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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 ...
The San Joaquin Valley, in which Coalinga is located, is a major agricultural region of California.The region had historically suffered from dust storms; the Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977 occurred in a different part of the valley, and a series of smaller dust storms killed seven people in crashes on the same section of Interstate 5 in 1978. [1]
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.
Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977: December 19-21, 1977 Southern San Joaquin Valley, California: 1983 Melbourne dust storm: February 8, 1983 Victoria, Australia: 1991 Interstate 5 dust storm: November 29, 1991 San Joaquin Valley, California: 2009 Australian dust storm: September 23, 2009 South Australia to inland New South Wales, Australia
Damage caused by the 1983 Los Angeles tornado This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The U.S. state of California experiences several tornadoes every year, with at least 489 twisters [nb 1] recorded since 1891. Among these are four fire whirls, a type of tornado that develops ...
A large dust storm moved over El Centro, California, on Thursday, October 6, as the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a warning for blowing dust and low visibility in the area.Video recorded ...
The drought caused $60 billion in damage ($155 billion 2025 USD) in United States dollars, adjusting for inflation. The drought occasioned some of the worst blowing-dust events since 1977 or the 1930s in many locations in the Midwestern United States, including a protracted dust storm, which closed schools in South Dakota in late February 1988 ...