May's Weather- 2nd: In Texarkana four tornadoes and high, straight-line winds caused widespread damage.
- 3rd: Severe thunderstorms rumbled across the Southeast killed one person, knocked out power to thousands in Alabama and Georgia and spawned several possible tornadoes with 5 tornadoes confirmed in Alabama. There was widespread damage and one death stemming from severe weather in Mississippi.
- 5th: There were six tornadoes in North Carolina.
- 6th: Severe weather across the South brought heavy rains, a possible tornado in Alabama and damage to about 100 homes throughout the region.
- 5th-8th: A wind-whipped wildfire in the hills above Santa Barbara, California caused about 30,500 people to evacuate. The fire scorched about 8,700 acres, destroying or damaging 80 homes.
- 7th: Again, hwind, rain and hail damaged homes across the South with torrential rains and possible tornadoes hitting central Alabama, flooding roads and briefly trapping a family when a tree fell on their mobile home.
- 8th: A huge storm system moved across the Ozarks in Arkansas packing hail, heavy rain, high winds and tornadoes, leaving thousands without power, a number of homes ravaged and some 25 others with minor damage. In southern Missouri there were a few small tornadoes and damaging straight-line winds of up to 80 mph. Powerful thunderstorms and tornadoes battered parts of the Midwest, leaving four people dead, collapsing a church and knocking out power to thousands. Thunderstorms packing 100-mph winds and spawning funnel clouds rolled through southern Illinois, snapping trees and leaving thousands without power. A tornado killed two people in central Kentucky and flooding sent hundreds scrambling for dry land in the eastern part of the state. There were at least two tornadoes in East Tennessee and flooding in southern West Virginia destroyed more than 300 buildings, prompted evacuations and left behind miles of mud and debris.
- 12th: A cold front dropped the freezing level below 3,000 feet in the Cascade passes of Washington and bringing up to 8" of snow.
- 13th: Violent storms with tornadoes tore through four Midwestern states, killing three people in northern Missouri, damaging hundreds of homes and leaving thousands without power.
- 13th & 14th: Heavy rains swelled rivers and pushed water onto roadways in northern and western Illinois.
- 14th: Two tornadoes touched down early Thursday in the Texarkana area and were EF-0.
- 15th-20th: The Southwest had the warmest temperatures so far this year with some areas going over a 100 degrees.
- 18th-21st: An extratropical system brought heavy rain, up to almost 2 feet, and strong winds, gust over 50 mph, mostly along the East Coast of Florida. In the NE part of the state there was flooding, power outages and beach erosion.
- 19th: The Plains had mid-Summerlike temperatures with Minneapolis, MN reaching 97 degrees.
- 23rd-24th: Heavy rain from the Panhandle of Florida to Louisiana. Some areas getting over 4 inches of rain that caused flooding.
- 28th: The first tropical depression of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season formed off the North Carolina coast, but headed out to sea and disipated.
- 30th: Thunderstorms cracked windows, damaged roofs and blasted power lines in parts of the Midwest with tornado warnings and funnel cloud sightings but no confirmed tornadoes seen in Ohio and Indiana.
- 31st: A violent windstorm caused widespread power outages in the northern half of Vermont from falling trees.
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