DAILY WEATHER SUMMARY

Tuesday, 3 August 2010

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HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 3 August

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

• ...1885...A tornado hit Philadelphia, PA and Camden, NJ along its eight mile path. (David Ludlum)
• ...1898...Philadelphia, PA had one of its worst thunderstorms ever when 5.84 inches fell in just 2 hours. (Intellicast)
• ...1970...Hurricane Celia made landfall near Port Aransas on the Texas coast, producing wind gusts to 161 mph at Corpus Christi, and estimated wind gusts of 180 mph at Aransas Pass. Even at Del Rio, 250 miles inland, Celia produced wind gusts to 89 mph. The hurricane was the most destructive of record along the Texas coast causing 454 million dollars damage as 8,950 homes were destroyed on the Coastal Bend. Celia also claimed eleven lives and injured 466 people. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel) (Intellicast)
• ...1987...A severe thunderstorm moved across Cheyenne, WY during the midafternoon. The thunderstorm produced hailstones up to two inches in diameter causing more than 37 million dollars damage.
  The eastern U.S. sweltered in the heat. A dozen cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Paducah, KY with a reading of 102 degrees. Beckley, WV established an all-time record with an afternoon high of 93 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
• ...1988...Thunderstorms developing ahead of a slow moving cold front produced severe weather from the Central High Plains to the Upper Great Lakes Region. Thunderstorms around Fort Collins, CO produced wind gusts to 74 mph along with marble size hail. Sixteen persons were injured in the storm, most of whom were accidentally locked out of their office building, having evacuated it when the fire alarm went off, apparently triggered by lightning. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
• ...1989...Thunderstorms representing what remained of Hurricane Chantal drenched Wichita, KS with 2.20 inches of rain in four hours during the early morning. Thunderstorms developing in Minnesota produced wind gusts to 85 mph at Baudette during the afternoon, and softball size hail at Lake Kabetogama, during the evening. Jamestown, ND reported a record afternoon high of 103 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
• ...1995...South Bend, IN received 4.83 inches of rain in 24 hours to set the city's greatest daily rainfall record. (Intellicast)

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