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Severe Weather Sequence Of July 13–16, 2024
Starting on the evening of July 13 and extending through July 16, 2024, an intense sequence of severe weather outbreaks affected much of the Midwestern United States, Midwestern and Northeastern United States, Northeastern United States. This included two significant derechos that each had wind gusts exceeding , as well as multiple tornado outbreaks that produced a combined 94 tornadoes across the affected areas. A ring of fire (meteorology), ring of fire pattern fueled multiple systems that brought heavy rain and a tornado outbreak to northern Illinois, contributing to a partial dam failure in Washington County, Illinois, and multiple events of wind gusts. The sequence as a whole killed five people and injured three more. The sequence began as a line of supercells and evolved into a powerful mesoscale convective system over Montana late on July 13, which raced southeasterly into North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska while producing widespread wind gusts of over and as high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome, New York
Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the " Leatherstocking Country" made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's '' Leatherstocking Tales,'' set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War. Rome is in New York's 21st congressional district. The city developed at an ancient portage site of Native Americans, including the historic Iroquois nations. This portage continued to be strategically important to Europeans, who also used the main 18th and 19th-century waterways, based on the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, that connected New York City and the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes. The original European settlements developed around fortifications erected in the 1750s to defend the waterway, in particular the British Fort Stanwix (1763) built in New York. Following th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
