Subj : Today's Weather History
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Apr 26 2017 12:10 am
TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid
Today is Wednesday April 26, 2017.
This is the 116th day of the year, there are 249 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 1834 Killer frosts were reported in the Deep South. The frost was
quite severe around Huntsville AL, and highlighted a
backward spring in the South that year.
In 1978 An unusually strong occluded front swept out of the Gulf of
Alaska and produced the first April thunderstorm of record
at Fairbanks. Pea size hail fell northeast of Fairbanks
from thunderstorms whose tops were less than 8000 feet.
In 1984 Severe thunderstorms associated with an intense cyclone
spawned a total of forty-seven tornadoes in two days from
Louisiana to Upper Michigan. The tornadoes killed 16
persons, and injured 259 others.
In 1987 Twenty-two cities in the central and western U.S. reported
new record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon
high of 83 degrees at Astoria OR smashed their previous
record by 13 degrees. Sacramento CA hit 94 degrees.
In 1988 While Rochester MN was blanketed with 13.7 inches of snow,
establishing a single storm record for the month of April,
Minneapolis MN, just 90 miles away, got only rain.
In 1989 Thirty-three cities in the central and southeastern U.S.
reported record high temperatures for the date. Afternoon
highs of 91 degrees at Evansville IN, and Nashville TN
equalled April records. Thunderstorms produced severe
weather from Iowa to Kentucky, with more than 90 reports
of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds
gusted to 90 mph at Berwick IA.
In 1990 Twenty-nine cities from the Carolinas to the Great Lakes
Region and western New England reported record high
temperatures for the date, as readings soared into the
80s and lower 90s. Record high temperatures included 95
degrees at Baltimore MD and 92 degrees at Allentown PA.
The record high of 89 degrees at Alpena MI was the third
out of six straight record highs for that location, and
smashed their previous record for the date by ten degrees.
In 1991 An outbreak of 55 tornadoes devastated parts of Oklahoma,
Kansas, and Nebraska, killing 21 people. The Golden Spur
Trailer Park in Andover, KS was hard hit by an F5 tornado.
