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Texas Extreme Weather

December 21, 2011
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Hurricane Carla in 1961 at Freeport.

 

 

The thoroughly discredited Katharine Hayhoe seems to think that “weather is becoming more extreme in Texas”. We already know of course that the examples she has given quite simply don’t stand up under scrutiny (see here).

But let’s take see what extreme weather really looks like in Texas. The Texas State Historical Association produces the Texas Almanac, which includes a section on Extreme Weather Records (all sourced from NOAA).

It is worth quoting in full.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Rainfall

Wettest year statewide – 1941 42.62 in.

Driest year statewide – 1917 14.30 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.

 

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.

 

Snowfall

Greatest seasonal – Romero* (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 – Plainview, Feb. 3-4, 1956 24.0 in.

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

*Romero, which was in southwestern Hartley County, no longer exists.

 

Did they teach you history, Katharine?

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2 Comments
  1. Mike Davis permalink
    December 22, 2011 1:03 pm

    You can not know History and be a card carrying member of the Chicken Little Brigade. Katherine has shown her credentials through word and print.
    Her being on the faculty of any school places that school in the ranks of the diploma mills.
    Especially because the historians at the school do not take her to task for rewriting the states history. I understand she is teaching political “Science”, probably because she has not displayed an understanding of real science.

    • Mike Davis permalink
      December 22, 2011 1:06 pm

      Being active in the field of Political “Science” would put her in line with the rest of the activists involved in the IPCC theatrics.

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