Subj : Todays Weather History
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Aug 17 2017 12:08 am
TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid
Today is Thursday August 17, 2017.
This is the 229th day of the year, there are 136 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 1915 A hurricane hit Galveston TX with wind gusts to 120 mph
and a twelve foot storm surge. The storm claimed
275 lives, 42 on Glaveston Island, with most deaths due
to drowning. Of 250 homes built outside the seawall
(built after the catastrophic hurricane of 1900),
just ten percent were left standing.
In 1969 Camille, the second worst hurricane in U.S. history,
smashed into the Mississippi coast. Winds gusted to 172
mph at Main Pass Block LA, and to 190 mph near Bay Saint
Louis MS. The hurricane claimed 256 lives, and caused
1.3 billion dollars damage. Several ocean going ships
were carried over seven miles inland by the hurricane.
The hurricane produced winds to 200 mph, and a storm
surge of 24.6 feet. Complete destruction occurred in
some coastal areas near the eye of the hurricane.
In 1987 Evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in the
Northern and Central Plains Region. One thunderstorm
spawned a tornado near Fairbury NE, along with baseball
size hail and wind gusts to 100 mph, causing severe crop
damage west of town. Ten cities in the eastern U.S.
reported record high temperatures for the date. Syracuse
NY hit 97 degrees for the first time in twenty-two years.
In 1988 Fifty-five cities, from the Middle Mississippi Valley to
the Middle Atlantic Coast Region, reported record high
temperatures for the date. Beckley WV reported an all-
time record high of 96 degrees, and Baltimore MD hit 104
degrees, marking their thirteenth day of the year with
100 degree heat. Chicago IL equalled a record with 46
days of 90 degree weather for the year. Thunderstorms
produced severe weather from Wisconsin to New Jersey.
Thunderstorms in New Jersey produced high winds which
gusted to 92 mph at Wrightstown, and blew down a circus
tent at Lavallette injuring fourteen persons.
In 1989 Morning thunderstorms produced three to six inch rains in
Oklahoma, and the Arkalatex area of Arkansas, Texas and
Louisiana. Tom OK was soaked with 5.98 inches of rain,
and Foreman AR received 5.55 inches. Evening
thunderstorms produced high winds in the Wasatch Front of
northern Utah. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 66 mph at
Salt Lake City, and flash flooding caused up to two
million dollars damage to a marina on Lake Powell.
In 2001 A strong tornado heavily damaged the town of Jackson,
Nebraska.
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