11/11/11 Tornado/Cold Snap

Ever wondered how wild and crazy it would be to have a day of sun with 70 and 80 degree temperatures followed by a tornado outbreak followed by a blizzard/record setting cold snap (leaving behind it temperatures in the single digits)? Well there was a day in which all that happened. It was on this day 98 years ago in which such an event took place in the Midwest. A major storm system spawned numerous tornadoes in the town of Janesville, WI (a town in southern Wisconsin). 9 people lost their lives. The tornado strongest of the tornadoes was an F4. This followed a major cold snapped deemed the "The Great Blue Norther". It's funny too because many cities that day recorded record highs (70s/80s in November). But that same night (YES the same night..some 10 hours later) many Midwest cities were dealing with single digit temps. This was the only day in which a record high and record low was broken on the same day for many cites. Temperatures were in the low 70s in Southern Wisconsin. By nightfall temps drop to around 0. Springfield, IL was the most notable. A high of 80 that afternoon before the cold front passed just to dip to 40 degrees two hours later to 13 degrees by midnight. A 67 degree temperature drop in not even 12 hours. Oklahoma City, OK recorded a record high of 83 degrees and a record low of 17 (66 degree temperature drop). This record still holds today. There was one death from the cold in Monroe, Wi in which a man froze to death.

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