Every tornado, hurricane, flood, blizzard, heat wave, record, earthquake, eruption, tsunami, wildfire and geomagnetic storm on record for January 2, 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 Sangabad (Senjabad), Iran. It killed 300 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Narta, Vlore, Kanina, Albania. It killed 60 people. It caused a tsunami.
Tsunamis
A tsunami with a source recorded as questionable earthquake struck Albanian Coasts. It killed 60 people.
Tornadoes
An F3 tornado touched down in Caddo Parish, Louisiana and tracked 6 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest, killing 5 and injuring 21. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Mooringsport, LA.
Earthquakes
An earthquake struck El Affroun, Algeria. It killed 70 people and injured 100.
Cold
The January–March 2014 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event that extended through the late winter months of the 2013–2014 winter season, and was also part of an unusually cold winter affecting parts of Canada and parts of the north-central and northeastern United States. The event occurred in early 2014 and was caused by a southward shift of the North Polar Vortex.
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Earthquakes
5 earthquake struck near San Marcos in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 kilometres (11 mi).
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Winter storms and snow
Snowstorm of January 2, 1971 was ranked category 3, Major, on NOAA’s Regional Snowfall Index, strongest in the Upper Midwest. It lasted from January 2, 1971 to January 5, 1971.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Ningxia, China. It injured 6 and did $1.2 billion in damage.
Hurricanes and tropical storms
Hurricane Rewa reached its peak of 125 kt (145 mph) with a central pressure of 920 mb, a category 4 storm.
Tornadoes
An F3 tornado touched down in Pike County, Georgia and tracked 3 miles, 440 yards wide at its widest, injuring 3.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Guerrero, Mexico. It killed 2 people, destroyed 380 houses and did $3.6 million in damage. It caused a tsunami.
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An F3 tornado touched down in Caddo Parish, Louisiana and tracked 6 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest, killing 5 and injuring 21. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Mooringsport, LA.
An F2 tornado touched down in Saline County, Arkansas and tracked 9.7 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 10. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Benton, AR.
An F2 tornado touched down in Little River County, Arkansas, killing 1. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Cameron's Mill/N Texarkana, AR.
An F2 tornado touched down in Jasper, Newton counties, Texas and tracked 4.5 miles, 250 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 10.
29 tornadoes were recorded on January 2, 1999, in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia. They killed 1 people.
An F2 tornado moved across southern Jasper County. At least 15 homes were destroyed, 20 received major damage, and 10 received minor damage. The worst hit area was Callier Loop, south of Buna. The fatality occurred here.
A tornado initially struck at Panama City Beach damaging several homes and a few hotels within a four-block area surrounded by Sunset Ave-Thomas and Holiday Dr. The tornado again touched down two miles to the north at the Hathaway Bridge (U.S.
A tornado touched down just east of I-95 and north of Blue Heron Blvd. and travelled toward the east southeast for more than three miles before dissipating over the intracoastal waterway near the Port of Palm Beach.
A tornado moved across sections of New Iberia, damaging three schools and at least 20 other homes and businesses. One mobile home was flipped over and two other homes were completely destroyed when a large oak tree crashed through them.
A severe thunderstorm moved from Shriever in northern Terrebonne Parish northeast across Lafourche Parish to Bayou Boeuf just south of Lac des Allemands producing a couple of weak and brief tornadoes along its path.
A strong tornado moved across southern and eastern sections of Hayes, destroying several homes and one farm. A couple was injured slightly when their permanent wood home was completely flattened in the tornado.
A National Weather Service damage survey concluded that a tornado initially touched down along North Street, one half mile south of Symmes Road in Gibsonton, or about nine miles southeast of downtown Tampa.
A long tornado touched down in northern Acadia Parish. The most extensive damage occurred near the Richard community, where one house was nearly destroyed and another 6 received minor damage.A small airplane parked on the ground east of Iota was picked up and moved 100 yards.
A tornado touched down southwest of Patterson, destroying one mobile home, several storage buildings, and removing the roof from one home. Three people were inside the mobile home at the time of the tornado, but only one person received minor injuries.
A National Weather Service damage survey, in coordination with Sarasota Emergency Management officials, concluded that a tornado in the high end of the F0 range, first touched down in the Lazy River mobile home park along U.S. Highway 41 and the Myakka River.
A National Weather Service damage survey concluded that a tornado touched downed at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron, 2.5 miles west of downtown Sarasota and toppled 34 boats on storage trailers. Ten of the boats sustained mast damage while most others received minor hull damage.
A tornado touched down along County Road 39, approximately 3.5 miles south of State Road 60, over rural, semi-wooded countryside of eastern Hillsborough county.
The initial touchdown occurred just off Hwy 87 at the intersection of Car Street and Featherstone Street where it ripped off the roof of a dilapidated house.
A small tornado touched down in Leonville, damaging several homes and businesses. Frozen chickens from a freezer were reported to be picked up by the tornado and deposited a quarter of a mile away in a neighbors front yard.
A small tornado touched down in southern sections of Jennings, ripping a portion of a roof off a home and destroying a garage. Tops of the trees nearby were sheared off. Five other homes and several mobile homes reported minor damage.
A small tornado moved across the Carlyss area south of Sulphur, damaging buildings at a gas plant, and several other area wide homes and businesses.
This tornado originally touched down 4 miles west of Sugartown, damaging one home. it continued northeast and intersected Highway 113 near the Whiskey Chitto Creek bridge. A large swath of large trees were sheared off and twisted. A few homes in this area received roof damage.
A small but strong tornado moved across rural areas south of Ragley. One new mobile home that was in the path was completely destroyed. Debris was scattered for over a mile. The residents had heard the warnings and escaped the home minutes before it was destroyed.
This tornado damaged several homes, including ripping the roof off one house. Numerous trees were ripped up and twisted along the tornado path near Highway 113.
The same storm that produced the tornado near Dry Creek produced a second tornado, this time in Allen Parish south of Mittie. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down along the track. One barn was totally destroyed. The roof was ripped off of one home.
A lone "supercell"-like thunderstorm was observed by Miami doppler radar moving ashore from the Gulf of Mexico into Mainland Monroe County. The thunderstorm then moved at a forward speed of 35 mph across south Miami-Dade County.
An F3 tornado touched down in Pike County, Georgia and tracked 3 miles, 440 yards wide at its widest, injuring 3.
The National Weather Service river gage on Crooked Creek along the Fulton/Gwinnett county line, or about 4 miles west-northwest of Norcross indicated that the river had exceeded flood stage at 8:35 AM EST and fell below flood stage at 11:45 am EST.
The tornado touched down near Cecilia, blowing the roof off a barn, but only producing shingle damage on nearby residences. It did more damage when it reached St. John Road, where it destroyed a home and some farm buildings.
Two people were injured as an F2 tornado swept through western and central Lincoln County. A man received minor injures when a barn he was in collapsed around him. An elderly woman was hospitalized with a broken collar bone and nose.
The tornado touched down near Talley in southwest Larue County, and was intermittently on the ground until lifting just east of Tanner. Near Talley, the tornado lifted the roof off a home. A home on Upton-Talley Road had the front porch and much of the roof removed.
Thunderstorm winds knocked a roof off a house just north of Reidsville and knocked 2 roofs off houses and destroyed sheds in Collins. Trees were also blown down in Collins.
A tornado touched down at 322 PM near the corner of Bramers and Campground Road in western Jefferson County. Many homes along the damage path had roof damage. A large, well constructed barn was destroyed.
The first tornado touched down near Columbia. It destroyed a mobile home and removed the roof from a house. Other homes and mobile homes were damaged. The tornado lifted and the parent cell travelled into northeast Adair County.
Multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms affected the region to start the year. Two day rainfall totals in excess of 8 inches were common across portions of the Florida panhandle with several roads flooded.
39 tornadoes were recorded on January 2, 2017, in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia.
A moist and unstable air mass spread north from the gulf while a strong cold front pushed in from the west. A line of thunderstorms developed along the frontal boundary as it moved across the region.
A strong mid-level short wave swept across the southeastern U.S. during the afternoon and overnight interacting with an unseasonably warm and moderately unstable atmosphere across central Georgia.
A line of thunderstorms moved across Southeast Texas during the morning of the 2nd with a cold front. A pair of tornadoes occurred with this line of storms.
Showers and thunderstorms affected much of the area ahead of a strong storm system and associated cold front. Some of the storms became severe with damaging winds and a few tornadoes, mainly on January 2nd.
A few strong to severe thunderstorms moved across Arkansas on the afternoon and evening of the 2nd. Damaging winds and a tornado occurred over portions of far southeast Arkansas. Over central and northern Arkansas, storms occurred but damage was highly localized.
A vigorous upper level trough traversed east through the Desert Southwest and into the Southern Rockies January 1st, before ejecting northeast across the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles into Western Kansas on the 2nd.
A line of storms produce damaging winds and tornadoes.
Unseasonably warm, moist, and unstable air was in place across eastern Oklahoma on January 2nd, ahead of an approaching cold front and strong upper level disturbance. Strong to severe thunderstorms developed into and across eastern Oklahoma during the|afternoon and evening.
A line of storms produce damaging winds and tornadoes.
A warm front lifted northward off the Gulf Coast, causing rapid moisture transport to the Mid-South. In addition, an upper-level trough and associated cold front approached the area.
A few damaging wind events and an isolated tornado occurred across western Kentucky during the late night/early morning hours. Instability was meager, but very strong wind shear contributed to an environment favorable for a few severe storms.
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Hurricane Alice crossed the coast as a category 1 hurricane, 65 kt (75 mph), central pressure 991 mb. Hurricane Alice is the only known Atlantic hurricane to span two calendar years and one of only two named Atlantic tropical cyclones, along with Tropical Storm Zeta of 2005, to do so. The twelfth tropical cyclone and the eighth hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season, Alice developed on December 30, 1954, from a trough of low pressure in the central Atlantic Ocean in an area of unusually favorable conditions.
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Hurricane Rewa reached its peak of 125 kt (145 mph) with a central pressure of 920 mb, a category 4 storm.
Storm surges, several feet above normal astronomical tides, developed ahead and with a north northeast to south southwest oriented squall line that moved east at 40 to 50 mph nearly perpendicular to Florida's West coast.
Storm surge, partly enhanced by a fast moving squall-line that extended perpendicular to the West Florida peninsula, produced damage to homes and businesses along the immediate coast.
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A large levee break on the Feather River occurred as river flows equaled or exceeded the design parameters for the levee system. The results were 900 flooded homes and many people stranded on the roofs of homes and other high areas.
The heavy rains brought the Cosumnes River to record flows above designed limits for the protective levees. Twenty breaks occurred, with the largest near the town of Wilton in the southern end of the county.
Rain slick roads caused auto accident
The Withlacoochee River at Holder crested at 10.5 feet, two and a half feet above the flood stage of eight feet on the 20th. Up to 200 homes in the Arrowhead subdivision were damaged by floodwaters near State Road 200 north of County Road 491.
Torrential rainfall from a nearly stationary line of thunderstorms dropped an estimated 10 to 15 inches of rain, most of it falling within a two hour period, in the Highland Pines Subdivision in Palm Beach Gardens.
Flooding caused bridge over FM 55 to collapse. Several other secondary roads were also closed due to flooding.
A surface low developed over the southern Plains and moved east into the Tennessee Valley, resulting in numerous thunderstorms across the area that produced damaging winds and flooding across southwest and south central Alabama.
A surface low developed over the southern Plains and moved east into the Tennessee Valley, resulting in numerous thunderstorms across the area that produced damaging winds and flooding across the western Florida Panhandle.
A large storm system impacted the region during the late afternoon and evening of January 2nd into the morning hours of the 3rd. A low pressure system moved through the region and brought bouts of of thunderstorms and very heavy rainfall.
From December 29 - January 16, a strong and persistent Aleutian Low pressure system developed in the eastern Pacific which directed the jet stream and primary storm track at Washington State that resulted in a rapid series of atmospheric rivers and wind storms that battered…
A quasi-stationary westerly upper flow regime yielded multiple atmospheric rivers over Northwest California during the first two weeks of January. Impacts from these events were widespread, both in terms of flooding and wind damage.
An active weather pattern brought rounds of rain, mountain snow and gusty southerly winds from January 1st through January 5th. There were numerous flooding reports from moderate to heavy rain, along with some reports of mud and rock slides in the foothills.
Storm systems continued to bring rain to Northwest California in early January. Persistent south winds resulted in over 1.5 feet of storm surge along the coast resulting in inundation of many homes in the King Salmon area.
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In the Jamestown Community two residents with minor damage. In an Industrial Park a boat manufacturing company had one building destroyed and moderate damage to one end of their main building.
The Pointe Coupee Sheriff's Office reported several trees blown down.
Trees and power lines down at U.S. Highway 84 and GA Highway 38.
High winds over the coast, Kitsap peninsula and northward from Everett downed trees and disrupted power to about 55,000 homes. In the Arlington area, school was cancelled and a tree fell on a fire engine, damaging it. In Everett, a tree fell on a mobile home.
Strong west to northwest winds, gusting to 65 MPH, affected the community of Cambria in San Luis Obispo county. In total, 84 homes sustained damage with 31 homes sustaining major damage. Estimates of property damage were around $4 million.
Hail reported at Upton.
A strong Pacific storm brought widespread gusty winds over 50 mph all the way from the coast to the mountains. The winds downed trees, phone lines, and power lines. Some trees fell across automobiles and houses, while others fell across roadways and power lines.
A shortwave trough and a Pacific Cold Front moved across the Southern Plains during the first days of 2017.
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Snowstorm of January 2, 1947 was ranked category 2, Significant, on NOAA’s Regional Snowfall Index, strongest in the South. It lasted from January 2, 1947 to January 4, 1947.
Snowstorm of January 2, 1971 was ranked category 3, Major, on NOAA’s Regional Snowfall Index, strongest in the Upper Midwest. It lasted from January 2, 1971 to January 5, 1971.
In 1996, the new year was brought in on a snowy note. On the 1st and 2nd, a strong storm system dumped up to 6 inches of snow over a large part of southern, through northeast Oklahoma. The hardest hit areas extended from near Durant and Ada, northeast toward Tulsa. Over central Oklahoma, down into western north Texas, a glaze of ice was seen, with several accidents reported in the Oklahoma City area.
From the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.
Snow fell, with the heaviest snow occurring overnight and the morning of the 3rd. Accumulations averaged as little as 4 to 6 inches along the Lake Erie shore to 14 inches inland.
Snow became heavy at times and heavy snow fell during the overnight hours into the morning of the 3rd.
Low pressure strengthening in the Tennessee valley passed southeast of Ohio. The heaviest snow fell near and north of interstate 70, across West Central Ohio where there was up to 1 foot of snowfall and blizzard conditions.
A major winter storm formed over the Gulf Coast and tracked up the Eastern Seaboard, bringing heavy snow to central New York.
Low pressure strengthening in the Tennessee Valley passed southeast of Indiana. The heaviest snow fell across East Central Indiana, near Interstate 70. In this area there was up to 1 foot of snowfall, and blizzard conditions.
A car skidded to the shoulder of Hwy 97 just south of the Hwy 62 intersection and crashed into a snowplow head-on, killing both occupants of the car, a father and son from Canada.
A strong winter storm approached the region from the south central U.S., bringing a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain to western Pennsylvania. Across southwest Pennsylvania, between 1 and 3 inches of snow fell before the precipitation turned to freezing rain.
Two teenagers from Mapleton were killed when they triggered an avalanche in Fairview Canyon, 12 miles southeast of Fairview in San Pete County. The boys, ages 16 and 17, ventured out onto a snow cornice which collapsed, sweeping the pair 150 feet down the mountain.
A shallow cold arctic airmass in place ahead of a developing storm system in the southern Plains set the stage for a significant ice storm for most of the Upstate during the evening of the 2nd.
Snow changed to freezing rain and sleet, with a brief change to rain as temperatures rose slightly above freezing, and then back to snow.
Wintry precipitation affected Eastern Pennsylvania the evening of the 2nd and morning of the 3rd.
Snow changed to freezing rain and sleet, then briefly to rain as temperatures rose above freezing, and back to snow again. Snow accumulations averaged around six inches.
An intensifying storm over the Southern Plains moved northeast spreading a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain across the area. Several inches of snow were followed by sleet and freezing rain.
A strong low pressure system moved from the mid Mississippi Valley on the morning of the 2nd, to northern Lake Huron by the afternoon of the 3rd.
A deep area of low pressure moved from the Mississippi Valley into the central Great Lakes Region during the night of January 2 and January 3. With arctic air in place over New York State, a wintry mix of heavy sleet and freezing rain resulted.
One of the biggest snow storms to affect north and central Georgia since March 1993 began early on the 2nd and continued through mid-day on the 3rd.
The same storm which brought heavy snow to much of north and central Georgia from the 2nd to the 3rd first began across the southeast portion of central Georgia.
Snowstorm of January 2, 2003 was ranked category 2, Significant, on NOAA’s Regional Snowfall Index, strongest in the Northeast. It lasted from January 2, 2003 to January 5, 2003.
The Avalanche was located about 10 miles north of Fairfield and 1 mile south of the Soldier Mountain Ski Resort. The snow slide was 500 to 700 feet long.
An area of low pressure over the northern Great Lakes region early Sunday, January 2, 2005 moved northeast into southern Canada. It reached the James Bay area of Canada the night of January 2nd.
An avalanche buried 4 people on snowmobiles, and resulted in one fatality.
An ice climber was killed when an avalanche one-quarter mile across swept 2,000 feet down a mountainside and spilled over the edge of a steep slope he was climbing. His climbing partner was uninjured.
An avalanche, 200 feet wide, buried and killed a snowmobiler from La Pine, Oregon on Paulina Peak which is south of Bend.
Record Snowfall occurred across the greater Burlington area on January 2nd into January 3rd.
The new year (and decade) began with the latest in a series of Pacific storms that stretched back to December 17th, 2010. This storm brought strong, gusty winds to the region, especially to the base of the Grapevine, where gusts up to 89 mph were recorded on January 2nd.
A California woman was killed when she lost control of her vehicle on ice and packed snow and collided with another vehicle. No precipitation was occurring at the time.
Scattered snow-showers combined with falling temperatures created icy conditions on area roadways. Numerous accidents were reported, including one that resulted in a fatality in Clark County.
Snow showers in strong northwest winds behind a cold front produced bands of lake enhanced snow across western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, Garrett county Maryland, and eastern Ohio.
On the morning of January 2, 2012, a narrow band of accumulating snowfall occurred over the Cincinnati metropolitan area. While less than an inch of snow fell for most of the region, traffic was at a standstill and numerous accidents were reported.
For a few hours during the early morning hours of January 2, 2014, light freezing rain created a coating of ice on numerous roadways around eastern Kentucky.
A winter storm dropped 5 to 9 inches of snow across Eastern Pennsylvania from the middle of afternoon of the 2nd into the morning of the 3rd. This caused hazardous traveling conditions for the evening commute on the 2nd and the morning commute on the 3rd.
A winter storm dropped 4 to 8 inches of snow across Delaware from the late afternoon of the 2nd into the morning of the 3rd. This caused hazardous traveling conditions for the evening commute on the 2nd and the morning commute on the 3rd.
An area of low pressure moved east across the Tennessee Valley on January 2nd. A trough extending north from this low caused snow to develop just after midnight on January 2nd.
A cold air mass in place, increasing moisture, and the approach of a storm system set the stage for a relatively significant winter weather episode across the Texas Panhandle.
A low pressure system in Bristol Bay brought winds and heavy precipitation to the southcentral area.
This storm was a rare lake effect blizzard, producing a period of blizzard conditions northeast of Lakes Erie and Ontario.
Light freezing drizzle and light freezing rain started in West Central Texas mainly around midnight on January 2nd, and continued off and on through the morning of January 3.
An anomalously moist Pacific system interacted with an arctic air mass that gradually moved west across the Continental Divide. The higher impact area with the combination of precipitation and cold air ended up being across northwest Montana due to icy roads.
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Very cold air moved across northern Illinois on January 2nd and January 3rd with low temperatures in the single digits. Two people died due to cold exposure.
A strong cold front moved through the area Tuesday night with strong high pressure behind the front bringing an arctic airmass over the state on strong northerly flow.
A strong arctic cold front moved into central and southern Minnesota on January 1, dropping temperatures below zero.
The most profound cold snap to occur in at least 14 years over West Tennessee occurred during the first two weeks of January 2010. Highs in Memphis stayed below freezing for 11 out of 13 days between January 2nd and January 14th.
Several strong cold fronts brought reinforcing arctic air masses into east central Florida over a consecutive 12-day period.
Arctic air invaded southeast Louisiana for an 8 day period in early January, bringing the coldest weather in over 20 years to much of the region.
January began with the central and southern San Joaquin Valley under a cold, dry airmass that moved into the region.
The January–March 2014 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event that extended through the late winter months of the 2013–2014 winter season, and was also part of an unusually cold winter affecting parts of Canada and parts of the north-central and northeastern United States. The event occurred in early 2014 and was caused by a southward shift of the North Polar Vortex.
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Dangerously cold wind chills of -40 to -50 developed across parts of northeast Minnesota. A Virginia man froze to death after leaving a nearby bar. He was last seen at a local bar around midnight. His body was found February 3rd a half-block from where he was least seen.
A man apparently fell outside his New Ulm home during the afternoon and died that evening due to exposure from the cold. The high temperature at New Ulm that afternoon was Zero degrees F, and a few hours later, the temperature fell to -18 F during the evening of the 2nd.
Two persons were discovered deceased from hypothermia due to outdoor exposure to subfreezing temperatures.
Subzero low temperatures, highs mainly in the single digits, and wind chills in the 20 below to 34 below zero range were common during the first week of January. Two people died in the cold.
The coldest Oklahoma temperature of 2019 occurred on this day in the Oklahoma Panhandle near Guymon. The temperature bottomed out at minus 6 degrees Fahrenheit. With a gusty north wind, the wind chill dropped to minus 17.
From the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.
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The Txnewyear Fire was discovered on January 2, 1995, in Texas, and burned 2,000 acres; the cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
The Panau Iki Fire was discovered on January 2, 2003, in Hawaii, and burned 2,019 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
A grass fire destroyed 6 houses in the town of Huckabay.
The Huckabay Fire was discovered on January 2, 2006, in Erath County, Texas, and burned 5,000 acres.
The Hopkins Fire was discovered on January 2, 2006, in Coal County, Oklahoma, and burned 2,000 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
The Mollicy Warren Fire was discovered on January 2, 2006, in Louisiana, and burned 1,806 acres.
The Hicks Fire was discovered on January 2, 2006, in Oklahoma, and burned 1,200 acres; the cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
The King Ranch Fire was discovered on January 2, 2011, in Texas, and burned 8,000 acres.
The Wf Holiday 1-2 Fire was discovered on January 2, 2012, in Texas, and burned 14,170 acres.
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An earthquake struck Algiers, Algeria. With the tsunami it caused, it killed many people (about 101 to 1,000) and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Apscheron Peninsula, Azerbaijan.
An earthquake struck Durango, Mexico.
An earthquake struck Bulgavar (SE Ardabil), Iran.
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Narta, Vlore, Kanina, Albania. It killed 60 people. It caused a tsunami.
An earthquake struck Puebla, Veracruz, Mexico. It did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
An earthquake struck El Affroun, Algeria. It killed 70 people and injured 100.
An earthquake struck Sangabad (Senjabad), Iran. It killed 300 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
An earthquake struck Ometepec, Mexico. It did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Turkey. It did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Efate, Port Vila, Vanuatu Islands. It caused a tsunami.
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Tajikistan. It destroyed 98 houses and did $1.5 million in damage.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Bastak, Iran. It killed 1 person, injured 30 and did $2 million in damage.
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck Yunnan Province, China. It injured 30 and did $51 million in damage.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Ningxia, China. It injured 6 and did $1.2 billion in damage.
5 earthquake struck near San Marcos in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 kilometres (11 mi).
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Guerrero, Mexico. It killed 2 people, destroyed 380 houses and did $3.6 million in damage. It caused a tsunami.
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Karymsky, Russia erupted with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 2. The eruption caused a tsunami.
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A tsunami with a source recorded as earthquake struck Algiers, Algeria, with a maximum water height of 5 meters. It killed many people (about 101 to 1,000) and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
A tsunami with a source recorded as questionable earthquake struck Albanian Coasts. It killed 60 people.
A tsunami with a source recorded as volcano struck Karymskoye, Kamchatka, Russia, with a maximum water height of 30 meters.
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Vanuatu Islands, with a maximum water height of 3 meters.
A tsunami with a source recorded as meteorological struck Cheju (Jeju) Strait, South Korea. It killed 1 person.
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Acapulco, Mexico, with a maximum water height of 0.05 meters. It killed 2 people, destroyed 380 houses and did $3.6 million in damage.
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A G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm began January 2, 1949, reached Kp 7- and lasted 15 hours, with a daily Ap as high as 45; at that Kp the aurora may be seen from about 52 degrees geomagnetic latitude.
A G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm began January 2, 1964, reached Kp 7- and lasted 12 hours, with a daily Ap as high as 53; at that Kp the aurora may be seen from about 52 degrees geomagnetic latitude.
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A powerful storm low northwest of Hawaii generated surf of 15 to 30 feet along the northwest-facing shores of all the islands.
Family passing through area stopped for lunch. While playing near the water a large wave pulled several family members into the water. 38 year old was attempting to rescue the 8 year old boy.
January 2, 2004, was a warm day across western north Texas as the mercury soared to 80 degrees at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls. This high temperature broke a 17-year record by 1 degree for the warmest temperature for that date.
From the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.
At about 17:30 GST the evening of January 2nd, a six-person outrigger canoe rowed by a high-school rowing club capsized in rough water and high surf along the reef line of Tumon Bay on the west coast of Guam. A man in a kayak who went out to help was also overturned in the surf.
A storm in the central, north Pacific sent a large, long-period west swell into the Southern California coastal waters from the 2nd through the 3rd, causing surf of 5 to 8 feet with max sets 10-14 feet along the Orange and San Diego County beaches.
Strong currents caused the deaths of two people in Saiapn.
Strong east winds brought rough seas and rip currents to all Atlantic beaches during the day. A man drowned near Pompano Beach Pier.
A combination of moderate winds and a northeasterly swell resulted in breaking waves of 6 to 11 feet along the northern coast of Puerto Rico.
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