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The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on November 11 (Armistice Day) and November 12, 1940. The intense early-season "panhandle hook" winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1,600-kilometer) swath through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan. [4] [5]
Great Lakes storms: 1860 Lady Elgin: over 400 dead 1835 "Cyclone": 254 dead 1913 Great Storm: 244 dead 1880 Alpena Storm: about 100 dead 1940 Armistice Day: 66 dead 1916 Black Friday: 49 dead 1958 Bradley: 33 dead 1905 Blow: 32 dead 1975 Fitzgerald: 29 dead 1966 Morrell: 28 dead 1894 May Gale: 27 dead
SS Novadoc was one of three Great Lakes freighters lost in the Armistice Day Storm of 11 November 1940. [1] SS William B. Davock and Anna C. Minch both foundered that same night with complete loss of their crews. All three ships went down between Little Point Sable and Pentwater, Michigan.
Great Lakes Storm of 1913 November 7–10, 1913. "The White Hurricane" of 1913 was the deadliest and most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and the Canadian province of Ontario. It produced 90 mph (140 km/h) wind gusts, waves over 35 ft (11 m) high, and whiteout snowsqualls. It killed ...
The storm comes up fast. Sunny is cooking on the Titus Brown when she feels a lurch. The lake is still calm and the sky clear, so she believes they’ve hit a sand bar; a porter identifies it as a ...
Great Blizzard of 1978: Winter storm Great Lakes region: 70+ 1883 Newhall House Hotel Fire: Fire (building) Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 70 1967 TWA Flight 128: Accident – aircraft Constance, Kentucky: 70 1954 Hurricane Carol: Tropical cyclone Mid-Atlantic United States, New England: 70 1975 Great Storm of 1975: Blizzard, tornado outbreak
Severe storms that appear to have spawned a rare February tornado outbreak sent sleeping Midwesterners scrambling for safety and left a trail of damage and power outages across four Great Lakes ...
Severe thunderstorms ransacked the Great Lakes states Tuesday evening, knocking out power for 340,000 customers in Michigan. Outages peaked Tuesday night but had dropped to 224,000 by Wednesday ...