Wednesday Daily Weather Summary

DAILY WEATHER SUMMARY

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

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or
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/nationalforecast/index.html (The Weather Channel)

HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 21 July

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

...1911...The temperature at Painter, WY dipped to 10 degrees to equal the record low for July for the continental U.S. (The Weather Channel)
...1930...The record high temperature for Delaware was set with 110 degrees at Millsboro. (Intellicast)
...1934...The temperature reached 109 degrees at Cincinnati, OH to cap their hottest summer of record. The state record for Ohio was established that day with a reading of 113 degrees near the town of Gallipolis. (David Ludlum)
...1975...Six inches of rain fell across Mercer County, NJ in just ten hours causing the worst flooding in twenty years. Assunpink Creek crested eleven feet above flood stage at Hamilton and Trenton, the highest level of record. Traffic was brought to a standstill, and railway service between New York City and Washington, DC was cut off for two days. Flooding left 1000 persons homeless, and caused an estimated 25 million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
...1986...The fifteenth day in a row with 100 degree readings at Columbia, SC, 10 days in a row of 100 at Macon GA with record high of 106 degrees. (Intellicast)
...1987...Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Utah to North Dakota, spawning a dozen tornadoes in North Dakota. Thunderstorms in North Dakota also produced baseball size hail at Clifford which caused four million dollars damage, and high winds which toppled a couple of eighty foot towers cutting off power to the town of Blanchard. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
Severe storms in Teton wilderness in northwest Wyoming produce the highest elevation F4 tornado ever documented. Tornado traveled 24.3 miles and created a massive blowdown of trees. At one point, it was 2.5 miles wide! (Intellicast)
...1988...While cool air invaded the central U.S., unseasonably hot weather continued over the western states. The temperature at Spring Valley, NV soared from a morning low of 35 degrees to an afternoon high of 95 degrees. Fallon, NV reported an all-time record high of 108 degrees, and Death Valley, CA reported their sixth straight day of 120-degree heat. (The Weather Channel) (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Afternoon thunderstorms over Florida produced wind gusts to 92 mph at Jacksonville, damaging thirteen light planes at Herlong Field. Five cities in Texas reported record low temperatures for the date. Corpus Christi, TX equaled their record low for the date with a reading of 71 degrees and then tied their record high for the date that afternoon with a reading of 97 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1991...Windsor Locks, CT hit 101 degrees, the third day in a row with temperatures over 100 degrees. Providence RI reached 102 degrees, their second day of 100-degree readings, very rare for this location. (Intellicast)

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