February 2006 National Storm Summary
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- Date: 9 Mar 2006 10:19:31 -0800
NATIONAL STORM SUMMARY
FEBRUARY 2006
1st-4th...Rain drenched much of the Northwest and upper Midwest
Wednesday. A strong storm brought rain to southern Oregon and northern
California. Rain and high-elevation snow showers persisted in western
Washington. Parts of Texas also saw heavy rain, and light rain and snow
moved through the Great Lakes region.
Tornadoes tore through New Orleans neighborhoods Thursday that had been
hit hard by Hurricane Katrina just five months earlier, collapsing at
least one previously damaged house and battering the airport,
authorities said. Roofs were ripped off, utility poles came down and a
radio tower fell near a major thoroughfare, but no serious injuries
were reported. "Don't ever ask the question, `What else could happen?'"
said Marcia Paul Leone, a mortgage banker who was surveying the new
damage to her Katrina-flooded home. She would go no farther than the
front porch of her house Thursday morning. Windows were blown out, and
the building appeared to be leaning. "I've been in the mortgage
business for 20 years. I know when something's unsafe," she said.
Electricity was knocked out for most of the morning at Louis Armstrong
International Airport, grounding passenger flights and leaving
travelers to wait in a dimly lit terminal powered by generators. The
storm also ripped off part of a concourse roof, slammed one jetway into
another, and flipped motorized runway luggage carts. Wind tore an
exhaust vent off another roof and blew it through a concourse window. A
metal ladder was wrapped around a light pole, and part of a glass wall
fell and crashed onto the tarmac. Airlines using the damaged concourse
were moved temporarily to other gates. The line of severe thunderstorms
moved across the area several hours before dawn. Tim Destri, of the
National Weather Service, said it appeared the damage was caused by two
tornadoes, one that hit the airport and another that moved into New
Orleans.
The storm collapsed at least one house in New Orleans'
hurricane-ravaged lakefront, police said. "I cannot believe this. We
were hit twice. It's not bad enough we got 11 feet of water," said
Maria Kay Chetta, a city grants manager. While her own home was not
badly damaged, one across the street lost its roof and another had
heavy damage to its front.
Heavy rain fell across the Ohio Valley and the Northeast on Friday. A
very strong storm will slam into the Northwest coast Saturday Feb. 4,
2006, ushering in significant rain and high elevation snow down to
Central California. Strong winds will accompany this storm. In the
East, another storm will bring significant rain to the East Coast.
Elsewhere, a low began to develop along the Gulf Coast and produced
heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and reports of damaging hail in northwest
Louisiana, eastern Mississippi, and southern Arkansas. Extremely moist
flow over central Florida fired up severe thunderstorms
and triggered tornado warnings for a couple counties along the
southwest
coast of the state.
12th-18th...A major winter storm socked the Northeast on Sunday. A
record of amount of snow fell in New York's Central Park, with 26.9
inches _ the most since record-keeping started in 1869. The old record
was 26.4 inches in December 1947. Some nearby areas reported more than
16 inches. A more manageable 6 or 7 inches fell from New Hampshire to
Virginia.
Snow and strong winds blew into the Northeast and heavy rain fell on
the Southeast on Friday, while behind the system numbing-cold air
settled over parts of the Plains and the West.
19th-25th...Heavy snow fell across the eastern shores of Lakes Erie and
Ontario on Monday as cold air continued to blow across the Great Lakes
region. The South experienced dense cloud cover with scattered
showers. South Carolina had some of the heaviest rainfall.
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