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Emergency crews from Greeley, Evans, Windsor and Platte Valley responded to dozens of calls during the night, rescuing people trapped by floodwaters in structures and vehicles during the storm, city spokeswoman Becca Vaclavik wrote in an email.
First responders answered 47 calls for people needing assistance because of the storm and 10 rescues, Vaclavik said.
Photos posted by the Greeley Fire Department on Facebook showed a firefighter wading through chest-deep water into a basement apartment to rescue a trapped resident. City staff reported floodwaters as high as 18 inches on some roads and used snowplows to remove the hail, Vaclavik said.
Vaclavik declined to release additional information about the person who died but confirmed the death and injury were both storm-related.
The Weld County Coroner's Office did not have any cases of "obvious flood-related deaths" as of Wednesday night, said Chief Deputy Coroner Jolene Weiner.
Dramatic video shows lightning strike the city's iconic skyscraper on Wednesday night (29 May) as thunderstorms hit Manhattan.
A lightning bolt also struck the One World Trade Center.
According to its website, the Empire State Building is hit by lightning 25 times per year on average.
Its antenna is designed to absorb the shock of a lightning bolt, so the building itself and the people inside are safe from electrocution.
© Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne / ReutersAn aerial view of Dublin airport is seen from the window of a Ryanair flight in September 2017.
Twelve passengers were injured as turbulence caused some people on board to hit the cabin ceiling on the flight on Sunday.
All passengers were assessed for injury before disembarking the aircraft once the plane landed safely as scheduled shortly before 1pm, with eight passengers subsequently taken to hospital, airport officials said.
One traveller named Cathal said his shorts had ripped apart as he was flung around the cabin during the turbulence.
The tornado only appears as it hits the water, ripping up a dock and sending multiple boats in several different directions. According to the National Weather Service, the tornado was rated an EF0, traveling just a quarter mile with max wind speeds of 80mph.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), two types of water spouts are possible, fair weather water spouts and tornadic waterspout. Tornadic waterspouts have the same characteristics as a normal, land tornado, often moving from land to water or forming over water.
Fair weather waterspouts, unlike their tornadic alternatives, form on the water's surface and build their way upward. These are often formed in light wind conditions and aren't associated with thunderstorms. The video above shows a tornadic water spout.
The National Weather Service Lake Charles spotted the spout from its office around 1 p.m.
Southwest Louisiana was under a severe thunderstorm watch as rough weather rolled through the area Tuesday.
© AFPEvacuation in progress: A woman is being evacuated from a flooded home by coast guard personnel in Lucena, Quezon Province, amid heavy rain brought by tropical storm Ewiniar which battered the Philippines’ most populous island on Sunday, dumping heavy rain and causing floods that forced more than 8,000 people to flee their homes.
Ewiniar brought strong winds and heavy rain in provinces south of the capital, Manila, shutting down airports and seaports while disrupting power supply.
The storm was heading towards the east coast of Japan yesterday, with sustained winds of up to 130kph and gustiness of up to 160kph.
A 14-year-old girl was confirmed dead in southern Misamis Oriental province after a tree fell on a parked vehicle she was boarding. Another student was injured, the national disaster agency said in a report.
An eruption has started in Reykjanes, the seventh in just a few years.
The eruption began in the early afternoon following a series of earthquakes north of Grindavik, a coastal town of 3,800 people that was also evacuated.
The Met Office said lava was shooting about 50 meters (165 feet) into the sky from a fissure about 1 kilometer (1,100 yards) long.
The Blue Lagoon thermal spa was evacuated before the eruption began, national broadcaster RUV said.
Senior police officer Rahul Alwal said rescuers recovered the bodies of those killed from the quarry in Melthum, some 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) from the state capital Aizwal, and were able to pull out two workers alive from the debris.
Alwal said rescue workers are digging through the rubble to try and reach the trapped workers while looking for more survivors
Mizoram houses many stone quarries where raw material is mined for road and building construction. Many companies, however, extract stones without getting the required environmental clearance.
© Oregon State ParksA dead humpback whale washed ashore at Nehalem Bay State Park on Monday, May 27, 2024.
The whale came ashore on the sands of Nehalem Bay State Park, just south of Manzanita, prompting warnings from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
All three agencies issued warnings Monday on posts to social media as well as signs on the beach. The area where the whale washed ashore is also a protected area for endangered snowy plovers, making it especially vulnerable to intrusions.
"We're asking people to please stay away from the carcass so it remains undisturbed," Michael Milstein, a spokesperson for NOAA Fisheries, said Monday. "We intend to do an initial exam today to see what we can learn about possible cause of death."
Comment: The incidents are notable because at least one recent study revealed that turbulence, overall, has been on the rise for the past 40 years, and particularly across the Atlantic. Alongside this, there's a myriad of other phenomena that seems to support the idea that there are significant changes occurring to our atmosphere, in addition to the increase in extreme weather events: Aircraft experiencing 37% increase in turbulence over last 40 years
See also: Severe turbulence on UK-Singapore Boeing flight, 1 dead, 30 injured