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Character of storm
T h u n d e r s t o r m and hail.
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Hail .___.___._____
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Thunderstorm. --.
MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW
Severe local atorma, July 1983-continued
Remarks
Telephone poles down. flood held up traffic 01
the Hudson electric division of the New Yorl Central between 6-7% pm.; thousands o dollars damage to streets, homes, schools, auto mobiles, and gardens. -Transmission line and two churches strurk b) Ilghtning; no fatalities.
Loss to crops; buildings damaged ______________
Roofs and crops damaged _________.....___ ____ Property destroyed ________________._..... __._
Property damaged. .________ __ __ __.... . -. __. .
JULY 1933
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Henvr damage reported .__..._ ________..____ __ Property damaged ____._...._.______..----...--
Large hailstones damaged buildings. killed poultry and small livestock; crops destroyed. Knickerbocker Building struck by lightning; streets flooded; small crop damage. Loss solely to crops; bail largest and heaviest ever observed in this section. Crops almost destroyed by hail; path 15 miles
New York City, Mounl St. Vincent and Yank ers, N.Y.
nina. Wind ........_____
Electriral . . . . . . . Thundersquall.-..
Electrical ...--.--.
Hail and wind----
Tornado. ____.___
Thundersr4uall.. Wind. ..____._____
___.do ____._.______
Westville. Mount- Car mel. Waterbury, and Colchester. Conn. Bloomer Chetek Almenr and Sind Creek, Wis. Datil N.Mex _.--------. N o r t h m t r a l Cheyennt County, Nebr. Rudolph and Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Hancock County, Iowa. Cheyenne County, Nebr Artesian, S.Dak ._____ __ -
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No details ..______.__._._._._________._._____.__
Much damage reported ... __. . - .___..__ -. -. -. Many places struck by lightning; wind in excess of 70 miles per hour recorded a t the airport. Large barn and contents struck by lightning and burned. Many shade trees uprooted; windows broken..
Property damaged; path 1 mile long _________.__
Trees and buildings damaged. -. . . . .
Several persous injured; roofs blown off and sign.
Damage mostly to utility poles and to shop win.
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boards demolished.. ,
dows.
Binghamton. N.Y
Lark Haven, Pa., and
Carthage, S.Dak _._____.
vicinity.
Hail _.______....._
Severe electrical wind, and rain.' Electricalandrain
Ball and wind ____
Lgon County, Iowa..-.- Lebanon County, Pa.--. Pittsburgh, Pa _.___ ___..
No details. ..______. __________.________________
Much damage to telephone poles; sewers over-
Lightning caused the death of 2 men: damace
Damage to flelds, gardens, and timber ____.____
flowed.
chiefly from tloodinc.
Blanchardville, Wis..
Grand Rapids, Mich.--- southwest of.
Thunderstorm- ___
Thundersquall--..
Prescott, Ark ________.--
East Lansing, Mi&.--- Miami. Ariz ____________
Tra5c delayed; sewers over0owed ______ __ __ - - -
Trees uprooted, roofs crushed. and street rar traffic blocked by falling trees; several plate
Nogalaq, driz - -. - - - - - - - -
Kauka Lake, N.Y - - -. - -
Shreveport, La __________
Windham, Ohio, vicini0
Fcranton, Pa ...._______-
Aleuandria, La _.__ - - - - - -
Elmira, N.Y. __ - - __ __ ___
Of.
Bail _________.____
Rain .____._.._.___
Ida County, Iowa .._____
Muskingum County,
Philadelphia, near, Pa.. Ohio.
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Severe damage to growing crops .____._____._.._
7-year-old girl swept into a storm sewer, while wading up to her waist in water in a low sec- tion of the pavement near her home, and was
Fluvanna and Nottoway
Norfolk. Va _____________
Counties, Va.
LViud. -. - - .- .____.
Wind, hail, and rain.
Wiud and rain.---
l'hundersquall..-.
Montgomery, Ala ______ -
Grandstand unroofed and many trees uprooted Wires and poles blown down; trees uprooted; a house in Sangerfleld carried, 1,OOO feet into a neighboring field; 250 hens kllled when a harn was blown on a chicken house. Overhead wires were reported blown down; basements flooded; sewers overflowed; pave- ments buckled and highways inundated. Trees, barns. and silos blown down; crops flat- tened; path 9 miles long.
Cloverdale, near, N.Mea Fort Worth, Tex _.._____
Oak Cliff, Dallas, Tex.*-
Miami-Titusrille, Fla---
Oswego N.Y ___.________
Kiowa County, Okla.--.. Canton, N.Y.. and vi- cinity Ludington. Mich.. - biarlette, Fabius. Cazen- ovia, Norrisville, San- gcrEeld, and Water- ville, N.T. Milwaukee, Wis-
Monroe, Wls., north- west of.
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T h u n d e rsyuall and hail. Heavy hail
Hail and ligbt-
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Severe thunder- I 14 sailboats sank or ran aground __________. storm. Rain _____.._______
Tornadic winds ...
Heavy rains .._____
Windandrain--..
Rain. hail, and wind.
drowned. 30 persous badly injured; 50 residences totally demolished; path 4 blocks long. Communications interrupted; shrubbery up- rooted; wind velocity W miles per hour recorded between Stuart and Fort Pierce. Damage to wires and trees; wind relocity of 41 miles au hour registered. Damage to crops: path 6 miles long ____________ Barn struck by lightning and burned ______.____
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For more detailed description of this storm see p. - MONTELY WEATEER REVIEW, July 1933.
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