Low Pressure System Here!

Low pressure breaks records!

(Wednesday 3:53pm correction: According to the NWS, the previous record we’ve indicated was taken at the Cleveland, Ohio crib over the waters of Lake Erie. Because of this, the low pressure system did break the all-time record for the United States. According to NWS: A new record was set for the lowest pressure in a non-tropical storm in the mainland U.S. The massive storm system barreling across the central U.S. had a minimum central pressure of 28.24″ or 956 mb (equivalent to the minimum pressure of a Category 3 hurricane). This breaks the old record of 28.28″ (958 mb), set on Jan. 26, 1978, during the Blizzard of 1978 (aka the Cleveland Superbomb). This is also lower than the March 1993 Superstorm (aka “The Storm of the Century”), or the “Witch of November” storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, or even the Columbus Day Storm of Oct. 1962.
(Tuesday 6:46pm correction: Lowest pressure was 28.05″ of mercury, not 28.28″ previously reported)
What a storm! According to reports from Minnesota and Wisconsin late this afternoon, the low pressure system responsible for today’s 15 tornadoes and 200+ reports of wind damage is one for the record books!
The official National Weather Service barometer at Superior, Wisconsin registered a pressure of 28.38 inches or 961.06 millibars at 11:35am today. This breaks the old Wisconsin state record of 28.45 inches set at Green Bay on April 3, 1982.
If that wasn’t enough, a barometer in Northern Minnesota registered an even lower pressure! According to the National Weather Service forecast office in Duluth, Minnesota, the barometer in Big Fork dipped to 28.21 inches of mercury or 955.2 millibars. While this observation is not officially confirmed yet, it puts this storm in a #2 spot for all-time lowest pressure! The lowest barometric pressure recorded in a non-tropical storm was set during the super-snowstorm of January 26, 1978 where Cleveland, Ohio had a pressure of 28.05″ or 949.9 millibars.
The low pressure from today’s storm system would be typical to a category three hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. -ES
-I found this story to be very interesting because I knew that it was windy here but I had no idea that it was setting records.  I also did not know that there were 15 tornados associated with it.  But what really surprised me was that the low pressure zone was compareable to a category 3 hurricane! I really had no idea that could happen here.  It really shows that the weather in this area is very unpredictable.  Also, there were 200+ incidences from the windy.  This area is not resilent to this kind of hazard because tornadoes and high windy weather does not occur here very often.  The weather here has been unpredictable lately and am wondering what will happen next!