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Friday, 12 August 2005

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HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 12 August

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

...1778...A Rhode Island hurricane prevented an impending British-French sea battle, and caused extensive damage over southeast New England. (David Ludlum)
...1933...The temperature at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, CA hit 127 degrees to establish a U.S. record for the month of August. (The Weather Channel)
...1936...The temperature at Seymour, TX hit 120 degrees to establish a state record. This Lone Star State record was later tied in June 1994. (The Weather Channel)
...1955...During the second week of August hurricanes Connie and Diane produced as much as 19 inches of rain in the northeastern U.S. forcing rivers from Virginia to Massachusetts into a high flood. Westfield, MA was deluged with 18.15 inches of rain in 24 hours, and at Woonsocket, RI the Blackstone River swelled from seventy feet in width to a mile and a half. Connecticut and the Delaware Valley were hardest hit. Total damage in New England was 800 million dollars, and flooding claimed 187 lives. (David Ludlum)
...1987...Early afternoon thunderstorms in Arizona produced 3.90 inches of rain in ninety minutes at Walnut National Monument (located east of Flagstaff), along with three inches of pea size hail, which had to be plowed off the roads. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Fifteen cities in the northeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Youngstown, OH reported twenty-six days of 90-degree weather for the year, a total equal to that for the entire decade of the 1970s. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms were scattered across nearly every state in the Union by late in the day. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Fergus Falls, MN, and golf ball size hail and wind gusts to 60 mph at Black Creek, WI. In the Chicago area, lightning injured seven persons at a forest preserve in North Riverside. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

13 August

...1831...A blue sun was widely observed in the Southern states. The phenomena was believed to have pre-staged Nat Turner's slave uprising. (David Ludlum)
...1919...High winds and heavy rain struck the Middle Atlantic Coast Region. In New Jersey, winds gusted to 60 mph at Atlantic City, and nine inches of rain fell at Tuckerton. The wind and rain leveled crops and stripped trees of fruit causing several million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
...1980...The afternoon high at New York City was just 89 degrees. On fifteen days during the month the temperature reached at least 90 degrees for their hottest August of record. (The Weather Channel)
...1985...Hail larger than golf balls, driven by 70-mph winds, moved down crops, stripped trees, and broke windows, near Logan, KS. Road graders cleared three-foot drifts of hail on Kansas Highway 9 east of Logan. (The Weather Channel)
...1986... Flagstaff, AZ received 3.04 inches of rain, the most ever for a single day in August. (Intellicast)
...1987...Thunderstorms deluged the Central Gulf Coast States with torrential rains. Thunderstorms in Mississippi drenched Marion County with up to 15 inches of rain during the morning hours, with 12.2 inches reported at Columbia. Floodwaters swept cars away in the Lakeview subdivision of Columbia when the Lakeview Dam broke. Flash flooding caused more than three million dollars damage in Marion County. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...A dozen cities in the northeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Lansing, MI reported a record 35 days of 90-degree weather for the year, Detroit, MI reported a record 37 days of 90 degree heat for the year, and Williamsport, PA reported a record 38 days of 90-degree weather for the year. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms developing in a tropical airmass over the northeastern U.S. soaked Connecticut and Massachusetts with four to eight inches of rain over the weekend, between the 11^th and 13^th of the month. Hartford, CT received 7.70 inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1993...Phoenix, AZ topped 100 degrees for the sixty-fifth straight day, breaking the record set just in 1989. (Intellicast)

14 August

...1936...Temperatures across much of eastern Kansas soared above 110 degrees. Kansas City, MO hit an all-time record high of 113 degrees. It was one of sixteen consecutive days of 100-degree heat for Kansas City. During that summer there were a record 53 days of 100-degree heat, and during the three summer months Kansas City received just 1.12 inches of rain. (The Kansas City Weather Almanac)
...1987...Slow moving thunderstorms deluged northern and western suburbs of Chicago, IL with torrential rains. O'Hare Airport reported 9.35 inches in 18 hours, easily exceeding the previous 24-hour record of 6.24 inches. The airport was closed due to extensive flooding, the first time ever for a non-winter event. Flooding over a five-day period resulted in 221 million dollars damage. It was Chicago's worst flash flood event, particularly for northern and western sections of the city. Kennedy Expressway became a footpath for thousands of travelers to O'Hare Airport as roads were closed. The heavy rains swelled the Des Plaines River above flood stage, and many persons had to be rescued from stalled vehicles on flooded roads. (13^th–14^th) (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) (The Weather Channel) (Intellicast)
...1988...Eighteen cities in the northeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, and the water temperature at Lake Erie reached a record 80 degrees. Portland, ME reported a record fourteen straight days of 80-degree weather. Milwaukee, WI reported a record 34 days of 90-degree heat for the year. Afternoon and evening thunderstorms resulted in about fifty reports of severe weather in the northeastern U.S. One person was killed at Stockbridge, MI when a tornado knocked a tree onto their camper. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Afternoon thunderstorms in Illinois soaked the town of Battendorf with 2.10 inches of rain in thirty minutes. Evening thunderstorms in Montana produced wind gusts to 66 mph at Hobson. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

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