Knickerbocker storm

Knickerbocker storm
Category 5 "Extreme" (RSI/NOAA: 18.53)
Weather map for the morning of January 28, 1922
TypeExtratropical cyclone
Blizzard
FormedJanuary 27, 1922
DissipatedJanuary 29, 1922
Fatalities98 fatalities, 133 injured
Areas affectedMid-Atlantic states of the United States

The Knickerbocker storm was a blizzard on January 27–28, 1922 in the upper South and the middle Atlantic United States. The storm took its name from the resulting collapse of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., shortly after 9 p.m. on January 28, which killed 98 people and injured 133.