What was the most devastating MICROBURST in the recorded weather history of America? Where and when?
Microbursts: July 15, 1995 – Watertown (city), New York, and surrounding areas, suffered severe wind and water damage in the early AM hours. This storm was bizarre in that it threw large objects several feet while small items were left untouched. August 14, 1996 – Runyan calls this the costliest storm in Arizona history. A severe thunderstorm and its accompanying dry microburst hit the northwest portion of the Phoenix metro area – ripping off tile roofs and causing $160 million in damage. An Arizona record wind gust of 115 miles per hour is recorded at the Deer Valley Airport. A few locations had to go without power for several days. A microburst squall with windspeeds of 80 miles per hour is responsible for capsizing and sinking the Pride of Baltimore in May 1986 in the Caribbean, about 250 miles north of Puerto Rico. The ship took the lives of her captain and three of her other 11 crew members. A particularly violent microburst is a possible alternative explanation to the 1961 sinkin
