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SEVERE LOCAL STORMS, JULY 1933
[Compiled by Mary 0. Souder]
Report of the Chief of Bureau] [The table herewith contains such data as have been received copcerning severe local storms that occurred during the month. A revised list of tornadoas will appear in the .\nnual
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P.m ....... I l;?+
5p.m ___._ 1 ,3 3
P.m .......................
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Tipton, Iowa _____ ______.
2
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Providence and Pam tucket, R.I.
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3:45p.l n... 1 3
P.m .......................
La Crosse, Wis., 5 miles
rn!dwater. Iowa.. ..... Ikedsburg. near, Vis ....
south.
1
Cramford Richland. anc ~m l i CAunties Wri~ht. Frankli;, FIwd .ind Dubuque Coun ties. Iowa. lloc.ilem, Iowa- ........
p.m. 7p.m .....
New York City and vi. cinity.
11 ____..
\Villiamspurt and Ly-
Purkerstmy. \\-.Va..
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coming Valley. Pa.
'5
P.m
t$rotlliead. near. IVis. ,.
c~irwn L:ike, Cuiunlbis. Pov~d du Lac. Dorlpe. :mi Sheboygm Couu- tics. Wis. 1~ Crosqe-Prairia du Chien. \Vis. Cheraw, near, S.C.. ....
Duhi!que, Iow:~, :lull
vicimty.
Chicago, Ill., and vicinit.?
___--.
1
Chanut.e. Pans.. ...... Gettysbur:. l'n.. :in4
Page Coiint.y, Va. ...... virinity.
Norfolk, P:i .............
Pondera and Toole Cnun
Fate. 'rex ...............
Florence. Colo.. ......
Natchitoches, la^ .......
tirs. Mont.
Millett, Tex .............
Cavour. S.Dsk .......... Platte. S.D3k ...........
Scohey, IvIont..-.. ....... Ekalaka, h h n t , ne:u ..~
Missoula, Mont .........
Helena, Rfont ...........
Harvey County, Kacs..
Franklin Count.y, Kans.
Springfield, hlo., an8.l
Franklin and Floyd
Bluff Pity. Kans., aud
Lewis County. Idaho.. .
Newton, Ems., ana.1
ricini ty.
Counties. Iowa.
vicinity.
vicinity.
Date
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1
1
1
1 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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1-2
2
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2-3
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4
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4-5
5
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6
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8
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S
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9
9 9
s::js4:20 1 ..........I..... p.m.
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5p.m ..... I &SO ......
5:30 p.m ... 1 7 ...... 7 p.1u ..................... I /
Value of property destroyed
$6, OUC
50, OOC
R. 5w 5. ow
75, onc
30% OM.
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..- .
5u. 000
1. Ulhl
25.000
100, MK)
500
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1, ooo. OM)
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20, ooo
6. oon
9. no0
40.000
2s. 000
15,000
40, 000
5. N o
10,000
Chnracter of storn
Electrical.. ......
Thunderstorm.. -
Hail ..............
Tornado. ........
Tornado srld rain
Hail.. ............
Toriindo. .......
H:iil ..............
Tliun~lersqii:ill . .
b l e l ,t r i c a l n i i d 1ie.iry hail. Severe tliun~lrr. stnrm nn*l wind Hsii ..............
\Vim. ..........
Tornadic winds. electrical and rain.
Electrical. heavy rain. and hail.
Tornado and rain Tornadic winds..
Hail and wlnil.-
Wind and win^ ..
Hliil, electricsl. ...
Tornado.. ....... ElQCtrical and
Wind ........... heavy min.
Tornado .........
Thunder squall. Tornado. ........
Henvy hail ....... \\-iud-- _____ ._.._
Wind. min. and
T ti nn der s ri u a 11
Tornado. ........
hnil.
and hail.
EIeoyy hail and
Thiindrrstnrm an(
Wind and bail ...
wind.
heavy hail.
Tornsdic winds..
Uail ..............
I tornndoQs 3ud lieavy rain.
Remarks
Telephone exchange destroyed by flre after being struck by lightmug; man and cow killed by I i i l i t nino ..-- -.-~. Li:htning struck a house in Pawtucket and trees at the Motacomet QolI Course in East Provi- dence. 2prrsons injured hy hailstones the size of walnuts; crops damaged.
No details ..................................... House, severs1 hams and smaller buildings
Serious darnwe to growing crops. -.- __. _______.
Telrghone and power lines disabled; damage to buildings; several persons injured; loss to live-
damaged: inany trees uprooted.
stock. Telephone poles and trees blown down: gardens badly he:iten. Portion of Riverside Pnrk and depressions and underpnsqes in Central Park flooded; police hunch rescued 6 from rough wat.ers of the Bronx; fishing boRt Kith party of 50 disabled 13 miles from Ambrose Lightship: 2 homes In Garden Clty. Long Island, struck by Liqht- uing; lightning set ilre t o 3 oil tank3 in Eliza- beth city. N.J.; in Astoria, Long Island. a circus tent with 400 spectators, mostly chil- dren, blew down. injuring 12 person?. 2 seri- ously: hundreds of trees blown down and
Farm buildings destroyed and trees struck by
ieversl dwellinea struck hy lightning; much
Property damnged. ............................. Trees uprooted; orchards ruined; buildings
CQll!lrS flooded.
lightning; several persons Injured.
damage to trees.
wrecked.
Jluriy buildings damaged or demollshed by wind: loss to crops: highways washed. One man killed, another Injured by lightning; ham burned. Electric 1it:ht. service cut OR and telephones out of commission: considerable damage t o farm
buildings. windmills and growing crops; hriflres and ciilverts washed out: $5,000 dam-
m e to st.reets anrl sewers. Power lineit(in~down. 4 persons inlured; many Ircps uprooted; h3SQmciits and suhways flood- ed; ?& hourcs 1inrOofQd nnd 3fi flras broke nut duo to damagQd wires: mandwandand 2 pylons domollshed at. Chicago Airport; hangar a t Elein -4irport lift.ed hy wind. Farm buildings damaged ........................
3 rot.tages demolished. more than 200 trees up- rooted; house unroofed. Damsge to crops and buildings; 2 children killed hy lightning. Part of downtown husiness sect.ion flooded; high tides and huge waves damaged jetties. hridges and resort property at nearby heaches; numer- ous small ho;lts odeatroyed. Property damaged; few cattle killed by lightning.
5 persons injured; small loss of crops ............. DainRge to roads and property; 1 person killed by lightning. Buildings unroofed and tenant houses blown down causing damage of several thousand dollars. Report incomplete; damage estimated to be sinall. Damace to buildings and crops .................. Telemaph and telephone wires torn down; roof of Milwaukee railroad depot torn o f f : windows in roundhouse blown in, 2 persons injured. Damage mostly to grain crops and gardens ...... Girl crushed beneat.h wreckage of a small farm outbuildin:: no other damage reported. Telephone and powrr serrice crippled: windows shattered and many roofs damaged. Sewers plugged; dirt roads washed out in places..
Chief damage to farm buildings and implements;
Property damaged; some loss of crops; path 15
Traffic tied up due to flooded streets; house
Details ofdamngenot reported ...................
path 3% miles long.
miles Inng.
struck hylightning.
Storm had tornadic charncteristics: several large barns hlon-n down; path I O miles long. Considersbk damage t o grain: path 7 miles long. Barns, windmills and outbuildings blown down. trees uprooted: '2 boys KhirlQd into the air and carried from t.he barn to the house sard by the second tornado; several thoiisand dollars' dam- age.
carried from the barn to the house sard by the second tornado; several thoiisand dollars' dam- age.
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Severe local storms, July 1933-Continued
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Place
Williamsburg, Kans.,
L a k e Ronkonkoma, and vicinlty.
Brookhaven, N.Y.
W e s t e r n W h i t m a n
Eastern Long Island,
Harpersfleld, N.Y ____--- Hartley. Iowa. and vicin-
Odebolt. Iowa, and
Yankton County, S.Dak
County, Wash.
N.Y.
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vicinity.
Cedar and eastern Knox
Prairie Home, Nebr.--.. Lincoln, Nebr _______----
Counties, Nebr.
Sioux City, Iowa __.-----
Eastern Stnnton and southern Wayne Coun- ties. Nebr. O'Brien, Buens Vista, Ida Sac CrawfoFd, and ShelLy Counties, Iowa. Etowah, Tenn.. ________
Black River Fnlls. Wis. Downsville, Wk., 2 mile:
Stevens County. kans-.
Texas and Beaver Coun,
northwest.
ties, Okla.
Paris, Tex
Perryton-Pampa, Tax--.
Quanah, Tex Morehouse, Mo
Johnson County, Iowa-. Quthrie, Mo _--._------
E erton and Black Rive1
Madison-hlcFarland an( Salk, \vis.
Hartford, Wis.
Milwaukee. Wis
Cloverdale, near, N.Mei Weld Adams Arapahoe Eldert. and EI pas( Counties, Colo.
Thomas and L o g a r Counties, Kans. Smith County, Kam..-.
hiorton, and Phillip! Counties, Earn.
Florence, Colo- __ - - - - - -.
Lexington, near, Soutt
Qrant County, ham.--. Carolina.
Redfleld, S.Dak., 15mile
southwest. Crandon. S.Dak. Tulm, S.D&
Hitchcock, S.Dak ______ Cavour, S.Dak. ________ C,layton, N.Y., nnd vi
Gettysburg, S.Dak _____
Casco and Kewaunee
cinity.
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(Yards)
3p.m.---. 1 4
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2p.m..-.- I i
2-6p.m--. 13-f
4p.m.-..- 1:
4-5p.m..- 1 4
4:30 p.m. - 1 4
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7:15 p.m.-- ________.
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Value of property lestroyed
5, CGfI
Xarncter of storm
Tornadic winds.-
Tornado and hail.
Hail, rain, nnd
Thunderstorm- __
Severe hailstorm. Wind. hail, and
Wind and bail.--
wind.
rain.
Thundersquall an1
Hail and wind..-.
___.do ..__.____.__
IVind. ___._.____.
Elcctricnl. - . .-. - -
hail.
Hail and wind.. .
Electrical, and
Lhil..___ __.______
-...do ___..--- - _--
heavy rain.
Hail and wind ...
Severe electrical..
Wind nnd hail ...
Wind -. . . . . . - -. -.
Thundersquall. -.
nail .__._ .- .___._.
Electrical andraii
Hail _____ ...___. -.
Rain and hail---.
Heavy hail and
Kind and hail--- wind.
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Electrical. - - -. . -. Thunderstorm. __
Tornado and t b u
Wind. __________. dersquall.
----do.-- - - _._ __ -. Tornadic winds..
Tornadic winds-. Wind.. _________. Tornadic winds-.
HaiI, exeessivc
Heavy hail ___.___
rainfall.
Remarks
Wire service interrupted; trees damaged ....-..-.
Telephone and elertric poles down; several pcr- sons injured: trcri uprooted. crops ruined; groupof bathersso b,cdlg bruised byilownlmur of hnilstones as large u marbles that a doctor had to be called. Qrnin tlatteued in fields; roads washed out: wat.cr carried away poultry: orchards dam- flged: severe loss in limited areas. Buildings unroofed; mnny trees and poles blown down; some damage to crops. Vegetstion severely damaged. _. - ._____________
Extensive damage to telephone wires; many large trees uprooted; small buildings demol- ished; loss to crops Electric nnd tele.plione poles broken off: many houses damaged by falling trees; loss to crops; cattlekilled: path 12miles long. Damage to property and some crop loss
50,ooO acres of crops destroyed; many farmers without stock feed; buildings wrecked. Property damaged. Light and telephone service rlisrupted; trees hlown down am1 windows hroken. Electric service dislibled: lightning struck the chimney of a srhool killing 1 child nnd injuring 3 wheu clump of bricks and mortar fell in their midst..
'2O.(JO(I acres of crops destroyed: mnny fnrlu huild- ings wrecked; much damaged by flooding.
Crops completely rlestmseil in some smnll areas.
Streets and a numlier or stores flooded .._..___..
Loss to crops ...................................
Damage to windows and roofs _______..________.
Damage to windmills and small buildings; path 12 miles long. Damaga to buildings and other property: smnll loss of crops bemuse of t,Iiis storm, the section having been previously visited by sandstorms and crops had suffered for want of rain; pnth 35 miles Ion:. Duildin;.s blown down and 2 airplanes damaged at airport. Small loss to crops, only $1,000 damage relmted nt Pampa. Smnll buildings blown down ______._..._____...
Plnnt of Huminelberger-Harrison Ahiiifactur- ing Co. st.ruck by lightning aud hrned. Crops dama?e~.l.. . . . ... . .. . . __ ~. ......-
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Trees and outbuilding blown down; nmount of dnmnge not estim:ited. Property damaged-. ____._._._._________.-----.
About SO automobile tops damaged; windows hrokeu: ~cousideral~le ioss Lo crops, especially corn and grain. Several houses, poles, and trees struck by light- ning: basements Uooded and sewers over- flowed. Dnrunge severe ..__.___._..._._____.....---. ~...
Streams overtlowed their banks; bridprs de- stroyed; crops washed out; stones as large as hen's eggs caused severe damage to roofs, win- dows, trees poultry, and livestock. Chicf damagi to corn crop; path 30 miles long..
Chief damage to corn crop; many smoll huildings demolished; large number of poultry killed; pstb 8 miles Ion:. Wind damaged telephone poles and small farm buildiugs; loss to corn crop from hail; path W miles long. 2 oil reflnery tanks destroyed by lightning.---.
4 members of 1 family injured by lightuing and their home damaged. Several small buildings blown down; pnth 10
miles long. Damage to buildinqs ___________________________
Property damaged __________..._____.__________
Several large barns. granaria, and small build-
Trees uprooted and buildines demolished. _____ Damage to buildings ____._________...___.------
Telephone. telesraph, and electric service crip- pled; poles and trees blown down; shrubbery uprooted. Small bridges washed away; poultry and small livestock drowned or killed. Considerable damage to crops; few windows broken.
ings wrecked.
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T h u n d e r s t o r m and hail.
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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. .________ __ __ __.... . -. __. .
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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.
-. . . .
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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Time 1 1 1 Property (yards) Of life destroyec
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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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