Strong winds were howling through eastern Tennessee in the hours before the rain arrived, leading to the explosive and uncontrollable wildfire across the parched Gatlinburg landscape. The fire engulfed homes, businesses and resulted in the deaths of 14 people in a matter of hours.Ī much-needed soaking was closing in on the region that day as a cold front sliced its way into the South, but unfortunately, that front also had a negative consequence. 28 just as drought relief was finally arriving. No wildfire was more destructive than one that grew quickly out of control in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, on Nov. The Southeast went weeks without rain during late fall, turning the landscape into a tinderbox with many large wildfires igniting in the region.
(Paul Efird/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP) This aerial photo shows destroyed homes, many burned down to the foundation, the day after a wildfire that hit Gatlinburg, Tenn., Tuesday, Nov. Southeast Drought Fuels Gatlinburg Wildfire Disaster The combined insured losses from the hailstorms April 10-15 in Texas was $2.5 billion, according to meteorologist Steve Bowen of Aon Benfield. Tennis ball and baseball-sized hail April 25 pounded western parts of San Antonio and impacted some of the same locations hit on April 12. Homes and vehicles suffered extensive damage after being pelted hailstones as large as grapefruits.
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Of all the photos from that event, the one above from Wylie, Texas, stands out due to the incredible damage to the home's windows from a combination of strong winds and hailstones the size of softballs.Ī day later on April 12, the first of two damaging hail events that month in the San Antonio metro unfolded. The calendar then flipped to April, and the Lone Star state endured several more rounds of large hail in major population centers.Ī lone supercell thunderstorm April 11caused damage in a swath north of Dallas-Fort Worth. A few days later on March 23, damaging hailstones the size of golf balls once again struck the Metroplex. Patrick’s Day, when early morning thunderstorms in the Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex produced hail the size of golf balls and tennis balls. was the epicenter for several destructive hailstorms during the spring, amounting to billions of dollars in damage. Nearly all of the windows in this Wylie, Texas, home were knocked out by the Aphailstorm. That tropical wave battled wind shear and dry air for much of its lifespan, before finally forming into Tropical Depression Nine on Aug. The tropical wave that formed into Hermine was known as Invest 99-L. The hurricane formed from a disturbance that tracked across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean Islands, and eventually into the Gulf of Mexico – a distance of over 4,000 miles. Hermine’s history was quite lengthy before that record was snapped. Strong winds toppled trees in the Tallahassee area, causing lengthy power outages in some cases. Hermine produced significant storm surge damage along Florida's Big Bend, including major damage to a road along the immediate coast at Alligator Point. Wilma in October 2005 was the last hurricane to make landfall in the state prior to Hermine. Hurricane Hermine Ends Florida's Streakįlorida’s record-breaking streak with no hurricane landfalls that lasted more than a decade came to an end when Hermine pushed inland near St. The last time such a watch had been issued in February in the area was back in 1997.Įven more uncommon were the severe thunderstorm warnings issued by the National Weather Service in Maine early Feb. A severe thunderstorm watch was issued by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center as far north as Massachusetts and southern Vermont late Feb. The outbreak spawned the first deadly February tornadoes of record in Virginia, and the first F/EF2 or stronger February tornado on record in Pennsylvania. A total of 61 tornadoes touched down over those two days, including an EF3 tornadoes in Convent, Louisiana, near Pensacola, Florida, and Evergreen, Virginia. More than half of those 102 tornadoes were spawned in an outbreak that struck the South and some mid-Atlantic states Feb. Only 2008, with the record February "Super Tuesday" outbreak, was more tornadic during that winter month in the U.S. There were 102 confirmed tornadoes in February, making it the second most tornadic February since 1950. Laundromat manager Brad Poindexter, of Danville, Va., walks over bricks at his damaged business after a deadly tornado swept through Waverly, Va., Wednesday, Feb.
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