This date in Weather History

[Aslkahuna]

where those thunderstorms in SE AZ in 1987 were at as they don't show im my rainfall record for that year.

Steve

[pojo]

June 7th...

1816 - 20 inches of snow and sleet at Danville VT. Snow flurries reported as far south as Boston. Waltham MA recorded a low temperature of 33 degrees and New Haven CT recorded 35 degrees.

1972 - Richmond VA records its worst flood of record from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes. The water level at the city locks reached 36.5 feet, considerably higher than the 1771 level of 30 feet.

1984 - A major outbreak of tornadoes across the Upper Midwest. 21 of them occurred in Iowa. The small town of Wright Iowa was nearly wiped out by an F4 tornado that killed 2. Barneveld, Wisconsin was hard hit shortly before midnight by an F5 tornado. 9 people were killed and 197 injured. 90 percent of the town was damaged or destroyed.

1989 - A Suriname Airways DC-8 crashed into the jungle during its third attempt to land in a thick fog which shrouded the Paramaribo, Suriname, airport. Fifteen of the 183 on board the aircraft survived.

1998 - The forecast for tonight: Sunny and warm. That's right. At least in Barrow AK on the Arctic Ocean when the late spring and early summer brings all night sunshine. On this date, the high temperature rose to a record 51 degrees with a gusty land breeze.

[pojo]

June 8th...

1816 - Danville, VT - Famous June snow; snow/sleet drifted to 20 inches, highlands white all day, severe frost. Waltham had a low of 33 degrees. The mercury dropped to 35 at New Haven.

1885 - A killing frost at Fargo, North Dakota; none has occurred since.

1951 - Tornadoes were caught on film for the first time ever in the United States near Corn, Oklahoma.

1953 - The worst tornado in Michigan's history struck Flint. It was a 1/2 mile wide and killed 116 people. It was rated an F5 on the Fujita scale. This was the last single tornado in the United States to kill over 100 people. The death toll makes it is the worst tornado in Michigan history. 200 homes were destroyed on Coldwater Road. Entire families perished.

1966 - Legend said that Burnett's Mound would always protect the city of Topeka, Kansas from tornadoes. On this date in 1966, that legend was debunked when an F5 tornado destroyed a large part of Topeka. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed. 820 homes were destroyed. 16 people were killed. The twister passed directly over Burnett's Mound. It was the first tornado to produce 100 million in damage.

1974 - Tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and Kansas. 26 twisters were reported, 22 in Oklahoma and 4 in Kansas. Drumright, OK was hit by an F4 tornado that killed 12 people. The NWS office at Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma City was damaged by the storm. Two F3 tornadoes ravaged the city of Tulsa. 10 inches of rain also fell.

1977 - A hailstorm up to 7 miles wide in southeastern Wisconsin covered the ground for 80 miles. Snowplows needed to clear the roads.

1982 - Kansas and Missouri - Violent early morning thunderstorms produce wind gusts to 80 mph which caused considerable structural damage and power outages in Topeka and Kansas City, Missouri. Worst storm in many years.

1983 - Record lows of 28 in Sault St. Marie, Michigan and 30 in Alpena, Michigan.

1989 - A swarm of 17 tornadoes struck southeastern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast during the early morning hours. Two of the tornadoes were rated as F2s. 60 people were injured in one of the tornadoes. 2 people were killed. One injured ten people at Orange Beach AL. Winds gusted to 90 mph at Mobile AL where three people were killed. 60 people were injured at Baton Rouge LA by an F2 tornado.

1995 - At Crane, Texas, 4-inch diameter hail fell for 10 minutes (quite a bombardment).

1995 - On the last day of Project Vortex, an extensive tornado research project, the chase team observed an incredible outbreak of 21 tornadoes across the north Texas Panhandle. Five of the twisters were rated as F4s. An F4 twister that killed 7 people hard hit the town of Pampa. The tornado observed near Allison TX was reported to be one of the most menacing ever witnessed. Project Vortex included 20 vehicles, a P3 aircraft and a state-of-the-art truck-mounted Doppler radar.

[pojo]

June 9th...

1953 - New England's deadliest tornado disaster occurs at Worcester, Massachusetts. Northern part of city hardest hit. 90 people die and 1,300 are injured along 46-mile path. Winds are estimated to have reached 250 mph at Holden, Mass. 4000 buildings destroyed or damaged. 10,000 left homeless. At the time it was the most costly tornado in U.S. history with over $53 million in damage. Rated at F4, the tornado was spawned from a classic supercell thunderstorm. Debris from the tornado fell in Boston.

1966 - Hurricane Alma made landfall over the eastern Florida Panhandle to become the earliest landfalling U.S. hurricane on record.

1972 - 10 to 15 inches of rain fell over an area of just 60 square miles of the Black Hills in and around Rapid City, South Dakota, causing the Canyon Lake dam to give way at 10:45 p.m., sending a flood of rushing water down already swollen Rapid Creek. Even though heroic evacuation orders from the city's mayor came at 10:40 p.m., many in the town had just precious minutes to flee to safety as the crest of the flood struck around 11 p.m. Much of the town lay in the flood plain and the devastation was incredible. Fires were ignited from severed gas mains. 238 people were killed and 2932 injured in the flood and thousands of families were left homeless. Damage totaled $165 million. Now Canyon Lake is dammed once again and the flood plain is a series of parks, golf courses and bike paths, which should minimize damage from future floods.

1985 - Sacramento CA records first of 8 consecutive high temperatures above 100 degrees. On six of the days the high would be above 105!

1987 - Lightning strikes huge mountain of tires near Denver CO. Nearly two million tires burn out of the six million stored there.

1988 - Hail from severe thunderstorms in North Carolina caused 5 million dollars in property damage and 60 million dollars in crop damage.

1989 - This tornado did not stop to pay the toll. After causing some damage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it crossed the Delaware River, passing over part of the Ben Franklin Bridge. It did not damage the bridge, but did drop a lot of debris on it.

1989 - 15.34 inches of rain deluge Milton FL.

1990 - 0.38 of an inch of rain fell on this date in San Diego CA, which might not sound like much. But in the dry season, it was enough to shatter the old 24-hour rainfall record. The rare precipitation was the result of dying Hurricane Boris.

[pojo]

June 10th...

1752 - This is believed to be the date that Ben Franklin did his famous kite experiment during a thunderstorm to determine if lightning and electricity were related. Luckily, he lived to tell of the results.

1957 - A dust devil at North Yarmouth MA lifted a 1000 pound chicken house into the air and carried it 25 feet, depositing it on the ground with only slight damage.

1958 - Stormy weather in El Dorado KS. A woman was sucked through the window of her house and blown sixty feet. She landed beside a broken phonograph record, entitled appropriately: "Stormy Weather."

1988 - Williston ND recorded their seventh record high temperature in eight days with a sizzling 105 degrees.

1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather through the day and night across much of the southern half of the Great Plains Region. Thunderstorms spawned 14 tornadoes, and there were 142 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Hail three inches in diameter caused three millions dollars damage at Carlsbad, NM. Hail four inches in diameter was reported at Estelline TX and Stinnett, TX. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Odessa TX.

1995 - The temperature at Yakutat AK soared to 87 degrees for its hottest temperature ever.

1997 - Many cars were afloat in the southern suburbs of Miami, Florida, early this morning with people trapped in them. The intersection of SW 87th St. and Kendall Drive had 2 feet of water covering it. Water was waist deep in some spots. Rainfall amounts included: Tamiami Airport, Florida 6.99 inches and 9.83 inches at Homestead, Florida

[pojo]

June 11th...

1842 - Late season snow in northern New England. 11 inches of snow in Berlin NH and 10 inches in Irasburg VT. The higher peaks of the Appalachians were whitened as far south as Maryland.

1972 - Normally arid Phoenix AZ records 1.64 inches of rain on this date, a record one day rainfall amount for the any month of June in their history.

1977 - The temperature at Los Angeles soared to 112 degrees. It would have been sufficient to set the all-time record high temperature for the city, but official records did not begin until 20 days later.

1984 - Thunderstorm downbursts (straight-line winds) often have winds exceeding those produced by some tornadoes. A downburst estimated to be 160 mph blew a home near Rowena, South Dakota, totally off its foundation and scattered debris for several miles, killing two people.

1987 - More torrential rains in south Texas. Harris County Texas saw 12 inches of rain. Major flooding was reported in Val Verde County, where 7 feet of water covered Highway 189.

1988 - 48 degrees at El Dorado AR was just one of 30 record lows reported over the central and eastern portions of the country. The mercury dipped to 30 degrees at New Caanan and Thomas WV.

1989 - A tornado ripped the roof of a restaurant at Bee Branch AR. A car was tossed into the diner and another tossed over the building. 6 people were injured.

1990 - Costliest Hailstorm in U.S. history occurs as $625 million of damage is caused along the Colorado Front Range from Colorado Springs to Estes Park. Golf to baseball sized hail falls along with heavy rain. 60 people are injured in the storm.

1993 - The first federal Disaster Declaration is issued for parts of Minnesota hard ht by the beginning stages of the Great Midwest Flood of 1993. By August, parts of nine states are declared disaster areas. The entire state of Iowa was declared a disaster area. The flood was the worst this century in the U.S. Damage totaled almost $20 billion. More than 50,000 homes were damaged or destroyed.

[pojo]

June 12th...

1812 - The steam ship Pennsylvania blew its boiler and sank with 350 people aboard in a tropical storm; bridges on shore were washed away in storm torrents.

1881 - Five tornadoes touched down near St. Joseph MO. The town of Floral KS was wiped out by a major tornado. Five inches of rain fell in one hour in the town of Blue Earth City MN.

1885 - Tornado in Iowa blew part of a train off the tracks, injuring three passengers. Three coaches and a baggage car were lifted into the air and onto a field.

1899 - F5 tornado strikes New Richmond, Wisconsin. 117 people were killed and 200 were injured. A circus was playing in New Richmond, which meant an additional 1000 people were in town for the performances. Over 300 buildings were damaged or destroyed as the tornado went straight through the center of town. Six families had four or more members killed. A 3000-pound safe was blown a full block.

1942 - A tornado smashed a 4 block area in the southwest suburbs of Oklahoma City, OK. 35 people were killed. The twister completely demolished 73 homes and damaged 31 others.

1947 - Wyoming receives a surprise late spring snowstorm. 18.4 inches of the heavy wet snow fell at Lander, 8.7 inches at Cheyenne and 5 inches at Casper. For these locations it was their heaviest late season snow on record.

1969 - A record late snow blanketed parts of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska at "low" elevations on the 11th and 12th. Five inches accumulated at Great Falls and just east of Broadus, Montana, with 10 inches reported at Deerfield, South Dakota. There were several inches in northwest Nebraska. Traces of snow fell as far south as Kimball. The low a Billings MT dropped to 32 on the 12th and 13th, tying records for June.

1983 - Flooding and mudslides plague Utah. Streets had to be sandbagged in Salt Lake City. Floods inundated the town of Thistle UT when a mudslide dammed a river.

1987 - Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced softball size hail around Fremont and Ames, and 3.5 inches of rain in less than one hour. Four and a half inches in less than an hour caused flooding around Ithica, NE. A tornado destroyed a mobile home near Broken Bow, NE, injuring both occupants.

1988 - 40 degrees at Asheville NC was one of 15 record lows reported across the eastern part of the United States.

1988 - Drought conditions were worsening over the eastern U.S. Nashville TN was running 12.5 inches behind their average year-to-date rainfall.

1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Tennessee Valley to the Central Appalachians in the afternoon and evening, and produced severe weather in Oklahoma and Texas during the evening and night. Thunderstorms spawned ten tornadoes, and there were 164 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Winds gusted to 110 mph at Denton TX, 100 mph at Amarillo, TX. Hail three inches in diameter was reported at Tucumcari NM.

1994 - Severe hailstorm destroyed 70,000 acres of cropland in South Dakota.

[Aslkahuna]

than just sandbag streets in SLC in 1983 (and also in 1984). They created a sandbagged lined channel down two of the main thoroughfares in the City to divert floodwaters away from Temple Square and into the Jordan River southwest of the the City. In a testimony to the Mormons, they accomplished this feat in a very short time after the emergency call went out from the Temple. In an apocryphal story, it is said that a man who caught trout in the stream down State Street in SLC was fined for fishing without a license and out of season.

Steve

[pojo]

June 13th...

1889 - Forest fires raged across northern Wisconsin and Northeast Minnesota, destroying millions of board feet of timber. Meanwhile, snow fell all day in parts of Wyoming. Approximately 24 inches was measured in Rawlings.

1907 - Temperature plummets to 2 degrees below zero at Tamarack, CA to mark the lowest temperature of record in the U.S. for any June. 130 inches of snow was on the ground following 42 inches of new snow that fell between the 10th and the 13th.

1968 - A violent (F5) tornado killed 9 people in Tracy, Minnesota. Over one hundred and ten homes were destroyed, while a steel I-beam was reportedly carried for 2 miles on a piece of roof. Two farms hit by this tornado were also hit by a violent (F4) tornado on June 24, 1924.

1969 - 10 inches of snow fell on this date in Deerfield, SD as an unusual late season storm covered parts of South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska. 5 inches of snow was observed at Great Falls, Montana.

1984 - Tremendous hailstorm at Denver. Hailstones of up to 4 inches in diameter were measured. Vehicle damage alone was estimated at $150 million. Damage to homes and buildings totaled $200 million. Golfball size hail pounded some areas for forty minutes! Snowplows had to be called out to clear the roads of the hail. The hailstones injured 20 people. Ninety percent of the houses in the town of Limon CO suffered roof damage. Widespread flooding was reported at Lakewood CO.

1987 - 92 at International Falls MN was just one of 15 cities in the north central United States to record their highest temperatures ever for the date. Mason City IA and Waterloo IA reported record highs of 100 degrees.

1987 - Averill Park NY picked up 1.64 inches of rain in 15 minutes. Thunderstorms in the northeastern U.S. produced golf ball size hail around Hamilton Square NJ, along with high winds which tore the roof off a hospital causing a million dollars damage.

1988 - Afternoon thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Southern and Central Plains Region. Forrest NM was deluged with 5.5 inches of rain in ninety minutes. Temperatures soared into the 90s across much of the eastern half of the nation, including New England. Northern Illinois reported a record twenty straight days of dry weather.

1991 - Lightning struck a tree at the US Open Golf Tournament at Chaska, Minnesota. One spectator was killed, and six were injured.

1994 - A tornado in Iowa picked up a doghouse (with the dog inside) and carried it several blocks. Miraculously, the dog escaped without injury.

1998 - Tornadoes plague the Oklahoma City OK area. An F2 twister struck the Frontier City amusement park. Many buildings and vehicles were damaged.

[pojo]

June 14th...

1903 - A cloudburst over the Willow Creek watershed led to a 20 feet wall of water which swept away a third of the buildings in Heppner, Oregon. 236 people die as large part of town is swept away in flash flood.

1957 - East St. Louis, Illinois records the state record for rainfall in 24 hours with 16.54 inches.

1961 - 106 at the reporting station in Downtown San Francisco set an all-time record high for the location.

1987 - 101 at Milwaukee WI was their first 100 degree reading in 32 years. The high of 97 degrees at Flint, MI.

1987 - Thunderstorms brought much needed rains to South Texas, drenching McAllen with 3.2 inches in one hour. A thunderstorm soaked the town of Uncertain with 2.3 inches of rain in one hour.

1987 - Uncertain TX was drenched with 2.3 inches of rain in one hour.

1988 - Thirty cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date.

1989 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather from the Central Gulf States to the Middle Atlantic Coast Region during the day and into the night. There were 62 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds caused 28 million dollars damage in Montgomery County MD.

1990 - Shadyside Ohio is destroyed by a wall of water 10-30 feet high. 26 people died. The flooding was caused by 4 inches of rain that fell in just 75 minutes. Localized, excessive rainfall fell on saturated ground over southeastern Ohio the evening of June 14, 1990, resulting in a 15-20 foot wall of water that raced down three small tributaries of the Ohio River. It was similar, though smaller in scope, to the Big Thompson Canyon flood, and was the most deadly and destructive flash flood in the United States in the last ten years.

1998 - Corpus Christi TX sets its all time record high with a reading of 106 degrees.

[pojo]

June 15th...

1662 - A fast was held at Salem MA with prayers for rain, and the Lord gave a speedy answer.

1879 - 7.7 inches of rain in McKinney ND is still a 24 hour rainfall record for the state.

1896 - 127 degrees at Fort Mojave CA is the hottest June reading ever observed in the United States. The morning low that day was 97 degrees! The temperature would not drop below 100 degrees on the 12th, 14th or 16th of the month. Talk about uncomfortable sleeping weather.

1953 - Dust devils usually cause little problems, but on this date at Prescott AZ, two boys were injured fairly seriously by one.

1957 - 16.54 inches of rain in 24 hours at East St. Louis IL established a record for the state that still stands to this day.

1987 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the northwestern U.S. A tornado damaged five homes and destroyed a barn near Salmon ID. It lifted a metal shed 100 feet into the air, and deposited it 100 yards away. Hail an inch and a half in diameter caused ten million dollars damage to automobiles at Nampa ID.

1988 - A strong (F3) tornado caused to $10 million damage in Denver, Colorado, but only 7 were injured. Unhurt were a man who lost both shoes, a sock, and buttons off his shirt while clinging to a telephone pole. A golfer was thrown 40 feet and a woman and baby were sucked through a broken store window.

1988 - 97 at Portland ME was a record for June.

1989 - Strong F3 tornadoes caused numerous injuries at Mountville and Columbia PA. A total of 8 tornadoes were reported in the Mid Atlantic states.

1991 - Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew its top beginning a rampage that would hurl debris as high as 100,000 feet into the sky. Material from the eruption would spread around the globe, leading to climate changes worldwide as the sun's energy was blocked out and global temperatures cooled by as much as 1 degree F. 343 people were killed in the Philippines as a result of the eruptions and 200,00 were left homeless.

1992 - Great Plains Tornado Outbreak. 58 tornadoes would occur, making it the 14th most prolific tornado outbreak in U.S. history. The event would be the second largest two-day tornado outbreak in U.S. History. A giant supercell thunderstorm produced 38 separate funnel clouds that evening near Beloit KS. Some of the storms reached an amazing 78,000 feet into the atmosphere. One farmer south of Cawker City reported being chased to his basement 5 different times, each time finding more damage to his farm. He also reported seeing three tornadoes on the ground and four in the air at one time.

[Aslkahuna]

released in the Mt. Pinatubo eruption was a full order of magnitude greater than that of St. Helens in 1980. Although fine ashfall was observed as far as Arizona from the Pinatubo eruption, it was the Sulfate aerosols that led to the cooling as well as serious depletion of the O3 layer above and beyond what had been observed previously.

The current record high temperature for June in the US is now 128F set on June 29 1994 at both Death Valley AC and Lake Havasu City AZ.

Steve

[pojo]

Thanks for your expertise Steve

June 16th...

1806 - Total eclipse of the sun visible from Massachusetts to Southern California.

1917 - The temperature at Mecca CA soared to 124F, marking the zenith of California's most destructive heat wave on record.

1944 - Tornadoes usually travel northeast, but not the one that occurred on this date in 1944 in Sioux City IA. It spun in one place for twenty minutes, then traveled southeast, made a u-turn, and eventually headed in every direction on the compass before dissipating.

1965 - Severe floods in Colorado. 12-14 inches of rain fell on portions of the east slopes of the Rockies and the plains east of Denver. 14 inches fell at Palmer Lake and Larkspur. A wall of water roared down Plum Creek and into the South Platte River near Littleton. Flood waters spread to a width of 1/2 mile in Denver. Many homes and businesses were destroyed. Damage totaled $230 million. 8 people were killed.

1972 - Agnes was born on this date, forming as a tropical storm east of the Yucatan Peninsula. Agnes would be a storm with two distinct lives. She would move north over the Gulf of Mexico and strike the Florida Panhandle as a minimal hurricane. A few days later, the remnants of Hurricane Agnes would be rejuvenated over the Northeast, dumping heavy amounts of rain and causing record flooding across area from the 20th through the 24th.

1987 - Temperatures soared above 100 degrees in the Upper Midwest, reaching 104 degrees at Lincoln, NE. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 96 mph at Valley City, ND, and baseball size hail near Red Oak, IA.

1988 - After a brief respite, hot weather returned to the Northern High Plains Region. Late night thunderstorms in Montana produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Polson and north of Lake Seeley.

1989 - Daytime thunderstorms produced severe weather from northern Florida to the Middle Atlantic Coast. The thunderstorms spawned eight tornadoes, and there were 138 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 87 mph caused twenty million dollars damage at Columbia SC. Strong thunderstorm winds killed one person at McLeansville NC.

1992 - 65 tornadoes reported across the central U.S. on this date, the second highest one day total in history. 27 occurred in Minnesota. An F5 tornado leveled half of the town of Chandler, Minnesota, where one person was killed. The two-day count of twisters was 123, second only to the Superoutbreak of April 3-4, 1974.

[pojo]

June 17th...

1859 - Hot Santa Ana winds were hot enough to roast fruit on one side at Santa Barbara CA.

1882 - Town of Grinell Iowa was destroyed by a tornado. The path of the family of twisters was 105 miles long. Total storm fatalities were 68. 39 were killed in the town of Grinnell. Two people were killed on a train west of Grinnell. Observers reported seeing two twin funnels as the storm passed through Grinnell.

1960 - Heavy rains just west of Binghamton NY produced 3 inches of rain in less than a half an hour. Flash flooding was reported in Johnson City, Vestal, and northern sides of Endicott.

1965 - 11.08 inches of rain fell at Holly CO, establishing the state's 24 hour rainfall record.

1978 - The "Whippoorwill" Disaster. A weak tornado struck a showboat on Pomona Lake KS with 58 people aboard as it left the dock for a dinner cruise. 16 people drowned as the boat capsized, making the twister the deadliest tornado of the year.

1987 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S. Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Lyons, and baseball size hail at Garden City. The Edwards Aquifer, which supplies water to San Antonio, TX, reached a record level of 699.2 feet following a record 18.43 inches of rain in thirty days. Torrential rains between the mid May and mid June sent 8.8 million acre feet of water down the rivers of southern Texas, the largest volume in 100 years of records.

1991 - Record cold over the Pacific Northwest. New record low temperature marks were established in Burna, OR with 31 degrees and Yakima, WA with 36.

1997 - What a difference a few miles and an ocean makes! A daily record low temperature was broken at the Atlantic City Airport at 5:50 this morning. The old record was 48 degrees, set back in 1995 and previous years. On the other hand, the state marina in Atlantic City, NJ, was a balmy 61 degrees, far from the record of 52, set in 1964.

[pojo]

June 18th...

1870 - $5 million in damage from wind, rain and hail in Oberlin KS. The hail piled up to a depth of 7 inches.

1875 - A severe coastal storm (or possible hurricane) struck the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia. Eastport ME reported wind gusts to 57 mph.

1958 - Hailstones up to four inches in diameter killed livestock as a storm passed from Joliet to Belfry in Carbon County MT.

1970 - Wind and rain, and hail up to seven inches deep, caused more than five million dollars damage at Oberlin KS.

1987 - It was a hot day in the Upper Great Lakes Region. Nine cities in Michigan and Wisconsin reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 90 degrees at Marquette, MI, marked their third straight day of record heat. Severe thunderstorm in the Northern and Central High Plains Region spawned half a dozen tornadoes in Wyoming and Colorado. Wheatridge, CO, was deluged with 2.5 inches of rain in one hour.

1988 - Severe thunderstorms in eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota produced hail three inches in diameter and spawned four tornadoes in Steele County. Thunderstorms also produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Clearbrook MN.

1989 - Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in the southwestern U.S. In Arizona, afternoon highs of 103 degrees at Winslow, 113 degrees at Tucson, and 115 degrees at Phoenix were records for the date.

1991 - Atlanta GA recorded a new record for the amount of rainfall in one hour: 3.47 inches falling between 6:52 PM and 7:52 PM EDT.

[pojo]

June 19th...

1835 - Tornado occurred at New Brunswick, New Jersey killing 5 people. Debris falling from the tornado was reported as far away as Manhattan. Other smaller tornadoes were reported at Patterson, New Jersey, Kinderhook, New York, and Pine Plains, New York.

1938 - Cloudburst causes railroad bridge to collapse near Custer Creek, MT killing 48 people. 7 passenger cars and the locomotive all plunged off the bridge. One sleeper car was completely submerged. 4 - 7 inches of rain led to the disaster.

1972 - Hurricane Agnes moves ashore in the Florida panhandle. The highest wind reported was a gust to just 56 mph at Apalachicola, Florida. Agnes' main damage would come two days later as the remnants of the storm brought tremendous rains and flooding to parts of the Northeast. Hurricane Agnes' five-day romp through the Atlantic seaboard 25 years ago made the storm the costliest natural disaster in the United States at that time. Damage was estimated at $3.5 billion and 122 deaths were reported from Florida to New York. Agnes would produce more damage than all tropical cyclones in the previous six years, including Camille.

1987 - Debunking another lightning myth: A woman was struck by lightning while in her car in Know County, TX.

1988 - Temperatures soared above 100 degrees in the central U.S. for Father's Day. Fifteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Severe thunderstorms in Minnesota and Wisconsin produced softball size hail near River Falls WI, and wind gusts to 80 mph at Menomonie WI.

1989 - Fourteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date as searing heat spread from the southwestern deserts into the High Plains Region. Record highs included 98 degrees at Billings, MT, 107 degrees at Valentine, NE, and 112 degrees at Tucson, AZ.

1992 - One of the worst thunderstorm disasters ever to hit Kansas. Two massive hailstorms across south central Kansas dumped hailstones as large as 4.5 inches in diameter in the area around Sedgwick and surrounding counties. Over 10,000 homes were damaged. Property damage totaled $500 million and crop damage exceeded $100 million. The wheat crop was nearly totally destroyed.

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June 20th...

1682 - Major tornado hits Southwestern Connecticut. The cities of New Haven, Stratford and Milford were affected before the twister passed out into Long Island Sound.

1890 - The Deacon Hunt School near Paw Paw, IL was struck by an F4 tornado near midafternoon. Most of the children had been sent home, but the twister killed all the 6 remaining pupils and teacher. A total of 13 fatalities and 60 injuries were reported along the storm's path which extended 25 miles across Lee and DeKalb counties.

1921 - Circle, MT had the greatest 24-hour precipitation for Montana: 11.50".

1928 - A farmer near Greensburg, KS, looked up into the heart of a tornado. He described its walls as "rotating clouds lit with constant flashes of lightning and a strong gassy odor with a screaming, hissing sound".

1957 - A violent tornado tore through Fargo ND. 10 people were killed, 103 were injured. 1300 homes were damaged or destroyed. The twister tore a 56 mile-long, 800 yards wide path through the city. The tornado caused $10 million damage.

1964 - A series of squall lines moved through central Illinois on the 20th and early on the 21st. Major hailstorms produced hailstones as large as grapefruit. There was heavy damage to structures, trees and utility lines. Damage totaled $9 million.

1964 - Ken Venturi won golf's U.S. Open at Washington, D.C., playing under almost unbearable conditions of heat and humidity. The high on this date was today's high was 92° (humidity was 85%). Yesterday's high was 95°. Ice for the golfers' use was allowed for the final round.

1987 - Thunderstorms prevailed east of the Rockies, producing severe weather in the Central High Plains Region. Thunderstorms spawned four tornadoes in Colorado, and produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Goodland, KS.

1988 - 104 at Chicago IL and 97 at Flint MI were both records for the month of June at each respective location. 38 U.S. Cities reported record highs for the date.

1989 - Hot thunderstorm winds raised the temperature at Pierre SD from 86 at midnight to 96 at 1 am to an amazing 104 degrees at 2am. Butte, MT, and Yellowstone Park, WY, reported snow that afternoon.

1991 - 5.5 inches of rain in Waterton Lakes in Alberta, Canada.

1991 - Record high of 86 in Annette, AK easily beat the old record of 79 set in 1958.

1995 - Unusually large hail for New England. Baseball size hail at Vernon, Manchester, Deep River and Old Saybrook, CT. Hail lasted for 20 minutes at Deep River where hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage were caused. Automobiles were totaled.

1993 - Tropical Storm Arlene dumped 9-10 inches of rain on Corpus Christi, TX.

1997 - Parts of eastern Nebraska woke up to a real hot morning. After low temperatures overnight in the upper 70s, the temperature spiked up to at least 89 degrees at Lincoln at 5 AM, 90 at the western suburbs of Omaha and to 93 degrees near Gretna. The biggest warm up was at Millard, where the temperature soared to 97 degrees. By 6 am CDT, the warming reached Eppley Airfield, with the temperature up to 88 degrees from 81 degrees at 4 am. This heating was caused by a layer of hot air aloft which was pulled to the surface by thunderstorms in the area. It was accompanied by gusty southerly winds.

1997 - Jackson, Mississippi, finally reached 90 today for the first time in 1997. This is the latest ever for the first 90-degree reading. The old record for the first 90 degree day was June 19,1974. There had only been 14 years out of 102 years that the temperature has not reached 90 at Jackson by June 1st.

[pojo]

June 21st...

1791 - A hurricane (El Temporal de Barreto - the storm of Barreto) generated a huge wave which carried off the coffin of a rich but hated count as he lay in state in his mansion near Havana, Cuba. The coffin and body were never again seen.

1886 - Destructive hurricane hits the Tallahassee/Apalachicola area of Florida. Extensive damage in the southeast and along the Florida coast. The storm caused extremely high tides.

1893 - Dodge City KS and the central Plains were in the middle of a blistering heat wave. The mercury soared to 106 degrees. The heat wave would precede a three-year drought that severely affected all of the Central Plains. But in the Mississippi Valley, heavy rains were flooding the Mississippi Rover, causing it to swell to its highest level on record at New Orleans.

1919 - Seven heavy coach cars of a moving train were picked up and thrown from the tracks by tornado winds. A baggage car was set down thirty feet away from the rest of the train.

1954 - Wichita KS suffered $9 million in damage from a major hailstorm.

1972 - 1.64 inches of rain fell in Phoenix AZ on the 21st and 22nd, easily surpassing their previous June rainfall record.

1987 - A tornado destroyed 57 mobile homes at the Chateam Estates trailer park northwest of Detroit, MI, killing one person and injuring six others. Total damage was estimated at 1.7 million dollars. Thunderstorms over Lower Michigan also drenched the Saginaw Valley with up to 4.5 inches of rain in less than six hours.

1988 - 69 cities in the Northern and Central Plains and Ohio Valley reported record highs for the date on this first day of summer. 110 at Sioux Falls SD is an all-time record.

1989 - The first day of summer saw up to 18 inches of snow at Dickensen Park west of Lander WY. Heavy snow was reported all along the northern and central Rockies.

1989 - Huntsville AL's monthly precipitation total reached 11.65 inches, establishing a new monthly record for June. What a contrast to the year before, when Huntsville only picked up .17 inches of rainfall.

1998 - A nighttime severe storm plowed through central Moscow in Russia during the early morning hours, killing 10, injuring almost 200, and causing over $150 million in damage. Traffic was snarled early Sunday due to widespread damage. The event also ignited tensions between the mayor's office and the Russian weather service. Talk about pressure on the weatherman!

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June 22nd...

1919 - 59 people were killed as an F5 tornado ripped through the town of Fergus Falls, Minnesota. 400 buildings were destroyed. A blank check was found over 60 miles away and lumber was carried 10 miles.

1947 - 12 inches of rain fell in 42 minutes at Holt Missouri to set a new world record for intense rainfall. The record would be tied in January 24-25, 1956 in Hawaii at the Kilauea Sugar Plantation.

1972 - The remnants of Hurricane Agnes cause tremendous rains of 10-20 inches across Maryland, Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania. Tremendous flooding occurred in Pennsylvania. Much of Wilkes-Baare, Pennsylvania was destroyed when floodwaters breached a dike and a wall of water inundated the town. $3.5 billion in damage and 122 killed as a result of the floods.

1981 - A young woman from Lubbock, TX, was struck by lightning. The bolt of lightning struck just above her right shoulder near her neck, and passed right to left through her body, tearing her warm-ups, causing her tennis shoes to explode, and lifting her two feet into the air.

1987 - Thunderstorms in southern Texas produced wind gusts to 116 mph near Quemado. Thunderstorms in New York State produced 5.01 inches of rain in 24 hours at Buffalo, an all-time record for that location, and produced an inch of rain at Bath, PA. The temperature at Fairbanks AK soared to 92 degrees, establishing a record for the date.

1988 - Tucson AZ reported their all time record high with a reading of 114 degrees. The high temperature broke the previous record all-time high, which had just been set the day before.

1989 - 39 at Rapid City SD on this date was a record low. In contrast, the temperature just two days earlier was a record 102 degrees.

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June 23rd...

1586 - Sir Francis Drake ran into the Roanoke Island Hurricane off the Mid Atlantic coast. The result of the three-day storm and the settlers complaining about thunderstorms with hail the size of hen's eggs and great spouts at sea, caused Drake to evacuate the settlers back to England.

1902 - Volcano Springs, California lived up to its name on this date as the mercury reached 129 degrees, the highest ever in the United States in June.

1944 - Tornado outbreak in Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. 3 F4 tornadoes caused most of the destruction. 100 people were killed in Shinnston WV, which was leveled. A total of 154 people were killed and 966 were injured. The tornadoes defied previous meteorological thought by crossing mountainous terrain.

1954 - Nebraska records its hottest temperature ever (122F).

1957 - 21 people are injured by softball size hail when they were caught outside at Fort Stockton in West Texas.

1969 - During the morning, over 9 inches of rain soaked the Salt Lick Creek watershed. In Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, a wall of water 7 feet high tumbled, swirled, and crushed houses, vehicles, street pavement, and small buildings as though they were "children's' toys in a ditch". Two people died.

1972 - The remnants of Hurricane Agnes were stalled over Pennsylvania causing massive flooding.

1980 - First day of a string of 100+ maximum temperatures in Dallas Texas that did not end until August 4. Over 1200 people succumbed to the heat and died during the summer in the American southwest.

1982 - The all time record South Pole Weather Station low of -117 degrees was recorded. (This is not the record low for the Antarctic Continent. It was -128.6 degrees, set on July 21, 1983)

1987 - A massive hailstorm hit eastern Colorado causing an estimated 60 to 70 million dollars damage. At La Junta, CO, hail as large as softballs caused 37 million dollars damage.

1988 - Thirty-four cities reported record high temperatures for the date. The reading of 90 degrees at Bluefield, WV, equalled their record for the month of June. The record high of 104 degrees at Billings, MT, was their thirteenth of the month.

1997 - Texas Deluge...an upper-level low-pressure system that had brought extreme amounts of rain to parts of Texas began to lift north. In its wake, extensive flooding has crippled many small towns and made some roads impassable. Doppler storm total rainfall estimates west of San Antonio showed a maximum of 22.4 inches in southwestern Kendall and northeastern Bandera counties. San Antonio itself saw 4.28 inches of rainfall in the past two days, bringing its total to 6.08 inches for the month, which is 206 percent more than normal. The capital of the Lone Star State, Austin, had received 293 percent of its normal June precipitation to date, after receiving 2.86 inches over the past two days. In Texas, hundreds of families evacuated their homes along swollen river and lakebeds from Hondo, west of San Antonio, to Lakeway, west of Austin. After driving weekend rain, the Llano River rose to its highest point, 38.59 feet, on Sunday night near the town of Llano. That broke the record of 32.60 feet set on Sept. 10, 1952, and caused the worst flooding in 100 years along the Llano. Three people perished in the flooding and many roads were impassable.