Wednesday Daily Weather Summary

DAILY WEATHER SUMMARY

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

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HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 14 July

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

...1886...Los Angeles had its greatest 24-hour July rainfall with 0.24 inches. (Intellicast)
...1934...Record high temperature for New Mexico was set with 116 degrees at Oragrande. This record has been eclipsed by 6 degrees in June 1994. (Intellicast)
...1936...Extreme heat prevailed across the central U.S. as severe drought raged from Texas to the Dakotas. All-time record high temperatures were established in sixteen states that summer, including readings as high as 120 degrees in the Great Plains Region. A Hoosier State record high of 116 degrees was set at Collegeville, IN. On this particular date, afternoon highs for 113 stations across the state of Iowa averaged 108.7 degrees. (David Ludlum) (Intellicast)
...1954...The temperature reached 118 degrees at Warsaw and Union in Missouri to set the Show-Me State's highest temperature on record. A record high temperature for the state of Illinois was also set at East St. Louis with a 117-degree reading. (NCDC)
...1957...Hail, with some stones up to an inch in diameter, covered the ground to a depth of three inches ruining crops in the Bath area of New Hampshire. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Severe thunderstorms in Iowa produced eight inches of golf ball size hail near Grafton, IA, completely stripping corn stalks in the area. Hail caused more than a million dollars damage to crops in Worth County and Mitchell County, and another million dollars of damage in Ada County and Crawford County. Unseasonably cool weather prevailed in the Great Plains Region. Eight cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Duluth, MN with a reading of 37 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in the Northern Atlantic Coast Region during the afternoon and evening hours. Thunderstorms also spawned a rather strong tornado near Westtown, NY, and drenched Agawam, MA with four inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather from eastern New Mexico to central Nebraska. One hundred soldiers were injured by flying debris and collapsing tents during a thunderstorm near Trinidad, CO. Thunderstorms in Colorado produced wind gusts to 77 mph at La Junta. Early morning thunderstorms produced torrential rains over parts of Louisiana, with 7.50 inches at Carencro, and 5.85 inches at Morgan City. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1995...Big heat wave continued in the central and eastern U.S. with all time highs at Chicago/Midway with 106 degrees, La Crosse, WI with 108 degrees, South Bend, IN at 100 and Toledo, OH at 104 set all-time highs. Boston, MA and Burlington, VT both hit 100 degrees. (Intellicast)

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