This date in Weather History

[pojo]

Richard...I used to remember the webpage off hand, but I don't have the page saved in the favorites on my mom's computer...

If you would like weather historical information, just go to http://www.google.com and type in Weather History...tons of links will come up...read til your hearts content.

[pojo]

May 23rd...

1882 - An unusual late season snow blanketed eastern Iowa, with four to six inches reported around Washington.

1953 - The temperature at Hollis OK soared from a morning low of 70 degrees to an afternoon high of 110 degrees to establish a state record for the month of May.

1987 - It was a busy day for thunderstorms in the central U.S. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 65 mph at Shreveport LA and golf ball size hail at Marfa, TX. Hobart, OK, received 3.55 inches of rain in the morning, and another 4.03 inches of rain that evening. Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced 8.5 inches of rain in two hours north of Potter, and 7.5 inches of rain in ninety minutes north of Minatare. Thunderstorms in Colorado produced five inches of hail at Greeley.

1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather across much of the eastern U.S. Golf ball size hail was reported in Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio.

1989 - Severe thunderstorms developing along a cold front resulted in 98 reports of large hail and damaging winds in the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. Golf ball size hail caused a million dollars damage around Buffalo City, WI, baseball size hail was reported at Northfield and Randolph, MN, and thunderstorm winds gusted to 95 mph at Dunkerton, IA.

1989 - Unseasonably hot weather continued in the south central U.S. Pueblo, CO, equalled their May record with a high of 98 degrees, and the high of 106 degrees at Midland, TX, marked a record six straight days of 100 degree heat.

1990 - A cold front crossing the western U.S. produced snow over parts of Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho and Utah, with five inches reported at Austin NV, and four inches at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Strong winds behind the cold front sharply reduced visibilities in blowing dust over central California, and two multi-vehicle accidents resulted in one death and eighteen injuries. In northern Idaho, a cloud-burst washed tons of topsoil, and rocks as large as footballs, into the valley town of Culdesac.

[pojo]

May 24th...

1894 - Six inches of snow blanketed Kentucky. Just four days earlier as much as ten inches of snow had fallen across Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. Six days earlier a violent storm had wrecked nine ships on Lake Michigan.

1930 - A tornado touched down near the town of Pratt, KS, and traveled at the incredibly slow speed of just 5 mph.

1940 - Hail fell near Ada OK to a depth of six to eight inches, and rainfall runoff left drifts of hail up to five feet high.

1987 - Severe thunderstorms in southwest Texas spawned a couple of tornadoes near Silverton, and produced golf ball size hail east of the town of Happy. Thunderstorms also produced large hail and damaging winds in Louisiana and Texas.

1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the southeastern U.S. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 88 mph at Columbia, NC. Baseball size hail was reported near Tifton GA.

1989 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather across the Upper Midwest through the day and night. Thunderstorms spawned 30 tornadoes, and there were 158 reports of large hail and damaging winds. A strong (F-3) tornado caused five million dollars damage at Corning, IA, and a powerful (F-4) tornado caused five million dollars damage at Traer, IA. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 88 mph killed one person and injured five others at Stephensville, WI.

1990 - Severe thunderstorms spawned two dozen tornadoes from Montana to Oklahoma. Four tornadoes carved a 109-mile path across central Kansas. The third of the four tornadoes blew 88 cars of an 125-car train off the track, stacking them three to four cars high in some cases, and the fourth tornado caused 3.9 million dollars damage. The third tornado injured six persons who were trying to escape in vehicles. A woman was "sucked out" of a truck and said that at one time she was "airborne, trying to run but my feet wouldn't touch the ground". She also saw a live deer "flying through the air".

[pojo]

May 25th...

1917 - A tornado ripped through southeast Kansas, traveling 65 mph. The average speed was a record for any tornado.

1955 - Two tornadoes struck the town of Blackwell, OK, within a few minutes time during the late evening. The tornadoes killed 18 persons and injured more than 500 others. Early the next morning a tornado virtually obliterated the small community of Udall KS killing 80 persons and injuring 270 persons. More than half the persons in the community were killed or injured by the tornado.

1987 - Thunderstorms spawned fifteen tornadoes in West Texas. One thunderstorm spawned a powerful tornado near Gruver, TX, along with golf ball size hail and 75 mph winds. A man on a boat on Lake Bistineau in northwest Louisiana was struck and killed by lightning, while the other three persons in the boat were unharmed. The man reportedly stood up in the boat and asked to be struck by lightning.

1988 - Unseasonably cool weather prevailed in the Upper Midwest. Marquette, MI, reported a record low of 26 degrees. Thunderstorms in the north central U.S. produced wind gusts to 62 mph at Idaho Falls, ID, and produced 4 inches of rain in less than four hours in northern Buffalo County.

1989 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a strong cold front produced severe weather from Oklahoma to Ohio through the day and night. Thunderstorms spawned nine tornadoes, and there were 155 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Hail three and a half inches in diameter was reported at Dittmer, MO, and thunderstorm winds gusting to 90 MPH caused twenty million dollars damage at Rockville IN.

1990 - Evening thunderstorms spawned four tornadoes in Kansas and Missouri, and there were three dozen reports of large hail or damaging winds. Thunderstorms produced hail two inches in diameter at Cole Camp, and wind gusts to 72 mph at Rosebud. Heavy thunderstorm rains produced flash flooding in central Missouri. Flood waters swept through Washington State Park southwest of Saint Louis, and nearly one hundred persons had to be rescued from water as much as twenty feet deep. The flood waters swept away a number of vehicles, some were carried as much as four miles away.

[pojo]

May 26th...

1771 - A famous Virginia flood occurred as heavy rains in the mountains brought all rivers in the state to record high levels.

1917 - A tornado touched down near Louisiana MO about noon and remained on the ground for a distance of 293 miles, finally lifting seven hours and twenty minutes later in eastern Jennings County, IN. The twister cut a swath of destruction two and a half miles wide through Mattoon, IL. There were 101 persons killed in the tornado, including 53 at Mattoon, and 38 at Charleston IL. Damage from the storm totalled 2.5 million dollars.

1984 - Thunderstorms during the late evening and early morning hours produced 6 to 13 inches of rain at Tulsa OK in six hours (8.63 inches at the airport). Flooding claimed fourteen lives and caused 90 million dollars property damage. 4600 cars, 743 houses, and 387 apartments were destroyed or severely damage in the flood.

1987 - Thunderstorms in southwest Iowa spawned five tornadoes and produced up to ten inches of rain. Seven inches of rain at Red Oak forced evacuation of nearly 100 persons from the town. Record flooding took place in southwest Iowa the last twelve days of May as up to 17 inches of rain drenched the area. Total damage to crops and property was estimated at 16 million dollars.

1988 - There was "frost on the roses" in the Upper Ohio Valley and the Central Appalachian Mountain Region. Thirteen cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Youngstown OH with a reading of 30 degrees. Evening thunderstorms in North Dakota produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Jamestown.

1989 - Thunderstorms in produced large hail in eastern Oklahoma during the pre-dawn hours, and again during the evening and night. Hail two inches in diameter was reported near Prague, and thunderstorm winds gusted to 70 mph near Kenefic.

1990 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from eastern Colorado to western Arkansas and northeastern Texas. Severe thunderstorms spawned three tornadoes, and there were eighty-eight reports of large hail or damaging winnds. Evening thunderstorms over central Oklahoma spawned strong tornadoes east of Hinton and east of Binger, produced hail three inches in diameter at Minco, and produced wind gusts to 85 mph at Blanchard.

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May 24th...

1930 - A tornado touched down near the town of Pratt, KS, and traveled at the incredibly slow speed of just 5 mph.

Now that's the kind that chasers dream of.

[pojo]

May 27th...

1896 - A massive tornado struck Saint Louis, MO, killing 306 persons and causing thirteen million dollars damage. The tornado path was short, but cut across a densely populated area. It touched down six miles west of Eads Bridge in Saint Louis and widened to a mile as it crossed into East Saint Louis. The tornado was the most destructive of record in the U.S. up until that time. It pierced a five-eighths inch thick iron sheet with a two by four inch pine plank. A brilliant display of lightning accompanied the storm.

1987 - Severe thunderstorms in West Texas produced baseball size hail at Crane, hail up to three and a half inches in diameter at Post, and grapefruit size hail south of Midland. Five days of flooding commenced in Oklahoma. Thunderstorms produced 7 to 9 inches of rain in central Oklahoma. Oklahoma City reported 4.33 inches of rain in six hours. Up to six inches of rain caused flooding in north central Texas.

1988 - Sunny and warm weather prevailed across much of the nation to kick off the Memorial Day weekend. Afternoon thunderstorms in southern Florida caused the mercury at Miami to dip to a record low reading of 69 degrees.

1989 - Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in the southeastern U.S. Ten cities reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the 90s. Lakeland, FL, reported a record high of 99 degrees, and Biloxi, MS, reported a temperature of 90 degrees along with a relative humidity of 75 percent.

1990 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from north central Texas to the Central Gulf Coast Region. Severe thunderstorms spawned four tornadoes, and there were eighty-one reports of large hail or damaging winds. Late afternoon thunderstorms over southeast Louisiana produced high winds which injured twenty-seven persons at an outdoor music concert in Baton Rouge, and high winds which gusted to 78 mph at the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway.

[pojo]

May 28th...

1880 - Brackettville TX hit by a tremendous rainstorm which caused flash flooding, killing 20 people.

1942 - Iowa experiences his latest snowstorm of record. 10 inches fell at LeMars. Afternoon highs did not move out of the lower 30s in the northwestern part of the state.

1947 - Ten inches of snow in Wisconsin at Gay Mills. Trees and power lines were damaged. Cold temperatures followed across the northern Plains with 21 degrees recorded the next morning at Williston ND.

1982 - 2.20 inches of rain fell in just 15 minutes at Leesburg, VA.

1983 - Major snowstorm in Montana. Up to four feet of snow fell in some places. Drifts exceeded ten feet.

1984 - 110 at Sacramento CA set the all-time May record for California.

1987 - Oklahoma soaked by very heavy rains at the end of the month. As much as 13 inches of rain fell across parts of central Oklahoma, resulting in disastrous flash floods that caused $65 million in damage. Several thousand people had to be evacuated from their homes, including some by helicopter.

1989 - Lakeland FL recorded their fifth consecutive record daily high in a row with a reading of 98 degrees as unusually hot weather continued across Florida.

1990 - Flooding in Ohio from days of heavy rain. Southeastern Ohio was plagued by widespread flash flooding. Three people died along with millions of dollars in damage. Numerous roads were underwater or washed out.

1992 - 24 degrees in Chicago sets a daily record low temperature for the date, the fourth consecutive day that Chicago had recorded a record.

1996 - North Central and East Central Kentucky hard hit by tornadoes. One tornado south of Louisville in Bullock KY damaged 600 homes.

[pojo]

May 29th...

1877 - Yuma AZ experienced a major two-day long snowstorm.

1951 - Hail did over $6 million in damage to crops in Kansas.

1953 - A tornado killed two people along a 20-mile path in South Dakota. Nearly every building in the town of Fort Rice SD was damaged.

1982 - Marion, IL devastated by a killer tornado. 10 deaths, 181 injured. 2-inch hail fell at Louisville and Columbus OH had a wind gust to 76 mph.

1982 - The high in Greenville SC only climbed to a chilly 54 degrees, just 28 degrees below normal!

1987 - The Texas Hill Country was deluged with 11 inches of rain. More than $50 million in damage occurred along the Medino, Hondo, Seco, Sabinal and Frio Rivers.

1995 - F4 Tornado at Great Barrington MA. 3 killed and 24 injured.

[pojo]

May 30th...

1879 - Kansas and western Missouri raked by tornadoes. 18 people were killed by a twister at Delphos. Thirty people were killed at Irving by two tornadoes within a few minutes time, which virtually wiped the town off of the map. Reports indicated that the second tornado was two miles wide.

1889 - Great Potomac Flood starts after nearly three inches of rain fall.

1948 - The town of Vanport OR was destroyed when a temporary dike along the Columbia River gave way. Most of the 19,000 residents escaped with just the clothes n their backs.

1948 - Severe hailstorm at Denver. It took twenty railroad cars to replace all the broken glass.

1968 - Severe flooding in New Jersey. 7 people dies in the flooding between the 28th and 30th. Damage totaled $133 million.

1983 - Flooding and mudslides in Nevada caused by melting snow runoff from the Rockies.

1985 - Oklahoma City hits 104 degrees, earliest that they have seen 100 degrees, and setting record high for the date.

1987 - 18 cities across the eastern U.S. recorded record highs on this date, including 97 at Washington and Baltimore and 98 at Newark.

1988 - McDonald Pass MT was buried under 8 inches of snow. Roads were closed in Yellowstone National Park.

1988 - Baseball size hail in Baily and Lamb counties in West Texas.

1989 - Powerful F4 tornado hit New Providence IA, injuring 3 people and causing a million dollars damage.

1990 - Baseball-size hail fell near Marshall.

1998 - The town of Spencer SD was virtually wiped off the map by a half-mile wide F4 tornado that struck on a Saturday night. 92 percent of the homes in the town of 300 were destroyed. 6 people died and 150 were injured. 5 other tornadoes occurred that night in the vicinity of Spencer. It was the first F4 tornado in South Dakota since June 7 1993. No one had died in a tornado in South Dakota since July 14 1970!

[pojo]

May 31st...

1830 - Tornado at Shelbyville TN turned the town into "a heap of ruins and killed 5 people. A book was blown 7 miles by the twister.

1889 - One of the greatest weather related disasters in United States history occurred in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Two days of very heavy rains caused the dam at the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club 14 miles away and 450 feet above Johnstown in Cambria County to burst, sending a wall of water 75 feet high and one half mile wide down the Little Conemaugh River. The entire lake emptied into the valley of the river in just 36 minutes, flowing with the force of Niagara Falls. There were warnings during the day by telegraph, but most people in Johnstown believed that the dam couldn't fail. The huge wave of water and debris smashed into Johnstown at 4:07 p.m., destroying most of the town as well as its neighboring communities. The center of town was wiped away. Survivors reported seeing a 35-foot wall of what appeared to them as debris, including uprooted trees, houses, train cars, animals and people crashing toward them. Much of the debris was trapped behind a stone bridge, which dammed the water into a lake 30 feet deep where much of the town had been. By nightfall, the debris would catch fire, and the conflagration would claim as many as 80 more victims who were trapped in the heap of rubbish and burned alive. The story of the disaster was flashed around the country. The nation poured its heart out to the victims of the Johnstown flood, sending money, relief supplies and volunteers to the stricken area. Clara Barton and her newly formed Red Cross organization was instrumental in restoring the necessities of life to victims of the disaster. More than 2200 people died in the disaster. Bodies were still being uncovered as late as 1906. The 1889 flood led to vastly improved flood control and warning systems, but Johnstown would once again fall victim to a disastrous flood in 1977, when 77 people were killed.

1941 - Burlington, Kansas records 12.59 inches of rain in 24 hours to set the state's record.

1961 - Late freeze did severe damage to crops in New England. The temperature in Burlington VT dropped to 25F.

1982 - Wettest May ever for parts of northern Texas and Oklahoma. Wichita Falls TX established record with 13.22 inches. Oklahoma City recorded 12.07 inches for the month to set a record.

1985 - An outbreak of 41 tornadoes, including 27 in Ohio and Pennsylvania, killed 89 people and did $550 million in damage. It was the worst tornado outbreak in Pennsylvania history. Another concentration of twisters hit parts of Ontario in Canada. There were nine more killer tornadoes that day. The most violent tornado carved a 47-mile path from Ravenna Arsenal OH to Mercer PA, a distance of 41 miles. 18 people were killed and 310 injured by this F5 tornado. An airplane wing was transported 10 miles by the storm from the airport at Hermitage to Mercer.

1991 - May 1991 was the warmest May on record in Washington DC. The city also observed a record 11 days of 90-degree heat.

1998 - During the afternoon of May 31, 1998, lines of severe thunderstorms formed and moved rapidly east across New York and Western New England. Several of these storms became tornadic over Saratoga, Albany, Rensselaer, and Washington counties in New York and Bennington county Vermont. Straight-line wind damage occurred across a wide area. Cloud to ground lightning rates over the region reached 15,000 strokes per hour, rates not observed before over this region. These storms resulted 68 injuries but no fatalities, tens of millions of dollars in damage to homes and businesses, and extensive forest damage.

[Aslkahuna]

Snowstorm in Yuma AZ should be a SANDStorm as Yuma has never recorded more than a Trace of snow since the town was founded and for Yuma to have been cold enough for snow in May would have meant record breaking cold temperatures in all of Arizona at the same time since Yuma is more likely to see temperatures of 100F+ than anything below 40 in May. May, however, is a windy month in Yuma and blowing dust and sand are common there then.

Steve

[pojo]

June 1st...

1812 - Apple trees finally blossom at New Haven CT; the latest that event had occurred since 1794. Snow also whitened the ground at Cleveland OH and Rochester NY.

1903 - Major tornado strikes Gainesville and New Holland, Georgia. 50 people were killed at the Gainesville Cotton Mill, where 250 children were employed on the top floor of the five-story structure. Total fatalities 104. 180 injured.

1969 - For about 3 seconds, a brilliantly white and apparently spherical ball of fire occurred at tree-top height, vividly lighting the area near the Cabin John Bridge exit of the Capital Beltway in Maryland, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It was ball lightning from a thunderstorm.

1980 - A blind man in Falmouth MA had his sight restored when he was struck by lightning. He had been blind and partially deaf since a truck accident in 1971.

1986 - A large amount of hail fell on this date across central and northeast New England. 4-inch hailstones fell at Cumberland County, Maine. 6 inches of hail accumulated at Naples, Maine.

1987 - Two inches of hail destroy 5000 acres or corn and soybeans north of Danville IL. Baseball size hail was reported in Danville.

1988 - 14 inches of rain in Comanche County, Texas.

1990 - An especially violent tornado in West Texas strikes the Bakersville Valley area. 2 killed, 21 injured. Some remarkable damage included 300 feet of blacktop being ripped off of a road and two 90-ton oil tanks being blown 3 miles. They were then blown 600 feet up the side of a mountain. $35 million in damage resulted from the tornado.

1998 - Wildfires burn out of control in Florida as the state baked in an extended dry period. Over 1300 fires burned in every county in the state but one.

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June 2nd...

1889 - Major flooding on the Potomac in Washington. A span of the Long Bridge was washed away. Streets near the river flooded. The crest was not equaled again until 1936.

1917 - Tribune KS drops to 30 degrees to establish the state record low temperature for June.

1949 - Tornado describes a circle one mile in radius around the town of Alfalfa OK.

1970 - 5.01 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Buffalo NY to establish an all-time record for the location.

1989 - 120 mph wind gusts at Fitchburg MA produce $5 million in damage.

1990 - Tornado outbreak in Midwest, Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. It was the largest tornado outbreak since the superoutbreak in 1974. 66 tornadoes observed. 7 of the tornadoes were rated F4 on the Fujita scale. Indiana had 37 of the twisters with 8 fatalities.

1994 - A tsunami struck East Java with a maximum wave height of 14 meters. 238 people were killed. More than 4000 people lost their lives due to tsunamis worldwide in the 1990s.

1998 - The strongest tornado in modern Maryland history skipped for 15 miles through the mountainous countryside near Frostburg, destroying at least 30 buildings and damaging 100 others. The F4 storm narrowly missed the city's downtown business district about 945 pm. No deaths or serious injuries were reported in Frostburg, due to ample warnings on television and radio and through emergency sirens. Two people were killed by a tornado in rural northeastern Pennsylvania.

[pojo]

June 3rd...

1860 - The Great Camanche Tornado or the Great Tornado of the Northwest was actually a family of twisters that moved across Iowa and Illinois. It was one of the most damaging tornado families ever to strike the US and resulted in more farm fatalities than any other tornado except for the TriState tornado. The town of Camanche Iowa on the Mississippi River was completely destroyed. A total of 175 people were killed and 329 were injured. Total damage $945,000.

1905 - Seattle WA records its heaviest ever June 24 hour rainfall with 1.42 inches.

1921 - Cloudburst near Pike Peak CO resulted in 120 fatalities. The Arkansas River flooded at Pueblo CO. A 25-foot wall of water killed 70 people. There were reliable reports of 14 inches of rain at Boggs Flat, 10 miles southwest of Pueblo, where a hard surface road through nearly level country was washed out to a depth of 7 feet.

1959 - 18 inches of hail accumulates at Selden KS. Total damage from the hail $500,000. Crops were completely destroyed. Hail fell for 85 minutes. Temperature dropped from 80 degrees prior to the storm to 38 degrees at the height of the storm.

1980 - The Grand Island, NE area is plagued by a slow moving supercell thunderstorm that produced 7 tornadoes in three hours. One of the twisters was an F4 while 3 others were F3. 5 fatalities and 193 injuries resulted from the storm. Damage exceeded $300 million.

1987 - Five to six inch rains across South Texas cap a six-day flooding event that caused over $500 million in damage.

1988 - 14 cities record high temperatures for the date across the Southern Plains.

1989 - 169 reports of large hail and damaging winds across the Southern Plains. Softball size hail reported at Monahans, Childress and Groesbeck TX.

1995 - Just three days into the 1995 Atlantic Hurricane Season, Allison formed in the Caribbean and moved northward toward the Florida coast, making landfall near Alligator Point early on June 5th. This was only the beginning. The 1995 Atlantic Hurricane Season will go down in the record books as the second busiest hurricane season since 1871. There were a total of 19 named storms, 11 of which reached hurricane strength. Only in 1933, with 21 known storms, did the number of tropical cyclones surpass 1995's count.

1997 - A chilly day in the East... high temperature at Philadelphia International Airport was only 59 degrees, tying a record-low maximum for the date set back in 1881. The mercury in Middletown, Pa. only rose to 58 degrees, breaking the record-low maximum for the date of 59 set back in 1915. The nations Capitol, Washington D.C. only reached 58 degrees, breaking the old record-low maximum of 59 set back in 1915. In Williamsport, Pa., the high temperature of 52 tied the old record-low maximum, which was set in back in 1945. Central Park in New York City only reached 61 degrees.

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1889 - A great flood on the Potomac River in Washington D.C. took out a span of Long Bridge, and flooded streets near the river. The flood stage reached was not again equalled until 1936. (David Ludlum)

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1987 - Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes in West Texas and six tornadoes in Illinois. Thunderstorms in Illinois produced wind gusts to 70 mph at McComb and Mattoon. Thunderstorms in southern Texas produced 5.5 inches of rain south of Seguin, and up to eight inches of rain in Washington County. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

[pojo]

June 4th...

1825 - East Coast - Early season hurricane from Cuba to New England. Great shipping losses on the coast. Much damage at Charleston on the 3rd and New York Harbor on the 4th.

1885 - Pittsburgh, PA & Cleveland, OH - Heavy rains (about 10 inches) caused serious floods.

1982 - Major 4 day storm in New England brings 14 inches of rainfall to southern Connecticut. 23 dams were breached and 2 failed. $276 million in damage resulted from the flooding.

1985 - Southeast - The heat wave continues. Lakeland, FL sets an all-time record high of 102 degrees.

1987 - Early morning thunderstorms in south Texas produced 6.5 inches of rain at Hockheim, and five inches at Hallettsville, in just a few hours. Afternoon thunderstorms in Virginia deluged northern Halifax County with 5.5 inches of rain in two hours. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Dusty WA, and wind gusts to 88 mph at Swanquarter NC.

1988 - A dozen cities in the eastern U.S. reported record low temp- eratures for the date, including Atlantic City NJ with a reading of 40 degrees. Fifteen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Glasgow MT and Havre MT with readings of 102 degrees.

1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Southern Plains Region and the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Southern Atlantic Coast Region during the day and into the night. Just four tornadoes were reported, but there were 87 reports of large hail and damaging winds.

1998 - The temperature at Williston ND dropped to 26 degrees to establish a monthly record for June. The mercury dropped to 24 in Tower MN as winter made one last curtain call across the northern Plains. 2-3 inches of snow fell in South Dakota and 7 inches fell in Wyoming.

[pojo]

June 5th...

1859 - Frost reported from Iowa to New England. 2 inches of snow fell in Ohio. Temperatures plummeted to the middle 20s in Ohio.

1908 - 3.67 inches of rain fell at Helena MT, establishing their all time 24 hour rainfall record.

1916 - Warren AR devastated by a tornado that killed 83 people. 125 people lost their lives across Missouri and Arkansas in the outbreak.

1917 - Giant disk-shaped hailstones 6 to 10 inches in diameter and two to three inches thick? The hailstones came from a large severe thunderstorm that also produced a tornado.

1976 - The Teton Dam in Idaho collapsed, killing 11 people.

1987 - Unseasonable thunderstorms on the 5th and 6th produced flash flooding, power outages, and many lightning induced fires in Los Angeles County of southern California, particularly in the Antelope Valley. Over half a million people were without power, some until the morning of the 8th.

1987 - Major flooding in south Texas. Guadelupe River 18 feet above flood stage at Ceuro TX.

1987 - 34 degrees this morning at International Falls MN. Record highs of 94 degrees reported in the afternoon at Williston ND and Glasgow MT.

1988 - Unseasonably cold in the East. 40 degrees at Asheville NC established a record for the date. 19 other cities also recorded record lows, while 15 cities in the northern part of the country established record highs for the date, including Glasgow MT, where their reading of 108 degrees also established an all-time record for June.

1993 - An unusually strong late spring storm moved into California. Los Angeles reported .76 inches of rain to establish a new rainfall record for the date. Mammoth Mountain Ski Area received over 12 inches of snow. 3.24 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Lake Gregory.

1995 - Hurricane Allison makes landfall on Florida coast with winds of 75 mph. Hardest hit was Dixie County, but damage was relatively minor.

1998 - Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the city of Hattiesburg MS blocking many of the roads and highways. Winds heavily damaged twenty-five homes and twenty-five mobile homes. Forty-five people were injured and two people were killed. The two fatalities were both in automobiles which ran into falling trees or the trees fell on them.

[pojo]

June 6th...

1816 - 92 at Salem MA. But the temperature would plunge to 49 degrees 24 hours later. This would mark the beginning of the "Year without a summer."

1869 - Snail shells fall from the sky at Chester, Pennsylvania during a rain shower.

1894 - Half of the business district of Portland OR destroyed by a major flood on the Williamette River.

1916 - Tornado outbreak in Arkansas and Mississippi; 83 of 125 killed at Warren, Arkansas.

1925 - Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, PA both reached 100 degrees -- earliest on record.

1937 - Dome Lake in the Bighorn Mountains, MT, buried under 32 inches of snow.

1966 - Hurricane Alma made landfall over the eastern Florida panhandle becoming the earliest hurricane to make landfall on the US Mainland.

1975 - Rare anticyclonic tornado observed near Alva OK.

1977 - Severe thunderstorms strike the Norfolk VA area. A 42-foot fishing boat capsized near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. 13 of the 27 person aboard were drowned.

1984 - An unseasonable storm buried portions of the Colorado Rockies between the 5th and the 8th with as much as 2 feet of snow (18 inches in 24 hours ending on the 7th at Climax; their storm total was 22.3 inches). June storm records set included 3 inches at Eagle, 15.5 inches at Aspen, and 16 inches at Breckenridge.

1987 - Thunderstorms in southern California produced one inch hail at Mount Pinos, and marble size hail at Palmdale. Thunderstorms in southeastern Arizona produced heavy rain leaving some washes under four feet of water. Six cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the upper 90s.

1988 - Seventeen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Williston ND with a reading of 104 degrees. Thunderstorms in Florida produced wind gusts to 65 mph which damaged two mobile homes northwest of Melbourne injuring six people.

1990 - F3 tornado destroys 80 percent of the central business district of Limon CO. 228 homes and trailers were destroyed or damaged. 90 percent of the homes in Limon sustained damage from hail that measured 2.5 inches in diameter.

1992 - 6-8 inches of rain in areas of West Virginia resulted in mudslides.

1997 - Record low maximum temperatures for the date included 65 in Charleston SC where over 7 inches of rain fell in day-long thunderstorms. The high in Raleigh NC was only 59, tying the record all-time coldest June maximum temperature for that location. Atlanta GA tied their record low for the date with 53 degrees and Tulsa OK broke the record for the date with a cold morning low of 53 degrees.