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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 (1600 km) swath through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan.
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.
A common track of a Panhandle Hook winter storm as it curves from Texas, northeastward towards the Great Lakes region. A panhandle hook (also called a pan handle hook [1] or Texas hooker [2]) is a relatively infrequent winter storm system whose cyclogenesis occurs in the South to southwestern United States from the late fall through winter and into the early spring months.
The Great Snow of 1717; January 1886 blizzard; Schoolhouse Blizzard; Great Blizzard of 1888; Great Blizzard of 1899; Great Lakes Storm of 1913; 1920 North Dakota blizzard; Knickerbocker storm; 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard; Great Snowstorm of 1944; North American blizzard of 1947; Great Appalachian Storm of 1950; December 1960 nor'easter; North ...
Lost on Lake Huron during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. Its wreck was discovered in July 2015. [13] Ironton: 26 September 1894 A schooner that sank in a collision with the wooden freighter Ohio. Isaac M. Scott United States: 9 November 1913 A lake freighter that sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
The storm was most powerful on November 9, battering and overturning ships on four of the five Great Lakes, particularly Lake Huron. The Mataafa Storm of 1905, was a storm that occurred on the Great Lakes on November 27–28, 1905. The system moved across the Great Basin with moderate depth on November 26 and November 27, then east ...
Numerous other violent, killer, long-tracked tornadoes occurred from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, including an extremely long-tracked F4 tornado that traveled almost 110 mi (180 km) and killed 18 people in northern Indiana. Strong, deadly tornadoes occurred as far north as Ontario (where an F3 tornado touched down) as well. The outbreak ...