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Umbrella

Waterspout strikes home on Long Beach Island


6abc.com
Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:04 UTC
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Brant Beach
Tuesday's severe storm caused quite a scare for people at the Jersey Shore.

An Action News viewer sent us video from from Brant Beach on Long Beach Island.

The storm appears to whip up a waterspout, sending it across the bay and right into his home.

It also tossed around debris and boats docked nearby.


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Cloud Lightning

Thunderstorms lash U.S. Mid-Atlantic region, cutting off power to thousands

Ian Simpson
Reuters
Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:38 UTC
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© Reuters/Yuri Gripas
A lightening strikes the sky above the Jefferson Memorial after a severe storm in Washington June 23, 2015
Powerful thunderstorms packing heavy rain and high winds lashed the U.S. Middle Atlantic region late on Tuesday, killing one person, snarling travel and cutting off power to hundreds of thousands of customers.

The fast-moving band of storms stretching from Virginia to southern New Jersey dumped up to one inch (2.5 cm) of rain in less than an hour in some places, said Jim Hayes, a National Weather Service meteorologist in College Park, Maryland.

"The storms were intense but they were moving pretty quickly," he said.

Police in Montgomery County, Maryland said a 79-year-old man died after his pickup truck hit a tree that had fallen across the roadway, about 30 miles (48 km) north of Washington D.C.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills three coal workers in Sunamganj, Bangladesh


bdnews24.com
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:39 UTC
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Three workers have been killed in a lightning strike that left as many others injured at Tahirpur Upazila in Sunamganj.

The incident happened near Jadukata River at the Upazila's Uttar Borodol Union on Thursday evening.

The deceased are Abdur Razzak, 26, Jamal Uddin, 32, and Al Amin, 27.

The injured could not be immediately identified.

Uttor Borodol Union's Chairman Jamal Uddin said the workers were collecting coal from the Jadukata River when the lightning struck.

They were killed on the spot.
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Cloud Precipitation

Gigantic, near record-size hailstones pummel northern Maryland

Jeff Halverson and Jason Samenow
Washington Post
Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:09 UTC
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© Nicka PohlMassive hailstone that fell in Timonium, Md. June 23, 2015
As a violent thunderstorm tore through northern Maryland Tuesday evening, it unloaded massive hail - large enough to rank among the biggest in Maryland state weather records.

Nicka Pohl shared with Capital Weather Gang the photo of a softball-size, spiked hailstone measuring approximately 4 inches in diameter, which fell near Timonium. Hail larger than golf balls fell throughout the Hunt Valley, Cockeysville, and Timonium areas in northern Baltimore County.

The hail dented cars all over the area and smashed back windows, Pohl said.

Christopher Strong, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service forecast office serving Washington and Baltimore area, said Maryland records show there have been only two instances of hail larger than the 4-inch stone Pohl collected. Hail measuring 4.5 inches in diameter was observed in LaPlata in 2002 when a large, violent F4 tornado swept through the area. And a stone measuring 4.5 inches was reported in Baltimore in 1970.

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Cloud Precipitation

Collapse of 123 trees due to showers in Mumbai is unnatural, say environmentalists

Tanvi Deshpande
MiD DAY
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:37 UTC
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© Rane AshishA 35-year-old tree was uprooted at Dadar during Friday’s downpour.
Saturday's rainfall caused the felling of 123 trees (including branches) across the city, causing experts and activists to worry about the unnaturally high numbers. Experts have condemned haphazard concretisation, trenching and hacking of branches of trees, activities which lead to such a high number of tree falls every monsoon.

The city experienced rainfall on Saturday as well, which was 10 per cent of the season's average. Apart from reports of parts of building slabs and plasters collapsing and short circuits, the city had hundreds of complaints of trees or their branches falling.

The Western suburbs recorded the highest number of tree or branches falling (71) (71), followed by the island city (36) and eastern suburbs (23). City experts have termed this high number within last 24 hours as unnatural, since not all the trees, which had fallen, were old or aging. Also, they are questioning how rain trees or even banyan trees, which are not known to fall in the monsoon, have been falling over the past five years, showing a changing trend.
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Umbrella

3 waterspouts seen offshore south of Phuket, Thailand


The Phuket News
Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:32 UTC
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Racha Yai Island
Three waterspouts, technically mini-tornadoes on water, threatened make landfall at Racha Yai island, about 25km south of Phuket, today (June 23).

Marcus Åkesson, PADI Instructor at Sea Fun Divers, was leading a dive tour at Racha Yai when he spotted the vortexes at about 11am.

Despite never witnessing firsthand what damage a waterspout can inflict, Mr Åkesson told The Phuket News that he did not feel that he was in danger.

"I was not worried at all. It felt so distant and slow moving," he said. "When it came closer, it started dissolving.

"I didn't see any damage from it. Never have. Today was the first time I have ever seen this weather phenomena."

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Bizarro Earth

U.S. Mid-West and Great Lakes region battered by thunderstorms, tornadoes


RT
Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:10 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Jon DurrLighting strikes outside of Joliet, Illinois from a tornadic supercell that produced a tornado that struck Coral City on June 22, 2015 in Joliet, Illinois
The US Mid-West and Great Lakes region have been battered by severe storms. A tornado hit Coal City, some 60 miles (97km) southwest of Chicago, injuring seven people, while five people had to be rescued in the state of Michigan.

At least seven states were hit in all by the thunderstorms, with numerous houses damaged and trees uprooted. Videos captured of the hurricane-like conditions showed an almost apocalyptic scenario, with debris littering the roads.

One of the worst-affected areas was Coal City, southeast of Chicago. A tornado affected the area, while there were at least two injuries according to local authorities, with one person taken to hospital.
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Cloud Precipitation

Huge hailstones pound Nisland, South Dakota

Colleen Brunner
Rapid City Journal
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:08 UTC
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An orange is dwarfed by the size of this hailstone that hammered the Jerry and Leanne Wells home east of Nisland on Highway 212.
High winds, massive hail and rain pulverized area in and around Nisland Friday night.

It began with tornado and thunderstorm warnings in Belle Fourche and as it moved east in Butte County, the storm intensified.

The people of the Nisland, Newell and Vale areas saw the evidence of that as many of them hunkered down waiting out the rain, hail and high winds that ripped through the area late in the afternoon and evening hours.

"Glass and debris is everywhere," LeAnne Clark, Nisland Town Finance Officer, said.

Every window on the north and west sides of the parsonage were lost in the home where she and her husband Pastor Doug Clark of the Nisland Independent Community Church live.
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Umbrella

Waterspout seen near Kalbarri, Australia

Sarah Taillier
abc.net.au
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:21 UTC
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© Petro Van Niekerk The waterspout touched down at around 3pm yesterday.
A tornado-like water spout that formed off the coast of a Western Australian town has made landfall, according to a local fisherman.

The spout startled seaside residents in Kalbarri, about 580km north of Perth, when it appeared on Sunday afternoon.

Local fisherman Dean Robins was in his driveway when he spotted the funnel-like weather feature.

"I've seen this unusual cloud that was sort of funnelling down," he said.

"We sort of weren't too sure whether to run inside or not because it was ... heading our way, but it sort of crossed a little way to the north of us."

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills woman near Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Phil Helsel
nbcnews.com
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 14:33 UTC
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A woman in Iowa died after she was struck by lightning Saturday as storms rolled through the area, authorities said.

Rebecca McCarthy, 42, of Hiawatha, was hit by lightning at around 5:30 p.m. as she walked between camp sites at Pleasant Creek State Recreation Area, northwest of Cedar Rapids in the eastern part of the state, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said.

McCarthy was rushed to a hospital where she was pronounced dead, the Iowa DNR said. The fatal lightning strike occurred as the possibility of strong storms were forecast for eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois Saturday.

In Linn County, where the recreation area is located, there were reports of quarter-sized hail that fell so heavy in parts that it resembled snow, according to the National Weather Service.
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