![]() We use ISD data to complement and backfill for our METAR archive. The Integrated Surface Database (ISD), maintained and published by NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information, consists of hourly and synoptic weather reports from a variety of sources. We have been collecting and archiving published METAR reports since 2011, and have found third-party sources for archived reports from years prior to that. They are published via radio transmission and on the internet. Such reports are used by pilots, air traffic controllers, meteorologists, climatologists, and other researchers. Click HERE for more information from the NWS Office in Omaha, Nebraska.Ĭlick HERE for more This Day in Weather History from the Southeast Regional Climate Center.This report graphically illustrates the historical weather reports recorded by the weather station at Aktau Airport in May 1988.Īirport weather stations throughout the world routinely issue METAR weather reports. The twister, which cut a swath ten miles long and as much as a quarter of a mile wide. The tornado struck during the late afternoon moving northeastward through the industrial and residential areas of west-central Omaha and lifting over the northern section of the city. Click HERE for more information from the .ġ975: A massive tornado hit Omaha, Nebraska killing three persons, injuring 133 others, and causing over 250 million dollars damage. The Hindenburg was delayed two hours from docking due to thunderstorms in the area. One worker on the ground was also killed, making a total of 36 deaths. ![]() ![]() Of the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), there were 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen). Further south in Illinois, a tornado blew a moving passenger train off the tracks near Neoga, injuring all 19 people aboard.ġ937: The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The tornado moved out over Lake Michigan and was observed to have multiple vortices by a reporter. The damaged buildings included a candy factory, a hospital, a freight depot, and a church. A fishing tournament at Lake Oahe had to be postponed as a result of the high winds.ġ876: A tornado, estimated at F3 intensity, tracked four miles across Chicago, Illinois. In Jones County, a semi-tractor trailer was blown over and damaged. At the Legion Memorial Park in Mobridge, the high winds knocked the centerfield lights to the ground. In Pierre, the high winds blew a large tree down and tore loose a piece of the sheet metal cornice atop a downtown building. High winds of 35 to 50 mph, gusting to over 60 mph blew across central and north central South Dakota from the early morning to the late evening hours causing some damage. Winds also blew over a tractor-trailer injuring a man in Okaton. A small building was destroyed in Gettysburg, and a building was damaged near Timber Lake. Wind gusts of 62 mph were reported at Aberdeen. High winds produced blowing dust which reduced visibilities to less than one-half mile in northeastern South Dakota.
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