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Startling images show the dust storm that passed from Madera through Fresno to Bakersfield and caused a highway pileup on Monday. Rare 'haboob' dust storm brings Central Valley to a halt Skip to ...
Strong winds in central California kicked up a dust storm on Monday that hindered visibility and sparked a pileup involving 20 cars. The National Weather Service office in Hanford issued a dust ...
High winds and blowing dust were reported throughout central California on November 29, 1991, both in the San Joaquin Valley and the Salinas Valley.A weather station at Naval Air Station Lemoore, the closest one to the crash site which tracked wind and visibility statistics, measured wind gusts up to 21.6 metres per second (48 mph; 78 km/h) and visibility as low as 0.5 kilometers (0.31 mi).
Windows were shattering and store signs were blowing in the wind. It was described as if a twister was unrolled and blew up the valley in a sheet. Farther north in the valley, Fresno was having typical December rain. When the dust reached the rain, it turned into mud. It fell in sheets from the sky. [3] People awoke the next morning to a dark sky.
February 19, 2013 – A winter storm spawned two weak landspouts in the Central Valley that were rated EF0. The first was near Gerber in Tehama County, which damaged a barn. The other lasted about for about a minute in Colusa County. [370] [371] April 4, 2013 – An EF0 hit an empty field near Red Bluff in Tehama County, lasting for about two ...
Jun. 19—A dust storm Wednesday afternoon along Interstate 25 near Algodones and San Felipe Pueblo caused multiple crashes that sent at least 18 people to the hospital, according to the Sandoval ...
On December 15, 2021, the Midwestern U.S. state of Kansas was met with strong and damaging winds caused by the December 2021 Midwest derecho and tornado outbreak, which produced dust storms and multiple wildfires. An estimated 163,000 acres (66,000 ha) burned on the first day wildfires spawned due to dry fuel and strong wind gusts reaching up ...
A dust storm in central Illinois Monday morning, May 1 created "zero visibility" conditions, triggering a fiery 72-vehicle pileup on Interstate 55 that killed seven people and injured more than 35 ...