Texas Extreme Weather That Katharine Forgot

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By Paul Homewood

Hurricane Carla in 1961 at Freeport.

 

Katharine Hayhoe assures us that the weather in Texas is getting much more extreme.

I suggest she studies history.

The guys at the Texas Almanac have put together this account of extreme weather records:

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Temperature

Lowest

Tulia, Feb. 12, 1899
-23°F

Seminole, Feb. 8, 1933
-23°F

Highest

Seymour, Aug. 12, 1936
120°F

Monahans, June 28, 1994
120°F

Coldest Winter, 1898-1899
42.5°F

Warmest Summer, 2011
86.6°F

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Wind Velocity

Highest sustained wind

Matagorda – Sept. 11, 1961
SE, 145 mph

Port Lavaca – Sept. 11, 1961
NE, 145 mph

Highest peak gust

Aransas Pass – Aug. 3, 1970
SW, 180 mph

Robstown – Aug. 3, 1970
WSW, 180 mph

These velocities occurred during Hurricane Carla in 1961 and Hurricane Celia in 1970.

 

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Tornadoes

Since 1950, there have been six tornadoes recorded of the F5 category, that is, with winds between 261-318 mph. They were:

Waco
May 11, 1953

Wichita Falls
April 3, 1964

Lubbock
May 11, 1970

Valley Mills (McLennan Co.)
May 6, 1973

Brownwood
April 19, 1976

Jarrell (Williamson Co.)
May 27, 1997

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Rainfall

Wettest year statewide – 2004  (FNEP)¹
40.22 in.

1919  (NCDC)²
41.93 in.

Driest year statewide — 1917  (FNEP)¹
14.38 in.

1917  (NCDC)²
14.99 in.

Greatest annual – Clarksville — 1873
109.38 in.

Least annual – Wink – 1956
1.76 in.

†Greatest in 24 hours – Alvin, July 25-26, 1979
43.00 in.

†This is an unofficial estimate of rainfall that occurred during Tropical Storm Claudette. The greatest 24-hour rainfall ever recorded in Texas at an official observing site occurred at Albany, Shackelford County, on Aug. 4, 1978: 29.05 inches.

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Hail

(Hailstones six inches or greater, since 1950)

Winkler County – May 31, 1960
8.00 in.

Young County – April 14, 1965
7.50 in.

Ward County – May 10, 1991
6.00 in.

Burleson County – Dec. 17, 1995
7.05 in.

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Snowfall

Greatest seasonal – Romero³ (Hartley Co.), 1923-1924
65.0 in.

Greatest monthly – Hale Center, Feb. 1956
36.0 in.

Greatest single storm – Hale Center, Feb. 2-5, 1956
33.0 in.

Greatest in 24 Hours – Follett, March 28, 2009
25.0 in.

Maximum depth on ground – Hale Center, Feb. 5, 1956
33.0 in.

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OK, I know this is six years old, and I’m flogging this a bit. But these con artists need to be held to account, and the only time to do it is after the event when their predictions start unravelling.

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July 11, 2017 at 08:21AM