BxEngine Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Anyone have any information on a storm on this date? I was doing research for something else and came upon a description of fairly heavy snow and cold temps. 2 FDNY members and 4 fire patrol members died in a collapse of a 6 story paper storage building on Wooster Street in Lower Manhattan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Anyone have any information on a storm on this date? I was doing research for something else and came upon a description of fairly heavy snow and cold temps. 2 FDNY members and 4 fire patrol members died in a collapse of a 6 story paper storage building on Wooster Street in Lower Manhattan. was it March 14th 1958?...There was a fire in Manhattan and there was wet snow falling at the time...4" of slop accumulated in the city... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsutherland1 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 The February 14-17, 1958 storm was Category 4 on the NESIS Scale: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/rsi/nesis http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/snow/nesis/19580214-19580217-6.25.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxEngine Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 Thanks guys....I am on my phone so I couldnt get to any of my bookmarks, lol. Now Im curious as to whether the weather played a factor in the fire/collapse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I could be wrong about the 3/14 date...It could have been 3/19...It probably isn't the one...February 14, 1958 was a cold dry day...Snow started Saturday evening 2/15... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmagan Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 The best I can tell is the storm happened on February 12th. 00Z February 13th METAR and SYNOP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Coop snowfall reports during that timeframe: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 The Wooster St collapse appears to have been a couple of days before the February 1958 blizzard. http://www.flickr.com/photos/40045986@N00/3036614295/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalcollectionsum/4055117677/ http://www.wgal.com/video/17937119/detail.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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