Tuesday Daily Weather Summary

DAILY WEATHER SUMMARY

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

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HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 22 June

From the files of the Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO and Intellicast

...1919...A F5 tornado struck the town of Fergus Falls, MN. Fifty-nine people were killed and 400 buildings were destroyed. Lumber was carried for 10 miles and a blank check was carried a distance of 60 miles. (Intellicast)
...1947...Twelve inches of rain fell in forty-two minutes at Holt, MO establishing a world rainfall intensity record. That record was tied on 24-25 January 1956, at the Kilauea Sugar Plantation in Hawaii, as their state record was established with 38 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The Weather Channel)
...1972...Hurricane Agnes (a category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale) deluged Pennsylvania and New York State with torrential rains resulting in the most costly flood in U.S. history. Having made landfall near Apalachicola, Florida on the 19^th, Agnes moved northeast, joined up with an upper level disturbance, and unloaded anywhere from 10 to 20 inches of rain across the region. In the Middle Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania, 24 hour rainfall amounts were generally 8 to 12 inches, with up to 19 inches in extreme southwestern Schuylkill County. At Wilkes-Barre, PA, the dike was breached destroying much of the town. Total damage was $3.5 billion and 122 lives were lost. (David Ludlum)
...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. (The Weather Channel)
...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. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Sixty-five cities in twenty-four states reported record high temperatures for the date. Tucson, AZ reported an all-time record high of 114 degrees, surpassing the previous record of 112 degrees established a day earlier. Highs of 98 degrees at Pittsburgh, PA and 100 degrees at Baltimore, MD tied records for the month of June. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Unseasonably cold air and record low temperatures were reported in the High Plains Region. Rapid City, SD reported a record low of 39 degrees, in sharp contrast to their record high of 102 degrees two days earlier, on the 20^th. (The National Weather Summary)

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