Every tornado, hurricane, flood, blizzard, heat wave, record, earthquake, eruption, tsunami, wildfire and geomagnetic storm on record for December 5, in any year, each linked to its full record.
Every event with a place, colored by kind. Tap one to open its record.
By deaths, damage and strength together, across every archive.
Earthquakes
An earthquake struck Ramala, Gaza, Nablus, Egypt, Israel, Syria. It killed 70,000 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage. It caused a tsunami.
Tsunamis
A tsunami with a source recorded as earthquake struck Akko, Syria. It killed 70,000 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
Earthquakes
An earthquake struck Avellino,napoli,abruzzi, Brindisi,benevento, Italy. With the tsunami it caused, it killed 30,000 people and did extreme (about $25 million or more) damage.
Tornadoes
An F5 tornado touched down in Warren County, Mississippi and tracked 9 miles, 500 yards wide at its widest, killing 38 and injuring 270.
Earthquakes
An earthquake struck NE, Anatolia, Turkey. It killed 550 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
Tornadoes
Winter storms and snow
A winter storm affected much of North and Central Texas for an extended period from December 5th through the 10th. A combination of freezing rain, sleet, and a little snow began falling during the day on the 5th and continued through the morning hours of the 6th.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Khorasan Province, Iran. It killed 8 people and injured 12.
Tornadoes
An F3 tornado touched down in Tulsa County, Oklahoma and tracked 1.5 miles, 700 yards wide at its widest, injuring 38.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Costa Rica-Panama. It killed 6 people. It caused a tsunami.
Tsunamis
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Costa Rica-Panama, with a maximum water height of 0.21 meters. It killed 6 people.
Tornadoes
An F3 tornado touched down in Calhoun County, Alabama and tracked 24.7 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, injuring 26.
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An F2 tornado touched down in Sabine Parish, Louisiana and tracked 9.9 miles, killing 1 and injuring 7. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: SE Fort Jesup/W Robeline, LA.
An F5 tornado touched down in Warren County, Mississippi and tracked 9 miles, 500 yards wide at its widest, killing 38 and injuring 270.
An F3 tornado touched down in Calhoun County, Alabama and tracked 24.7 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, injuring 26.
An F3 tornado touched down in Lee, Harris, Meriwether counties, Alabama and tracked 51 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, injuring 7.
An F2 tornado touched down in Fulton County, Georgia and tracked 0.5 miles, 50 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 40.
An F2 tornado touched down in Barbour, Quitman, Stewart counties, Alabama and tracked 71.5 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 35.
An F3 tornado touched down in Tulsa County, Oklahoma and tracked 1.5 miles, 700 yards wide at its widest, injuring 38.
An F3 tornado touched down in Okmulgee, Wagoner, Muskogee counties, Oklahoma and tracked 27 miles, 50 yards wide at its widest.
On this date in the weather archives, an F3 tornado struck Tulsa during the late afternoon hours in 1975. This tornado injured 38 people and destroyed numerous structures.
From the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.
An F2 tornado touched down in Putnam County, Florida and tracked 9.4 miles, 40 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 10.
A cool unstable airmass produced thunderstorms over Westrern Oregon. A small tornado touched down in North Eugene inflicting an estimated 50,000 dollars in damage to a residential neighborhood, mostly from downed trees falling on houses.
Tornado touched down near the mouth of the Noyo River damaging a mobile home and uprooting trees. The tornado crossed Highway 1 and damaged the roof of a motel and a courthouse. It uprooted additional trees at the end of its path across the street from a hospital emergency room.
A tornado touched down just southwest of downtown Sylvester, and moved east along Kelly Street where most of the damage occurred. Nineteen businesses, two houses, three county buildings, and two non-profit organizations were damaged.
A tornado touched down just northwest of Crawfordville in the Arran Road area, then traveled northeast across Wakulla Arran Road and the Fox Hollow subdivision, Ivan Church Road, Evergreen Acres, Emerald Acres, to Harry Morrison Road and Elizabeth Street before lifting.
A mini-supercell storm over western Clinch county tracked north-northeast roughly along Highway 84. At 310 pm tornado damage was reported near Du Pont. A home was damaged at 2371 Edward Lee Road, which is about 2 miles east of downtown Du Pont.
A bowing squall line intercepted a northeast moving cell east of the squall line. The merge increased surface inflow into the leading cell and produced a brief mini-supercell tornado near Hoboken.
A warm front moving northward through southeast Louisiana aided in the development of severe thunderstorms during the midday hours. One tornado was confirmed over Ascension Parish.
A strong cold front moved through the region, preceded by numerous thunderstorms during the evening hours on December 5th and into the early morning on the 6th. Large hail, a few tornadoes, and an isolated damaging wind event accompanied the strongest storms.
After some isolated thunderstorms moved across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon and evening hours on December 5, a line of severe thunderstorms moved across Middle Tennessee during the early morning hours on December.
Strong to severe storms formed along and south of Interstate 44 during the evening of the 5th, as a southeastward moving cold front interacted with an unusually unstable airmass over the region.
A strong cold front moved through the region, preceded by numerous thunderstorms during the evening hours on December 5th and into the early morning on the 6th. Pockets of damaging winds accompanied the strongest storms.
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Hurricane Olga reached its peak of 125 kt (145 mph) with a central pressure of 950 mb, a category 4 storm.
Hurricane Chantelle:daniella reached its peak of 120 kt (140 mph) with a central pressure of 915 mb, a category 4 storm.
Tropical Cyclone Pam was a tropical cyclone that threatened the southern Cook Islands in December 1997. A tropical depression developed December 6, which developed slowly while drifting to the south-southeast.
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A major winter storm brought heavy snow and strong winds to southern New England, dumping 1 to 3 feet of snow over a large area as it tracked slowly off the coast.
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The Great storm of 1703 was a destructive extratropical cyclone that struck south Wales and central and southern England on 26 November 1703. High winds caused 2,000 chimney stacks to collapse in London and damaged the New Forest, which lost 4,000 oaks.
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Wide spread heavy precipatation from Pacific storm. SFO 1.4" santa Cruz 2.0", Boulder Creek 2.3" Kentfield 2.0". Large pine tree fell through home in Oakland due to the wet soil and wind in the storm. power was out to as many as 3500 people in the area.
The Manatee River at Myakka Head along State Road 64 crested at 7.4 feet on the 5th, nearly a half foot above the flood stage of seven feet. Several tomato fields were flooded by crest.
Unusually high tides were experienced on Pohnpei. This caused flooding in some of the houses along the coastline. Some of the dwellings were reported to have water flood their low levels. Houses built on 10 foot high cement pilings were high enough to escape the flooding.
Repeated rounds of heavy rainfall led to flooding across eastern Kentucky on December 6th and 7th. In general, between two and half and three and a half inches of rain fell for the event and a number of roads around the area were underwater from time to time.
Mid to upper level trough combined with ample low level moisture and daytime heating to produced scattered to numerous showers with thunderstorms over the San Juan metro area.
A moisture plume with a weak atmospheric river arrived on December 5th and brought rain to the region.
A strong atmospheric river brought heavy rains on December 5th which pushed many streams and rivers to flood stage along the coast, with minor flooding on many smaller streams and creeks across northwest Oregon.
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An apparent downburst of wind caused minor damage to temporary roofing on the gym and auditorium of Niceville High School. The school had suffered damage from Hurricane Opal and had a temporary roof on it. The wind peeled away the temporary roof and rains damaged the auditorium.
Strong winds occurred from the Sangre de Cristo mountains and east from early morning of the 4th through most of the day, as a powerful jet stream moved across Colorado.
Strong downslope wind developed across the eastern slopes of the Sangre de Cristo mountains and also through the Estancia Valley of southern Santa Fe and western Torrance counties.
A shed roof was damaged, another shed was blown off its foundation about 100 yards, a pole barn collapsed, and several trees and power lines were blown down.
Strong, gradient, widespread winds from the south to southwest affected south-central and southeast Wisconsin during the afternoon and early evening hours of December 5, 2001.
A powerful cold front moved through central and eastern Wisconsin during the late afternoon and evening. Gusty winds accompanied showers and thunderstorms ahead of the front and continued as cold air moved into the region after the frontal passage.
Record high temperatures were brought into Iowa on strong southerly winds. Winds at the 850 mb level were in excess of 50 kts with dew point temperatures in the 10 to 12 degree C. range.
A compact upper level system crossed the region during the morning, bringing very strong winds to parts of western South Dakota. Wind gusts around 65 mph were measured from Butte County to southern Meade and eastern Pennington Counties.
Strong wind gusts, not associated with thunderstorm activity, downed a few trees across Caddo Parish during the early morning hours of December 5th. These winds were associated with a very strong pressure gradient that was prevalent near a stationary front.
December began with an upper-level ridge of high pressure over the central California interior. This ridge brought clear skies and above-normal temperatures to the region for the first two days of the month. .
A line of thunderstorms accompanying a cold front caused isolated severe weather on the evening of the 5th.
Storm Barra was a hurricane-force extratropical bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean that impacted Ireland and the United Kingdom with damaging gusts and heavy rainfall. Barra was also the reason for one of Navarre in Spain's worst floods in two decades.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Strong to severe thunderstorms developed across northeastern Oklahoma during the evening of the 5th, as a cold front moved into the area. The strongest thunderstorms produced hail up to golf ball size and damaging wind gusts.
Storm Darragh was an extratropical cyclone which severely impacted Ireland and the United Kingdom in December 2024. The fourth named storm of the 2024–25 European windstorm season, Darragh was named by the UK Met Office on 5 December 2024.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
During the late evening hours of December 4th, a cold front progressed through the Ohio Valley and promoted strong to gusty winds in its wake. The front arrived into southeast Ohio around midnight and swept through the area during the early morning on the 5th.
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A storm system combined with a moist westerly flow to spread heavy snow to much of the state. The valleys received from 6-11 inches while the mountains from 1-2 feet. The highest total for the mountains was at the Park City ski resort where 23 inches accumulated.
Heavy snowfall and strong winds in exposed areas resulted in difficult travel conditions and the closure of many mountain passes throughout western Colorado. Numerous vehicle accidents were reported along with a number of avalanches.
A vigorous upper-level disturbance combined with available moisture and marginally cold air to produce a swath of heavy, wet snow across much of western Virginia from the Blue Ridge through the highlands, including most of the Shenandoah Valley.
A powerful Pacific storm brought heavy rain, snow, and strong winds to Southern California. Rainfall totals ranged from 2 to 6 inches over the coast...up to 12 inches in the mountains. Mudslides closed parts of Highway 1, Highway 126, and Highway 150.
A prolonged period of lake effect snow began during the early morning hours on the 5th and continued through the early morning hours on the 7th. A predominantly west wind brought persistent squalls across northwest Pennsylvania.
Cold air crossing the warm waters of Lake Erie produced lake effect snow squalls southeast of the lake. Up to 14 inches of snow fell over parts of the western southern tier.
A storm system over the Canadian maritimes Saturday (12/6/97) resulted in considerable moisture rotating across Vermont. Generally between 2 and 5 inches of snow fell across northern vermont with locally higher amounts in the northern Green Mountains.
A cold Pacific storm produced snow across much of the Northern Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascades. Wet snow accumulated across the Northern Sacramento Valley with six inches just north of the city of Redding and two inches at the airport.
Gusty west winds across Lake Erie caused lake effect snow showers to develop during the morning hours. Up to 9 inches of snow fell in southern Erie County with 7 inches reported in Crawford County. Considerable blowing and drifting also occurred.
The third winter storm of the first week of December brought snow, high winds and blizzard conditions to southeastern Idaho. Sustained winds greater than 25 mph at the Pocatello airport dropped visibility to less than a half mile from around noon through 4 pm.
On Thursday, December 5th, a low pressure system over the Ohio Valley redeveloped along the middle Atlantic coastline, producing a large swath of moderate to locally heavy snow across much of central and southern Pennsylvania.
Low pressure moved from North Carolina to the Delmarva Peninsula between midnight and 3 pm on the 5th. This storm produced accumulating snowfall across the entire region as it moved by.
The first winter storm of the season dropped four to ten inches of snow across most of New Jersey with slightly lower amounts across the immediate Cape May County coast. In many places in the southern half of the state, this was more snow than fell all of last winter.
On Wednesday, December 4th, an area of low pressure started to develop along an old frontal boundary that snaked across the northwest Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf coast states.
A second storm developed quickly on the heels of the first winter storm . This storm affected the region from the evening of the 5th through the morning of the 6th. The second storm produced another 5 to 6 inches of snow across North and Central Maryland.
An area of low pressure moved east across southern Ohio on December 5th. Precipitation began during the early mornings hours of the 5th and ended around midnight on the 6th. The precipitation started as a mixture of freezing rain, sleet and snow at most locations.
A northeaster dropped heavy snow across much of New Jersey from the early morning of the 5th into the day on the 6th.
As a cold high pressure system settled over New England, a series of low pressure systems developed off the Mid Atlantic Coast during Friday, December 5th and Saturday, December 6th.The first low pressure system developed along the North Carolina Coast during Friday morning.
A low pressure system developed over the lower Mississippi Valley on Wednesday, December 3rd, and then moved slowly northeast, reaching the lower Ohio Valley by Friday morning, December 5th.
An area of low pressure moved east across southern Ohio and into Pennsylvania on December 5th. Precipitation began just before daybreak on the 5th and ended during the early morning hours of the 6th.
A low pressure system that developed along the Gulf Coast States on the 5th moved quickly northeast and dropped heavy snow across the southern half of New Jersey and Monmouth County. Lighter snow fell across Mercer and Middlesex Counties.
A significant winter storm occurred across portions of the Mid-Atlantic on the 5th and 6th of December. The wintry weather was caused by a low pressure system that was located over the southeast states, which then moved off the North Carolina coast on the 6th.
Northeast winds blowing down Lake Erie caused a reverse lake effect snow event along northern Erie County.
A fast moving low pressure system moved southeast through West Virginia on the 5th. The low center passed along the Interstate 64 corridor. Snow accumulated 2 to 6 inches across northern and central counties.
The combination of rain which fell on the evening of the 4th, clear skies, temperatures dropping below freezing and light winds caused black ice to form on the morning of the 5th in Berks County. This caused a couple of accidents, one fatal.
Westerly flow across Lake Erie caused lake effect snow showers to develop during the morning hours of December 5th. Locally heavy snowfall fell across inland Erie County. Winds became southwesterly by midday pushing the snow showers back north over Lake Erie.
Light snow fell across the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky. Snowfall accumulations totaled less than one half of an inch. However, slick roads contributed to an automobile accident that caused one fatality.
A deep upper level trough developed across the central U.S. allowing moisture from the deep south and Gulf of Mexico to move across Middle Tennessee.
An area of high pressure brought near or below freezing temperatures to many locations east of interstate 65 in southern middle Tennessee after midnight on the 4th.
An area of low pressure moving up the east coast on December 5th brought subfreezing air and widespread light snowfall to eastern Kentucky.
Low pressure tracked through the Tennessee Valley and emerged off the Mid-Atlantic coast on the 5th. This system spread precipitation across northern and central Virginia.
A strong northwest flow of arctic air with plenty of lingering synoptic moisture from a low over Quebec produced long lasting lake effect snow squalls to the southeast of Lakes Erie and Ontario. Upstream influences from Georgian Bay and Lake Huron only intensified the activity.
Soon after a winter storm affected the region one day earlier, another winter storm quickly followed. An upper level trough moved over the region on the fifth causing widespread snowfall across the region.
A winter storm affected much of North and Central Texas for an extended period from December 5th through the 10th. A combination of freezing rain, sleet, and a little snow began falling during the day on the 5th and continued through the morning hours of the 6th.
After Arctic air overspread Arkansas, an area of low pressure aloft moved toward the state from the southwestern United States. As the low pressure approached, moisture moved up over the cold air, resulting in wintry precipitation.
An early winter storm affected Oklahoma and western parts of North Texas on December 5th and 6th of 2013. The heaviest snow amounts of four to six inches fell along and north of Interstate 44, from near Quanah, Texas and Altus, to Fort Cobb and northern parts of the Oklahoma City metro.
From the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.
A strong cold front plowed through the extreme southern Texas Panhandle, South Plains, and Rolling Plains on the 4th, causing temperatures to plummet into the 20s overnight. This was the beginning of a three and a half day period of subfreezing temperatures in West Texas.
Arctic air spread across eastern Oklahoma on the 4th as a strong storm system developed across the western United States.
Arctic air spread across northwestern Arkansas on the 4th as a strong storm system developed across the western United States.
A double shot of winter weather impacted Oklahoma during the day on the 5th and continuing into the 6th. Initially, wintry precipitation came in all forms, with freezing rain, sleet and snow.
A winter storm produced a variety of precipitation types across western Kentucky. The precipitation changed from rain to freezing rain, then to sleet, and finally to snow in most areas.
A strong upper level disturbance and an arctic cold front brought periods of freezing rain, sleet and light snow to much of West Central Texas.
A major winter storm brought primarily heavy snow and sleet to southern Illinois. The precipitation changed from freezing rain to sleet and then to snow.
As a cold front stalled out to the east of central Indiana on December 5th and 6th, waves of low pressure rode along the front. These waves generated snow, sleet, and freezing rain across much of central Indiana.
A winter storm brought heavy snow along with sleet and light accumulations of freezing rain to southern Missouri from December 5 through December 6, 2013.
Another cold shallow arctic airmass moved southeast out of the Southern Plains and into the Lower Mississippi Valley the first week of December. The shallow subfreezing airmass was overridden with a very warm and moist airmass such that freezing rain fell across the region.
An approaching low pressure system from the Ohio Valley combined with a departing high pressure system over the Canadian Maritimes to give the Poconos an icy mixture of sleet and freezing rain during the afternoon and into the evening of the 5th.
A strong upper level trough deepened over North Dakota before closing off and nearly stalling, which was poorly projected by forecast models until the day of the event, while a strong cold front swept through the region.
A strong low pressure system moving across the Upper Great Lakes and a push of Arctic air behind this system generated moderate to heavy lake effect snow over the west to northwest snow belts of Lake Superior from the 5th into the 9th.
An upper disturbance and an associated surge of very cold air across Lake Superior resulted in moderate lake effect snow over the higher terrain of western Upper Michigan and northeast Upper Michigan from the 5th into the 6th.
A rapidly intensifying storm system produced strong to damaging winds and heavy rain (2-4 inches) which changed to a period of heavy snow in the higher elevations. The low pressure system crossed between Nantucket and Cape Cod before lifting northeast.
A strong low pressure system passing just north of Michigan's upper peninsula brought heavy, wet snow and wind gusts in excess of 40mph at times to the area beginning the morning of 12-5.
Prolonged stratus under an upper level ridge pattern brought periods of freezing fog and light freezing drizzle across the region. Locations across the region reported amounts of trace to 0.1 of ice accumulation.
An arctic cold front blasted through Northwest Pennsylvania during the early morning hours of December 5th, accompanied by a band of moderate to heavy snow showers and gusty winds up to 40 MPH.
A disturbance moved across the Mid-Atlantic bringing a swath of one to four inches of snow across Virginia. Temperatures were in the teens to 20s going into the event resulting in snow sticking to most untreated surfaces.
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December 2005 started very cold. The low temperature dropped to 4 degrees at Chicago Ohare Airport on the morning of the 5th and 6th. The temperature dropped to zero on the morning of the 7th. Three people in Chicago died from the cold weather.
Wind chills dropped to 18 to 25 below zero this night as northwest winds of 10 to 20 mph combined with subzero temperatures. The extreme cold followed a small storm system that dropped a dusting to several inches of snow across the area on Monday the 5th.
A frigid Arctic air mass moved into Oregon December 5th and remained over the area through December 12th, when it finally abated as a Pacific system approached the area.
Following several nights of subfreezing temperatures, a very cold air mass settled over the Mojave Desert and brought a hard freeze, which damaged some pipes.
Following several nights of subfreezing temperatures, a very cold air mass settled over the Mojave Desert and brought a hard freeze, which damaged some pipes.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's office reported the death of an elderly man from hypothermia.
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The Calfex Complex was discovered on December 5, 2012, in Riley County, Kansas, and burned 6,278 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
The Texas Block (05) Nov Fire was discovered on December 5, 2013, in Brevard County, Florida, and burned 1,300 acres; the cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
The Creek Fire was reported on December 5, 2017, in Los Angeles County, California, and burned 15,619 acres.
The Rye Fire was reported on December 5, 2017, in Los Angeles County, California, and burned 6,049 acres.
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An earthquake struck Ramala, Gaza, Nablus, Egypt, Israel, Syria. It killed 70,000 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage. It caused a tsunami.
An earthquake struck Croatia, Balkans NW.
An earthquake struck Avellino,napoli,abruzzi, Brindisi,benevento, Italy. With the tsunami it caused, it killed 30,000 people and did extreme (about $25 million or more) damage.
An earthquake struck S Batangas to N Cagayan, Luzon, Philippines.
An earthquake struck Ecuador. It killed some people (about 51 to 100).
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Chalkidiki, Greece. It caused a tsunami.
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Costa Rica-Panama. It killed 6 people. It caused a tsunami.
An earthquake struck NE, Anatolia, Turkey. It killed 550 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Dodecanese Islands, Greece. It caused a tsunami.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Ust-Kamchatsk, Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, Russia. It caused a tsunami.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck Flores, Ruteng, Indonesia.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Emmendingen, Freiburg Im Breisgau, Germany.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck Zemmouri, Algeria. It injured 46.
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Kalemie, Congo. It killed 6 people and destroyed 300 houses.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Khorasan Province, Iran. It killed 8 people and injured 12.
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. It caused a tsunami.
A magnitude 7 earthquake struck Offshore Cape Mendocino, California, United States. It caused a tsunami.
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck Khuzestan, Iran. It injured 48 and destroyed 100 houses.
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A tsunami with a source recorded as earthquake struck Akko, Syria. It killed 70,000 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck North Aegean Sea, Greece.
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Costa Rica-Panama, with a maximum water height of 0.21 meters. It killed 6 people.
A tsunami with a source recorded as earthquake and landslide struck Island of Kos, Greece, with a maximum water height of 1.2 meters.
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Kamchatka, Russia, with a maximum water height of 8 meters.
A tsunami with a source recorded as meteorological struck Southwest Australia, with a maximum water height of 0.45 meters.
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, with a maximum water height of 4 meters.
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Cape Mendocino, N. California, United States, with a maximum water height of 0.09 meters.
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A G4 (severe) geomagnetic storm began December 5, 1959, reached Kp 8- and lasted 12 hours, with a daily Ap as high as 68; at that Kp the aurora may be seen from about 47 degrees geomagnetic latitude.
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Dense fog reduced visibility to less than one quarter mile along the Interstate 75 and U.S. Highway 19/41 corridor from Levy County to Lee County in West Central and Southwest Florida.
Reduced visibility due to dense fog caused accidents creating a 33 vehicle pileup, with numerous resulting injuries.
Widespread dense fog blanketed western Kentucky during the early morning hours. Visibility was reduced to one-quarter mile or less. The dense fog formed along a stationary front that extended from the southern Plains northeast across the Lower Ohio Valley.
A swell from a powerful low far northwest of the islands generated surf of 20 to 35 feet along the north-facing, and 10 to 20 feet along the west-facing, shores of Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai. Surf reached 20 to 35 feet along the north-facing shores of Maui as well.
Clear skies, increased moisture from recent storm systems, and diurnal cooling associated with the presence of a retrograding upper level high pressure area over the central California region allowed for radiational nighttime/morning dense fog to develop in parts of the San…
High pressure built into central California during the morning of December 5 behind the departing storm which impacted the area the day before. This brought clearing skies and diminished winds to portions of the San Joaquin Valley.
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