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The 2018 Port Orchard tornado was a rare strong tornado that struck the city of Port Orchard, Washington on December 18, 2018. The National Weather Service office in Seattle rated the tornado EF2 following an on-site survey of the storm damage the day after the event. There were no fatalities or major injuries reported.
The Kamchatka meteor was a meteor that exploded in an air burst off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia on 18 December 2018. [3] At around midday, local time, [4] an asteroid roughly 10 meters in diameter entered the atmosphere at a speed of 32.0 km/s (72,000 mph), with a TNT equivalent energy of 173 kilotons, more than ...
2018 – List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. 2019 – The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time .
On December 18, 2018, the revised First Step Act passed the U.S. Senate as S. 756 on a bipartisan 87–12 vote. The House approved the bill with the Senate revisions on December 20, 2018 (358–36). The act was signed by President Donald Trump on December 21, 2018, and became Public Law 115–391. Support and opposition
Astronomers announce the discovery of trans-Neptunian object 2018 VG 18, the most distant object in the Solar System ever observed at a distance of ~ 120 AU. (Space.com) December 18, 2018 ( 2018-12-18 ) (Tuesday)
2018–19. 2019–20. The 2018–19 North American winter was unusually cold within the Northern United States, with frigid temperatures being recorded within the middle of the season. Several notable events occurred, such as a rare snow in the Southeast in December, a strong cold wave and several major winter storms in the Midwest, and upper ...
On December 18, an unusually strong and damaging tornado struck the town of Port Orchard, Washington. The large EF2 tornado heavily damaged many homes and several businesses, and downed hundreds of trees and power lines. Homes had their roofs torn off, and a dry storage facility was destroyed.
Gun law in the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice issues a final regulation banning the use of bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to be fired at a rate similar to that of automatic weapons and became infamous following the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
December 9 – Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 9 December 2018. December 15 – At the Katowice Climate Change Conference, nearly 200 nations agree rules on implementing the 2015 Paris agreement.
December 18 – A rare EF2 tornado hits Port Orchard, Washington and caused $1.81 million (2018 USD) in damage and became the strongest tornado in Washington since 1986. [106] December 31 – A tornado in Indonesia killed one person.