Columbus Day Storm 1962 Pictures
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Columbus day storm 1962 pictures. See more ideas about columbus storm columbus day. The storm ranks among the most intense to strike the region since at least 1948 likely since the. The columbus day storm of 1962 also known as the big blow and originally as typhoon freda was a pacific northwest windstorm that struck the west coast of canada and the pacific northwest coast of the united states on october 12 1962. It is considered the benchmark of extratropical wind storms.
It is known as the columbus day storm of 1962 and was one of the most disastrous storms to hit oregon since the 1880s. Portland video from october 12 1962. The storm raced up the coast. And blow it did but the storm that came to be known as the columbus day storm of 1962 also brought fierce rains to california oregon and washington and on up to vancouver british columbia.
In eugene and portland planes were flipped over and. The columbus day storm s average value of 6 2 mb 0 18 is in a class by itself with the runners up being the thanksgiving day storm of 1983 with 4 4 mb 0 13 the powerful cyclone of december 12 1995 with 4 5 mb 0 133 and the windstorm of february 24 1958 with 5 2 mb 0 15 for eight of these stations tti eug and pdx missing pressure data during the february 24 1958 storm. On the morning of friday october 12 1962 columbus day a massive storm hit the coast of northern california. The storm had originated several days earlier in the pacific ocean about five hundred miles north of wake island.
The columbus day storm developed out of remanents of a typhoon in the pacific. Bricks flattened this car in portland oregon during the columbus day storm of oct. On october 12th 1962 a huge windstorm swept through the pacific northwest hitting southwestern canada and northern california as well. Wednesday october 12th 2016.
The columbus day storm of 1962 left 580127bec6eafe0011c0bb54 as the state prepares for the coming storm take a look back at oregon s catastrophic windstorm that struck 54 years ago this.