankfort.

The winds were so strong in Chicago that a metal beam was blown from a construction site near State and Polk streets shortly before 1 p.m., police said


Arkansas

warnings

Indiana

A state of emergency was declared by Mayor Greg Goodnight in Kokomo, Ind., where significant storm damage was reported.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/...s/3620845/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

Ohio

Heavy winds from storms rolling through Ohio caused damage to buildings and have left thousands without power.

Wood County Director of Emergency Management Brad Gilbert says that two people went to the hospital to be evaluated for minor injuries when their house suffered substantial damage in Jerry City, about 10 miles southeast of Bowling Green.

More than 38,000 customers are without power across northwest Ohio due to the storm.

WISCONSIN

Strong winds knocked out power to thousands in the Milwaukee area, damaged buildings and downed trees in Dodge County and sent Sunday churchgoers scrambling into church basements for safety.

In the town of Hustisford, cattle sheds, garages and storage sheds were damaged, said Dodge County Emergency Management Director Joseph Meagher said. No injuries were immediately reported, he said.

MICHIGAN

tornado formation Hope, MI

High winds and rain slammed into the western part of the state. There are no immediate reports of injuries, but Consumers Energy reported thousands of power outages, especially east of U.S. 131 between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo.

Churches in western Michigan canceled evening worship services.

KENTUCKY

Tornadoes were spotted in at least eight Kentucky counties and at least one home had its roof blown off, a spokesman for the Kentucky Emergency Management said.

The town of Paducah, Ky., reported major tornado damage.

The Union County, Ky., emergency management office said a tornado caused widespread damage countywide with homes, a garage and outbuildings destroyed.

Buddy Rogers said it was unclear how many of those tornadoes actually touched down. He said a home in Rochester in Butler County
had its roof blown off and there were reports of damages to homes and other structures in the various counties, but no reports of injuries.

MISSOURI

Severe storms slammed the eastern part of Missouri, leaving tens of thousands without power and destroying a mobile home.

The National Weather Service said the storm tore shingles off of roofs and uprooted trees across parts of St. Louis and St. Louis County. Ameren Missouri reported more than 37,000 outages Sunday afternoon, mostly in the St. Louis area.

 

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Mega Storms arrive on the scene, and visit more frequently

Weather that spawned a 100 tornadoes, moves to the East

Severe weather and floods (Did this start being truly horrible, in 2000 ? Started picking up speed in 1995.)

April showers ? A river in the sky, making a town into a lake, is not a shower.

How do you escape a storm that covers several states ?

This storm peels engine covers from jets- not good if you are trying to fly to new location.

Tornado Outbreak Kills at Least 28 as Threat Continues For South on Tuesday
April 29, 2014

A multi-day severe weather event was expected to continue Tuesday across parts of the South, bringing a threat of damaging winds, hail and devastating tornadoes to the region for a third consecutive day.

The quiet 2014 severe weather season turned grimly violent over the weekend, as multiple deadly tornadoes ended our record-long start to a year without a tornado fatality. Media reports put Sunday's death toll at 16, with 164of deaths in Arkansas, one in Iowa, and one in Oklahoma. Hardest-hit were Mayflower and Vilonia, Arkansas, located about fifteen miles north of Little Rock. A large and powerful tornado that had been on the ground nearly an hour carved through the region near sunset, killing at least ten people. Damage photos appeared to show at least EF-3 type damage, and there was a report from relayed from amateur radio to the NWS that two homes in Vilonia had been “wiped clean to the foundation”, which would imply higher than EF-3 damage. There has been only one known F5 tornado in Arkansas history, on April 10, 1929. Vilonia was hit just three years ago, on April 25, 2011, by an EF-2 tornado that killed four people.

http://www.wunderground.com/news/severe-weather-tornado-outbreak-late-april-impacts-20140427

In other news, ice, snow, and cold weather is on the menu, even though April is almost over.

http://www.wunderground.com/news/winter-storm-live-updates-snow-ice-latest-20131106

 

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It's june here in S. Florida even though it's April. Bright Sun, hot dry wind with temps in mid to upper 80's. The feel like temp is in the 90's. So I wonder what it will be like when June actually arrives?

 

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14 inches of rain, in an hour-

Across Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, officials urged caution. Stay off the roads. Stay off the bridges. Stay out of the water. Stay home, unless home is gone.

For many, that turned out to be the case.

Dozens of residents were displaced in the Englewood neighborhood in Escambia County after a wall of water flooded homes and apartments in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

Daniel Cole stood outside his North M Street home Wednesday afternoon, sipping a beer and leaning against his truck. He said about 3 feet of water had inundated his home the night before, stranding his 88-year-old mother in a bedroom.

"All we could do was keep her on top of the bed until it was at least light out," he said. First responders brought boats and evacuated his mother. She now is staying with relatives.

Winslow and Bianca Riley, who live just down the block from the Coles, had to flee their house around midnight Wednesday with their 4-year-old son. Winslow Riley said the family had been forced to crawl through a window because the water was so high. They spent the night at Baptist Hospital.

"We grabbed what we could," he said. But it wasn't much.

"We lost everything," his wife said, "everything."

Rescue crews and two strangers from Mobile used boats to help the Rileys salvage some of their belongings Wednesday morning. That afternoon, friends and family helped ferry a TV and a few tables into the backs of pickup trucks.

Bianca Riley said she had called 911 before leaving, but was told her family would have to wait for help to arrive, because of the volume of calls coming into the county dispatch center.

The Rileys' neighbor, Cynthia Emanuel, received the same answer when she called 911. But she couldn't wait, she said.

"We had to get up there because the water was rising fast," she said. Emanuel, her two children and three grandchildren walked more than a mile through the storm to her daughter's house. They left behind two of her dogs, who were later rescued.

Wednesday morning, three Emerald Coast Utilities Authority maintenance workers saved a woman trapped in her car as floodwaters raged over it. They went under the water and pulled her from the car while another employee used a backhoe to pull them out.

"We lost a service truck saving her life," Stephen E. Sorrell, ECUA executive director, said in a news release. In all, three trucks were lost because of flooding.

The water system generally is stable, except in heavily damaged areas on Scenic Highway, Piedmont and Johnson where the roads washed away and broke water mains. Sorrell said they hoped to have repair work done last night.

"We cannot make complete repairs until the roads and surrounding soil are stabilized," he said. "Boil water notices will be necessary because of the negative pressure and potential for bacteriological contamination."

http://www.pnj.com/story/weather/20...y/8549109/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

is a lovely thursday here in Connecticut

 

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What's abnormal about it?




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March, for Boston, has always been a mixed bag. There might be a small stray snowstorm,
left over from Winter. But, mostly, the rains stay, and the days get warmer.

It is abnormal in late April, for my lawn to be covered in so much hail, it looks like it has snowed a few inches.

Boston delighted in the April 1st Blizzard of 1997, because it was abnormal.

Now, Winter is all off kilter. This year, Cape Cod got the April Fools snow- March 27, 2014

Abnormal weather events are piling up at an alarming rate. But, just because I stop gasping in surprise, it does not mean that I have not accepted it, as the new normal. Each time, it is still an abnormal weather event.

Two years ago, I was standing in my backyard, and my ears popped because the air pressure had dropped so low. Trees that have been growing for 300- 200 years, are suddenly are mutilated by strange winds that were more at home at Logan airport.

It might be normal, for some other part of the country, but many of the weather events that I have seen are not normal for Boston.

I was born in 1954. I have heard tales of the olden days from my elders.

 

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6:32 PM - 5 Jul 2014

Valley News Live ‏@ValleyNewsLive Jul 5

Storm dropped 4.25" hail on people at Heart Butte Dam, ND causing 3 head injuries. Seek sturdy shelter during storms!

https://twitter.com/ValleyNewsLive/status/485597207567933441

Three people sustained head injuries on Saturday afternoon near a lake west of Bismarck, North Dakota

http://thevane.gawker.com/surprisin...njures-three-in-nort-1600721762/+kellyconaboy