Every tornado, hurricane, flood, blizzard, heat wave, record, earthquake, eruption, tsunami, wildfire and geomagnetic storm on record for May 9, in any year, each linked to its full record.
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By deaths, damage and strength together, across every archive.
Tornadoes
An F4 tornado touched down in Randolph, Ripley, Butler counties, Arkansas and tracked 60.3 miles, 600 yards wide at its widest, killing 98 and injuring 300. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: AR to Poplar Bluff, MO.
Tornadoes
28 tornadoes were recorded on May 9, 1927, in Texas, Indiana, Michigan, Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Iowa and more, 6 of them rated violent (F4 or EF4 and above). They killed 212 people.
Tornadoes
An F4 tornado touched down in Monroe, Cumberland, Adair counties, Kentucky and tracked 57.2 miles, 800 yards wide at its widest, killing 36 and injuring 87. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Tompkinsville, KY.
Tornadoes
An F4 tornado touched down in Union County, Arkansas and tracked 6.2 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest, killing 24 and injuring 72. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Strong, AR.
Tornadoes
An F4 tornado touched down in Collin County, Texas and tracked 12.6 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, killing 19 and injuring 100. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Nevada, TX.
Tornadoes
An F4 tornado touched down in Dallas County, Texas and tracked 0.9 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, killing 15 and injuring 40. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Garland, TX.
Tornadoes
An F4 tornado touched down in Lawrence County, Arkansas and tracked 5.3 miles, 50 yards wide at its widest, killing 11 and injuring 200. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Hoxie, AR.
Earthquakes
An earthquake struck Damavand,tehran,semnan,damghan, Iran. It killed 500 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
Tornadoes
An F4 tornado touched down in Floyd, Chickasaw, Winneshiek counties, Iowa and tracked 50 miles, 800 yards wide at its widest, killing 7 and injuring 15. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Calmar, IA.
Tornadoes
An F4 tornado touched down in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma and tracked 6.2 miles, 900 yards wide at its widest, killing 7 and injuring 12.
Tornadoes
An F4 tornado touched down in Hunt County, Texas and tracked 14.2 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, killing 6 and injuring 20. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: NW Greenville to Wolfe, TX.
Tornadoes
An F4 tornado touched down in Gentry, Harrison counties, Missouri and tracked 22.3 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, killing 4 and injuring 20. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: NE Albany to Blytheville, MO.
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An F3 tornado touched down in Seneca, Sandusky counties, Ohio and tracked 16 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, killing 2 and injuring 20. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: NW Tiffin/Fort Seneca/Green Springs/Clyde, OH.
An F4 tornado touched down in Gentry, Harrison counties, Missouri and tracked 22.3 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, killing 4 and injuring 20. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: NE Albany to Blytheville, MO.
An F3 tornado touched down in Wilson County, Kansas and tracked 14.9 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest, killing 2 and injuring 15. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: SW Fredonia/Altoona, KS.
An F3 tornado touched down in Scotland County, Missouri and tracked 4.7 miles. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: S Memphis, MO.
An F2 tornado touched down in Decatur County, Kansas and tracked 14.4 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 1. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: NE Oberlin, KS.
An F4 tornado touched down in Floyd, Chickasaw, Winneshiek counties, Iowa and tracked 50 miles, 800 yards wide at its widest, killing 7 and injuring 15. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Calmar, IA.
An F3 tornado touched down in Henry, Stark counties, Illinois and tracked 5.5 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, killing 2 and injuring 6. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: W Elmira, IL.
An F3 tornado touched down in Morgan County, Illinois and tracked 15.2 miles, 150 yards wide at its widest, killing 2 and injuring 1. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: S Jacksonville/Franklin/Waverly, IL.
An F3 tornado touched down in Scott County, Iowa and tracked 7.9 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 21. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Eldridge, IA.
An F3 tornado touched down in Bureau County, Illinois and tracked 10 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 6. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: S Buda/W Tiskilwa, IL.
An F3 tornado touched down in Butler, Floyd, Chickasaw counties, Iowa and tracked 13.1 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 5. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: S Packard/NE Plainfield, IA.
An F3 tornado touched down in Ogle, Winnebago, Boone counties, Illinois and tracked 34.9 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, injuring 19. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: NE Polo/Byron/Cherry Valley, IL.
An F3 tornado touched down in Muscatine County, Iowa and tracked 10.1 miles, 250 yards wide at its widest, injuring 7. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: SE Nichols, IA.
An F4 tornado touched down in Randolph, Ripley, Butler counties, Arkansas and tracked 60.3 miles, 600 yards wide at its widest, killing 98 and injuring 300. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: AR to Poplar Bluff, MO.
28 tornadoes were recorded on May 9, 1927, in Texas, Indiana, Michigan, Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Iowa and more, 6 of them rated violent (F4 or EF4 and above). They killed 212 people.
An F4 tornado touched down in Union County, Arkansas and tracked 6.2 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest, killing 24 and injuring 72. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Strong, AR.
An F4 tornado touched down in Collin County, Texas and tracked 12.6 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, killing 19 and injuring 100. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Nevada, TX.
An F4 tornado touched down in Dallas County, Texas and tracked 0.9 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, killing 15 and injuring 40. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Garland, TX.
An F4 tornado touched down in Lawrence County, Arkansas and tracked 5.3 miles, 50 yards wide at its widest, killing 11 and injuring 200. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Hoxie, AR.
An F4 tornado touched down in Hunt County, Texas and tracked 14.2 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, killing 6 and injuring 20. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: NW Greenville to Wolfe, TX.
An F3 tornado touched down in Craighead, Lawrence, Greene counties, Arkansas and tracked 26.5 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, killing 12 and injuring 8. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: SW Egypt/E Stanford, AR.
An F3 tornado touched down in Lonoke, Prairie, Woodruff counties, Arkansas and tracked 68 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, killing 8 and injuring 69. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: W Carlisle/S Hunter to Birdeye, AR.
An F2 tornado touched down in Cleveland, Lincoln counties, Arkansas and tracked 27.4 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, killing 9 and injuring 24. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Kingsland/Toledo/Randall, AR.
An F3 tornado touched down in Christian, Macon counties, Illinois and tracked 43.9 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 116. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: E Morrisonville to NE Decatur, IL.
An F2 tornado touched down in Ballard, McCracken, Massac counties, Kentucky and tracked 13.8 miles, 600 yards wide at its widest, killing 6 and injuring 20. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Joppa/Hillerman/Mermet/New Columbia, IL.
An F3 tornado touched down in Schuyler, Fulton counties, Illinois and tracked 12.2 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 12. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Hickory Township, IL.
An F3 tornado touched down in Williamson, Franklin counties, Illinois and tracked 15.7 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, injuring 21. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: SW Carterville/Herrin/Ezra/West Frankfort, IL.
An F2 tornado touched down in Union County, Arkansas and 150 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 35. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Norphlet, AR.
An F2 tornado touched down in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana and tracked 3.5 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 10. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Clarence, LA.
An F4 tornado touched down in Haskell County, Oklahoma and tracked 25.5 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest, killing 4 and injuring 15. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: SE Quinton to NW Keota, OK.
An F4 tornado touched down in Osage, Washington counties, Oklahoma and tracked 15.2 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 5. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Barnsdall to Bartlesville, OK.
An F2 tornado touched down in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma and tracked 0.6 miles, 30 yards wide at its widest, killing 2 and injuring 4. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: NW Arpelar, OK.
An F4 tornado touched down in Monroe, Cumberland, Adair counties, Kentucky and tracked 57.2 miles, 800 yards wide at its widest, killing 36 and injuring 87. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Tompkinsville, KY.
An F3 tornado touched down in Wilson, Trousdale counties, Tennessee and tracked 4.9 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, killing 2 and injuring 6. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: N Lebanon, TN.
An F3 tornado touched down in Hamilton, White counties, Illinois and tracked 8.4 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, killing 2 and injuring 3. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: N Dale to SE Norris City, IL.
An F2 tornado touched down in Metcalfe, Adair counties, Kentucky and tracked 16.2 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, killing 2 and injuring 12. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Columbia, KY.
An F3 tornado touched down in Ripley County, Indiana and tracked 7 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest, injuring 5. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: S Versailles, IN.
An F3 tornado touched down in Ohio County, Indiana and tracked 5.3 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, injuring 3. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: W Rising Sun, IN.
An F3 tornado touched down in Sevier County, Arkansas and tracked 3.6 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest, killing 2 and injuring 20. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: SE Horatio to E Horatio, AR.
An F2 tornado touched down in Castro, Swisher, Hale counties, Texas and tracked 18.2 miles, killing 2 and injuring 20. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: SE Hart/W Plainview/N Halfway, TX.
An F3 tornado touched down in Thayer, Fillmore, Saline counties, Nebraska and tracked 46.9 miles, 880 yards wide at its widest, killing 5 and injuring 82.
An F3 tornado touched down in Republic County, Kansas and tracked 13.5 miles, 10 yards wide at its widest.
An F4 tornado touched down in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma and tracked 6.2 miles, 900 yards wide at its widest, killing 7 and injuring 12.
An F3 tornado touched down in Mayes, Delaware counties, Oklahoma and tracked 23.2 miles, 880 yards wide at its widest, injuring 3.
An F3 tornado touched down in Van Buren, Jefferson, Henry counties, Iowa and tracked 17.8 miles, 250 yards wide at its widest, injuring 1.
An F3 tornado touched down in Rogers, Nowata counties, Oklahoma and tracked 23.4 miles, 50 yards wide at its widest.
An F3 tornado touched down in Keokuk County, Iowa and tracked 6.6 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest.
An F3 tornado touched down in Leake County, Mississippi and tracked 1 miles, 10 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 3.
An F3 tornado touched down in Edwards County, Kansas and tracked 9 miles, 200 yards wide at its widest.
An F3 tornado touched down in Morton County, Kansas and tracked 2.7 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest.
An F1 tornado touched down in Dakota County, Minnesota and tracked 0.2 miles, 50 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 11.
An F3 tornado touched down in Hill County, Texas and tracked 5.2 miles, 73 yards wide at its widest.
An F3 tornado touched down in Anderson, Henderson counties, Texas and tracked 15 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest.
An F3 tornado touched down in Randall, Potter counties, Texas and tracked 8.2 miles, 40 yards wide at its widest, injuring 1.
An F3 tornado touched down in Bell County, Kentucky and tracked 5 miles, 500 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 15.
An F2 tornado touched down in Collin, Dallas counties, Texas and tracked 12 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 63.
The Dickens County Sheriff's Office reported golf ball-size hail just west of Dickens and dime-size hail in Spur. The heavy rainfall from the storms resulted in flooding of highways and roads in central Dickens County. Only minor damage was noted.
An F3 tornado touched down in Sangamon, Menard, Logan counties, Illinois and tracked 50 miles, 880 yards wide at its widest, injuring 6.
An F3 tornado touched down in Scott, Muscatine counties, Iowa and tracked 10 miles, 73 yards wide at its widest.
An F3 tornado touched down in Bureau County, Illinois and tracked 22 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest.
A tornado briefly touched down 1 NW of Alexander destroying a couple of sheds and damaging one home. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.
39 tornadoes were recorded on May 9, 1995, in Mississippi, Alabama, Iowa, Illinois.
Capt. Lowell Snyder of the Muscatine County Sheriff's Department was pelted with marble- to golf ball-size hail and reported that Iowa 22 west of Muscatine was covered within minutes. He couldn't hear his dispatcher because of the hail pounding his car. Capt.
Strong thunderstorms fired as mentioned above in central Iowa. The main feature with the storms was the heavy rain. One of the storms became severe and produced a tornado near the town of Avery in Monroe County. It caused considerable damage.
A tornado hit along the Clay-Washington county line moving east through mainly the city of Vining, beginning about 1.5 West of town and ending about 1/2 mile eastnortheast. Some damage was also noted in Clifton.
A squall-line moved across central Indiana producing widespread tree damage, localized structural damage and one death and three injuries. A weak F0 tornado also briefly touched down in a farm field near Brownsburg doing no propery damage.
Thunderstorm winds snapped many large tree limbs and downed a few small trees across the northern half of the county.
Large branches ripped down.
An F1 tornado touched down in Marion County, Illinois and tracked 0.5 miles, 100 yards wide at its widest, killing 2.
A small but deadly tornado struck the south part of Centralia and devastated the Rosewood and Collinsworth Mobile Home Parks. Forming quickly on the leading edge of a squall line, the tornado hit shortly after 200 am, when most residents were asleep.
An F3 tornado touched down in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma and tracked 17.8 miles, 1,320 yards wide at its widest, injuring 2.
All of the tornadoes, nine total, that occurred on May 9, 2003 were produced by the same supercell. This thunderstorm developed in southwest Oklahoma along a retreating dryline. The storm moved northeast across Oklahoma eventually dissipating in northeastern Oklahoma.
This day in 2003 marked the last day of a 3-day string of strong to violent tornadoes over Oklahoma. Like the day before, May 9, 2003 saw strong tornadoes plague central parts of the Sooner state. During the evening hours, tornadic storms ripped through areas from near Binger, in Caddo County, east and northeast through Union City, Bethany and Warr Acres, into Edmond, Wellston and Stroud. The strongest tornado produced F3 damage as it tore through the Edmond and Luther areas. Remarkably, there were only 10 injuries and no fatalities. The low numbers are attributed to the preparedness and actions taken by Oklahomans, emergency management, broadcast media, and the National Weather Service Forecast Office.
From the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.
31 tornadoes were recorded on May 9, 2003, in Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, Oklahoma, Indiana, Missouri.
Water over Highway 65.
Public report of nickel size hail in Roper.
A small shed was destroyed.
An F3 tornado touched down in Collin, Grayson counties, Texas and tracked 9.3 miles, 300 yards wide at its widest, killing 3 and injuring 10.
Brief tornado caused no damage.
May 9 Severe Thunderstorm and Significant Tornado Event Summary...Two isolated supercell thunderstorms developed east of a dryline that was roughly oriented along the Caprock Escarpment during the late afternoon and early evening hours of the 9th.
A brief, narrow tornado was viewed by several people touching down near Lehigh in an open field. No damage was reported.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 miles an hour blew down trees and large tree limbs.
A mini-supercell thunderstorms produced a tornado with a nearly 20 mile path through the Gastonia and Charlotte metro areas during the early morning hours of May 9th.
Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced damaging winds and two tornadoes across portions of northeast North Carolina.
Multiple short waves moved across the region while a north flow remained in place. This caused multiple rounds of severe weather with hail, high winds, and a tornado in Louisiana from late during the 9th into the 10th.
An active Spring weather pattern led to numerous severe thunderstorms, many of which produced tornadoes, across north Texas during Mother's Day Weekend.
An EF3 tornado touched down in Eastland County, Texas and tracked 3.79 miles, 1,400 yards wide at its widest, killing 1 and injuring 2.
29 tornadoes were recorded on May 9, 2015, in Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska. They killed 1 people.
A slow-moving low pressure trough moved from the Rockies into the Plains during the 9th and 10th. Several disturbances rotating through this trough translated across the Southern Plains during this period.
As the upper low continued to slowly track east across the Great Plains, storms once again formed in north Texas and the Texas panhandle and made their way eastward across Oklahoma through the day and evening of the 9th.
Several long-track supercell thunderstorms developed during the evening hours and moved north. Seven tornadoes were reported over four hours, with some producing EF1-EF2 damage.
An EF4 tornado touched down in Garvin County, Oklahoma and tracked 8.9 miles, 400 yards wide at its widest, killing 1.
An EF3 tornado touched down in Johnston, Coal counties, Oklahoma and tracked 9.06 miles, 700 yards wide at its widest, killing 1.
An EF3 tornado touched down in Bryan, Choctaw counties, Oklahoma and tracked 13.8 miles, 3,100 yards wide at its widest, injuring 2.
28 tornadoes were recorded on May 9, 2016, in Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Illinois, Kansas, Montana, Texas, Arkansas, 1 of them rated violent (F4 or EF4 and above). They killed 2 people.
An EF3 tornado touched down in Murray, Pontotoc counties, Oklahoma and tracked 16.6 miles, 1,500 yards wide at its widest.
With the help of an upper low, storms fired along the dryline in central Oklahoma on the 9th, with some of them becoming severe.
On this date in 2016, a wind gust measuring 88 mph was recorded at the Sulphur Mesonet site, 4 miles north-northeast of Sulphur. The Mesonet site was located immediately south of the damage path associated with a long track tornado. The storm that produced this measured wind gust also produced an EF4 tornado just south of Elmore City, killing one person.
From the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.
A significant four-day outbreak of tornadoes impacted areas across the High Plains, central Midwest, and parts of the Ohio Valley in early May. The outbreak also produced the first EF4 tornado of the year in Katie, Oklahoma on May 9, where one death occurred.
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Severe thunderstorms developed along and ahead of a dry line across central Oklahoma during the afternoon of May 9th. The storms moved across eastern Oklahoma during the evening hours.
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A volatile atmosphere was in place across the Southern Plains during the afternoon and evening hours of Monday, May 9th. Instability became moderate to high ahead of an upper level disturbance that moved out of the Intermountain West and into the Plains.
A tornado moved through Saline County on May 9, 2016 and caused damage at several homes. It also uprooted or snapped numerous trees.
A potent upper level low pressure system moving slowly east across the desert southwest for several days combined with abundant moisture and instability on the 9th to generate a widespread, significant severe weather outbreak over central and eastern New Mexico.
A constant stream of tropical moisture was acted on by a very slowly moving cold front. Several rounds of thunderstorms developed, producing severe weather and a few reports of flash flooding.
A cold front pushed into the Mid-South and interacted with an unstable airmass to produce a broken line of showers and thunderstorms that moved across the area from late afternoon into the evening on May 9th.
Severe thunderstorms moved across the state of Mississippi and produced damaging wind gusts, hail, and one tornado. Two swaths of wind produced significant damage.
Two storm complexes moved across southeastern Mississippi, southwestern Alabama, and into the Florida Panhandle during the early morning hours of 5/10 producing destructive straight-line winds and multiple tornadoes.
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Hurricane Damrey reached its peak of 155 kt (180 mph) with a central pressure of 930 mb, a category 5 storm.
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Additional rain through the early morning hours of 2 to 4 inches resulted in some 24 hour totals between 8 and 9 inches as of 7am.Numerous rural roads were washed out, city streets and basements were flooded. Sawyer Road in Sawyer was covered with 2 feet of water.
Ice Jams formed on the Tanana River and Chena River in the greater Fairbanks area causing flooding of certain subdivisions in Zones 222 and 223. The cool temperatures during all of April and then rapid warm-up during early May contributed to the severe ice jamming.
A 17 year old man was killed when he tried to cross a flooded low-water crossing in a horse and buggy. The horse made it across safely.
A pattern change at the end of April brought a series of heavy rain producing systems to Eastern Iowa and Northern Illinois over the first 10 days of the month. Area rivers responded with the Iowa River going above flood stage starting on the 10th.
According to York County 911 dispatchers and spotters, minor flooding began across the county around 8:50 pm, with some water reported on Country Club Road and Route 24 in the Red Lion area.
Between 5:00 and 6:30 PM, nearly 3 to 5 inches of rain fell over the Columbus area. This intense amount of rain resulted in widespread flash flooding across the Columbus area. Many roads and area streets were under water.
Scattered thunderstorms brought heavy rainfall to south central Kentucky on May 9th. This area was already rain soaked from recent heavy rains and many streams and low lying areas began to flood.
The breakup front stopped just downstream of Stevens Village during the late morning hours on the 9th, and solid ice was in place where the river stops braiding and entering the canyon below Stevens Village.
A strong cold front that had moved into the mid state the night before continued to move southeastward through the mid state during the early morning hours on May 9th.
A series of upper level short wave troughs and a cold front brought severe thunderstorms to South Central Texas on consecutive days. These storms mainly produced large hail with several reports of damaging wind gusts and localized flash flooding.
Widespread severe weather and flash flooding occurred in addition to the outbreak of tornadoes.
A slow-moving low pressure trough moved from the Rockies into the Plains during the 9th and 10th. Several disturbances rotating through this trough translated across the Southern Plains during this period.
A cold front moved into the region during the 8th and stalled along the coast. Multiple strong upper level disturbances cross the area while the front was stalled and this produced multiple rounds of severe weather and flooding.
Warm, humid, and unstable conditions were in place across the Four State Region on May 9th, ahead of a cold front and attendant shortwave trough that traversed the Southern Plains during the afternoon.
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On May 9, 1964, a supercell thunderstorm formed over eastern Greer County, in southwest Oklahoma. This storm then proceeded to drop hail larger than baseballs along its entire 135-mile path into the south-central parts of the state. An Air Force plane that flew into the storm near Cooperton, in Kiowa County, disintegrated and crashed due to the barrage of hail, killing six people. Large hail damaged every roof in the community of Fletcher, just northeast of Fort Sill.
From the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.
Hail and wind cut a path 2 miles wide along hiway 96 across the entire county. Hail was piled 6 inches deep and was visible for several days after. Siding was extensively damaged on many homes...roofs were damaged...trees had bark stripped off.
Eight mile wide area of hail and wind moved across the county along and near kansas highway 96. Golf ball size hail and 80 mph wind were produced by a vicious thunderstorm that moved all the way from Scott county during the late evening hours.
A strong cold front moved slowly south across southeast Michigan during the afternoon and evening of the 9th. Thunderstorms developed in the warm, humid air out ahead of the cold front.
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Numerous large trees and power lines blown down across town. The high winds destroyed the Builder's Square building which was under construction. A house along Wildwood avenue was heavily damaged when a large tree fell onto it and injured 6 people inside.
Thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours on the 9th produced hail up to golf ball size, damaging winds, and dangerous lightning.A severe thunderstorm during the afternoon of the 9th tracked from about 7 miles northeast of Centenery to 7 miles east northeast of…
Thunderstorms developed north of a warm front in Missouri and raced northeast on a strong low level jet. A gravity wave developed off the thunderstorms in Eastern Iowa and Northwest Illinois and produced a concentrated band of high winds across Stephenson County Illinois.
Several trees were blown down five miles west northwest of Charlotte.
Hail was reported at Armory Road and Jacksboro Highway.
A strong low pressure system moved through the Great Basin region resulting in strong winds across southern Arizona.
Scattered thunderstorms developed both east and west of the dryline on the afternoon of the ninth with an upper level disturbance moving over West Texas.
A major macroburst with winds over 100 mph at times caused extensive damage in the Evansville area. Thunderstorms intensified and evolved into a bowing structure that spread east across southwest Indiana.
Severe thunderstorms brought hail and damaging winds to west, north and central Arkansas 5/9/16 to 5/12/16.
A cold front triggered strong to severe thunderstorms along and east of the I-55 corridor during the late afternoon and evening of May 9th. The strongest cells produced 60-70mph wind gusts and hail as large as quarters.
Scattered thunderstorms once again impacted Middle Tennessee on May 9, 2023. These thunderstorms were generally non-severe, however, one did produce a microburst in Lebanon.
A cluster of thunderstorms in northern Mexico began to bow out south of Hidalgo County and the Rio Grande River and headed for the southern half of Cameron County.
Complex of thunderstorms brings large hail and damaging wind gusts at rather odd time of day to portions of north central Kansas on May 9th.
Thunderstorms initially developed along a warm front over southwestern North Dakota during the late afternoon and early evening hours. One storm strengthened and became a supercell near the border of Mercer and Morton counties.
Severe storms developed over far southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas during the early morning of the 9th as a low level jet interacted with a stalled front along the northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma border.
Thunderstorms developed near the triple point of low pressure center, frontal boundary, and dryline. Some of these storms produced very large hail in excess of 5 to 6 inches in diameter and produced damaging wind gusts.
Friday night into Saturday, May 8-9, 2026, strong to severe thunderstorms in association with atmospheric disturbances initially developed across Zapata County on the 8th, before redeveloping as a single severe thunderstorm that waxed and waned between Starr and Cameron County…
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Man died of heat exposure while doing construction work inside a warehouse.
An unusually early season heat wave moved into Central and South Central Kansas on May 9th, 2011. This very warm airmass led to record high temperatures falling across the region with Russell, Salina and Wichita, Kansas all setting record high temperatures.
One person died in Las Vegas of heat related causes.
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A very warm spring resulted in an earlier than normal start to the growing season. Crops were two to three weeks ahead of normal. High pressure brought light winds and clear skies to the region ideal conditions for radiational cooling.
During the overnight hours of May 8th going into May 9th, a widespread hard freeze occurred across much of Indiana. Temperatures ranged from the low 30s in southern Indiana to the mid 20s in central Indiana and low 20s in northern Indiana.
Warm weather combined with cold and fast moving area waterways lead to 5 deaths across the region in the month of May.
A 30 year old female was swept away by cold and fast moving currents along the San Joaquin River near Newman on May 9th. She drowned, and her body was found on May 11th.
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The OGEMAW22 Fire started on May 9, 1987, in Michigan, and burned 1,954 acres.
The Eagle Fire was discovered on May 9, 1993, in California, and burned 4,600 acres; the cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
The Boden Fire was discovered on May 9, 1993, in California, and burned 1,300 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
The Pastura Fire was discovered on May 9, 1996, in New Mexico, and burned 1,000 acres.
The Beach Fire was discovered on May 9, 1997, in California, and burned 2,400 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
The Unnamed Fire was discovered on May 9, 1998, in Collier County, Florida, and burned 1,200 acres; the cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
The Janes Fire was discovered on May 9, 1998, in Florida, and burned 1,100 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
The Brown Fire was discovered on May 9, 1999, in Florida, and burned 1,565 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
The Northstar Fire was discovered on May 9, 2001, in Cochise County, Arizona, and burned 2,000 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
The Jones Fire was discovered on May 9, 2001, in California, and burned 1,488 acres; the cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
The Jackson B Fire was discovered on May 9, 2001, in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, and burned 1,263 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
The Walker Fire was discovered on May 9, 2003, in Otero County, New Mexico, and burned 3,439 acres; the cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
The Lacey Gulch Fire was discovered on May 9, 2004, in Rosebud County, Montana, and burned 3,040 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
The Berg Fire was discovered on May 9, 2006, in Palm Beach County, Florida, and burned 29,250 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
The Fakahatchee 07 Fire was discovered on May 9, 2007, in Collier County, Florida, and burned 5,000 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
The Solano Fire was discovered on May 9, 2008, in Arizona, and burned 2,575 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
The Iron Mountain Fire was discovered on May 9, 2011, in Brewster County, Texas, and burned 87,401 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
The Mayhill Fire was discovered on May 9, 2011, in New Mexico, and burned 31,861 acres; the cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
The Raging Bull Fire was discovered on May 9, 2011, in Eddy County, New Mexico, and burned 7,516 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
The Dans Bar Fire was discovered on May 9, 2011, in Lea County, New Mexico, and burned 2,000 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
The Matt Loop Fire was discovered on May 9, 2011, in Howard County, Texas, and burned 1,500 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
By the end of May, the Whitewater/Baldy Complex broke the record for the largest wildfire in New Mexico state history. The previous record was held by the Las Conchas wildfire of 2011 at just over 156,000 acres.
The Lion Fire was reported on May 9, 2016, in Apache County, Arizona, and burned 3,119 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
The Dove Fire was reported on May 9, 2017, in Graham County, Arizona, and burned 14,000 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
The Harwood Fire was reported on May 9, 2018, in Hall County, Texas, and burned 2,430 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
The Summer Field Fire was reported on May 9, 2018, in Armstrong County, Texas, and burned 1,000 acres.
The County Line Fire was reported on May 9, 2020, in Broward County, Florida, and burned 1,016 acres; the cause was recorded as human.
The Cuervito Fire was reported on May 9, 2021, in San Miguel County, New Mexico, and burned 1,621 acres; the cause was recorded as natural.
The Left Fork Fire was reported on May 9, 2022, in Kane County, Utah, and burned 4,231 acres.
The Helium Fire was reported on May 9, 2022, in Moore County, Texas, and burned 3,264 acres.
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An earthquake struck Qeshm, Iran. It did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
An earthquake struck Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It killed 5 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
A magnitude 3.7 earthquake struck Cananeia, Brazil. It caused a tsunami.
An earthquake struck Damavand,tehran,semnan,damghan, Iran. It killed 500 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
An earthquake struck Citta Della Pieve, Italy. It killed 1 person.
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Jalisco, Mexico.
An earthquake struck Central, Italy.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It caused a tsunami.
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Leon, Nicaragua.
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Simeulue Island, N. Sumatra, Indonesia.
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Takhar, Pakistan, Afghanistan. It injured 13.
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Gamalama, Indonesia erupted with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 3. It killed 35 people. The eruption caused a tsunami.
The Tenmei eruption was a large eruption of Mount Asama that occurred in 1783. This eruption was one of the causes of the Tenmei famine.
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Bandaisan, Japan erupted. It killed 2 people.
Banda Api, Pacific Ocean erupted with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 3. It killed 4 people.
Sinabung, Indonesia erupted. It killed 1 person and injured 4.
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A tsunami caused by a magnitude 3.7 earthquake struck Cananeia, Brazil.
A tsunami struck Sydney Harbor, Australia.
A tsunami struck Kuuli-Mayak, Turkmenistan, with a maximum water height of 1.35 meters.
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
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A G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm began May 9, 1951, reached Kp 7+ and lasted 21 hours, with a daily Ap as high as 47; at that Kp the aurora may be seen from about 48 degrees geomagnetic latitude.
A G4 (severe) geomagnetic storm began May 9, 1978, reached Kp 8- and lasted 21 hours, with a daily Ap as high as 85; at that Kp the aurora may be seen from about 47 degrees geomagnetic latitude.
A G5 (extreme) geomagnetic storm began May 9, 1992, reached Kp 9- and lasted 54 hours, with a daily Ap as high as 179; at that Kp the aurora may be seen from about 42 degrees geomagnetic latitude.
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A severe storm disaster that cost $2.4 billion in 2024 dollars, on NOAA’s billion-dollar list. It lasted from May 9, 2022 to May 9, 2022.
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A man was struck by lightning while walking his dog.
A 41 year old male from Louisiana was swimming by himself in the gulf near Perdido Key. The male got in trouble and someone was able to pull him out of the rough surf. He was transported to a local hospital where he died the next day.
A 34 year old male and a younger boy were swimming near Navarre Beach. The rough water kept taking the two farther offshore and they began to struggle. A surfer was able to paddle to them and brought the younger boy to shore.
3 fatalities were recorded when a 16 foot boat capsized near the Coos Bay south jetty. It was struck by two waves, the second capsized the vessel. The victims were not wearing life jackets and the water temperature was 52 degrees.
Gusty Southwest Winds lead to the capsizing of an America's Cup Yacht in San Francisco Bay during training runs.
A strong upper level trough moved out of the Texas Hill Country...towards the region during the late morning, afternoon and evening hours of May 9th.
Surface high pressure north of the region maintained moderate to fresh trade winds. Buoys indicated seas of 4 to 5 feet across Caribbean and Atlantic waters. Small craft operators were urged to exercise caution.
Yellow flag conditions with strong surf and dangerous rip currents are being blamed for one drowning on Santa Rosa Island.
An 18 year old local man drowned in a rip current at Treasure Shores Beach Park in Indian River County.
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