On this Day in Weather History...27 Aug In 1989, afternoon and evening severe thunderstorms tore through Southeast Nebraska, Northern and Eastern Kansas, as well as Missouri. Baseball sized hail bombarded areas a few miles south of Belleville, Kansas, while tennis ball sized hail pummeled areas just south of Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1883, the colossal eruption of the Krakatau Volcano, located in the Sunda Straits in Western Indonesia, reached a climax. Actually comprised of 3 volcanoes, the Krakatau eruption was so violent that 2 of the volcanoes disappeared when their magma chambers emptied and collapsed while around 1/2 of the 3rd and largest was blown apart. The collapsed volcanoes were responsible for the gigantic tsunamis that killed around 36,000 people. The most horrific of the tsunamis reached a nightmarish 135 feet as it roared into the port of Telok Betong. The average global temperature in 1884 cooled 1.5 degrees Celsius and would be 1.2 degrees below normal for the next 5 years. The sun and moon appeared blue and green throughout the Pacific Basin. Believed to be the loudest noise ever recorded, the eruption was heard nearly 3,000 miles away on the Western Indian Ocean island of Rodrigues. In 1893, the first of three giant hurricanes that year struck South Carolina drowning more than 1000 persons in a tidal surge at Charleston.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:21:08 +0000
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