Hoosier Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Hesston and Goessel, Kansas etched their place in weather history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjack123 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I was nine years old when that happened. Temperatures that day were in the low to mid 70s with dews in the upper 50s to lower 60s. The next day it snowed. I remember it as plain as day and one of the F4 tornadoes near the Kansas/Nebraska border carved a path 131 miles long and stayed on the ground for 2 and a half hours. Also I think the Hesston tornado was possibly the most powerful tornado in Kansas history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettjrob Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Some pretty cool video clips here I hadn't seen before elsewhere: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/?n=hesston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Some pretty cool video clips here I hadn't seen before elsewhere: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/?n=hesston Those videos are amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Posted this on the board before, but here it is again. This is the F3 Cordova tornado (15miles north-northeast of the QC) from March 13 1990. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Posted this on the board before, but here it is again. This is the F3 Cordova tornado (15miles north-northeast of the QC) from March 13 1990. you know your in trouble when your in the forward flank hail core of a northeast moving storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 you know your in trouble when your in the forward flank hail core of a northeast moving storm. Yeah the hail was even larger when the storm was down in the QC. Much of Moline and East Moline had baseball size hail that fell for over 5 minutes. Luckily the tornado didn't touch down until it reached LeClaire or it could have been a much costlier tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo6899 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Today its snowing there so what a change. Any idea if it was an el nino or la nina that year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Here's a few satellite images from the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Some more info from this date. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/NARR/1990/us0313.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indystorm Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I had forgotten the Hesston tornado was so early in the season. My physical therapist went to Hesston College and told me some personal observations about this storm and its impact on the community. Absolutely amazing videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 Today its snowing there so what a change. Any idea if it was an el nino or la nina that year? neutral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 http://iowawx.com/2009/03/12/historical-wx-march-13th-1990/?like=1 "Two F5 tornadoes dropped down in Kansas, with Hesston being the most devestated. In Iowa, the tornadoes began after 4pm, the “famous” tornado in Iowa was the tornado that went across the Quad Cities Metro Area shortly after 4:30. The tornado went across the Mississippi River into Illinois and narrowly missed a Nuclear Power Plant at Cordova" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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