Subj : Todays Weather History
To : ALL
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jun 24 2016 12:02 am
TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid
Today is Friday June 24, 2016.
This is the 176th day of the year, there are 190 days left.
On this day...
Weather data after 1990 is PARTIAL. For more current
weather history, go to the National Climate Data Center
website at www.ncdc.noaa.gov
In 1816 The cold weather of early June finally gave way to
several days of 90 degree heat in Massachusetts,
including a reading of 99 degrees at Salem.
In 1924 Six men at a rock quarry south of Winston-Salem NC sought
shelter from a thunderstorm. The structure chosen
contained a quantity of dynamite. Lightning struck a
near-by tree causing the dynamite to explode. The men
were killed instantly.
In 1951 Twelve inches of hail broke windows and roofs, and dented
automobiles, causing more than fourteen million dollars
damage. The storm plowed 200 miles from Kingmand County
KS into Missouri, with the Wichita area hardest hit. It
was the most disastrous hailstorm of record for the state
of Kansas.
In 1952 Thunderstorms produced a swath of hail 60 miles long and
3.5 miles wide through parts of Hand, Beadle, Kingsbury,
Miner and Jerauld counties in South Dakota. Poultry and
livestock were killed, and many persons were injured.
Hail ten inches in circumference was reported at Huron SD.
In 1987 Thunderstorms spawned six tornadoes in eastern Colorado.
Baseball size hail was reported near Yoder CO, and
thunderstorm winds gusting to 92 mph derailed a train
near Pratt KS. The town of Gould OK was soaked with
nearly an inch and a half of rain in just ten minutes.
In 1988 Forty-three cities reported record high temperatures for
the date. Valentine NE reported an all-time record high
of 110 degrees, and highs of 102 at Casper WY, 103 at
Reno NV, and 106 at Winnemucca NV were records for the
month of June. Highs of 98 at Logan UT and 109 at Rapid
City SD equalled June records. Lightning killed twenty-
one cows near Conway SC.
In 1989 Thunderstorms developing along a warm front produced
severe weather from Colorado and New Mexico to Kansas and
Nebraska. Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes, and
produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Wood River NE, and hail
three inches in diameter at Wheeler KS.
In 2001 A freak hailstorm struck Denver, Colorado...with many
reports of golfball sized hail. Many aircraft at the
Denver International Airport suffered severe damage.
In 2003 Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes raked the upper
Midwest, with widespread damage. Buffalo, Lake, MN,
about 70 miles west of Minneapolis, MN, was the hardest
hit...with a church, a grain elevator, and several
homes being damaged or destroyed. A 40 foot pine tree,
with its roots still attached, was seen 'pirouetting
in the sky, 200 feet in the air' from a tornado.
Damage also occured in Manchester, South Dakota.
In 2010 Hurricane Celia becomes a Category 5 Hurricane in the
Eastern Pacific with 160 mph winds. This ties her with
the strongest Eastern Pacific Hurricane on record in
June...with Hurricane Ava of 1973.
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