Wednesday Daily Weather Summary

ONLINE DAILY WEATHER SUMMARY

Wednesday, 10 August 2005

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HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 10 August

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

...1856...The Isle Derniere (Last Island) disaster occurred off the coast of Louisiana. A storm tide drowned 140 vacationers as a five-foot wave swept over Low Island during a hurricane. (The Weather Channel) The hurricane completely devastated the fashionable hotel and pleasure resort on Last Island, 150 miles east of Cameron. Storm surge swept an estimated 400 people to their death. Today the island is just a haven for pelicans and other sea birds. (Intellicast)
...1882...Sandusky, OH noted a four-minute snow squall during the morning, frost was reported in the suburbs of Chicago, and a killing frost was reported at Cresco, IA. (The Weather Channel)
...1898...The temperature at Pendleton, OR climbed all the way to 119 degrees to tie the state record set two weeks previously at Prineville. (The Weather Channel)
...1924...Colorado's deadliest tornado killed a woman and nine children in one house along its twenty-mile path east-southeast of Thurman. Mennonite men had left the farm to provide possible aid, as the 200-yard wide storm was first seen while far away. (The Weather Channel)
...1936...The temperature soared to 114 degrees at Plain Dealing, LA, and reached 120 degrees at Ozark, AR, to establish record highs for those two states. (The Weather Channel)
...1980...Hurricane Allen came ashore north of Brownsville, TX dropping fifteen inches of rain near San Antonio, and up to 20 inches in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, ending a summer long drought. Winds at Port Mansfield gusted to 140 mph with a storm surge of 12 feet. Tidal flooding occurred along the South Texas coast. Hurricane Allen packed winds to 150 mph, and also spawned twenty-nine tornadoes. Total damage from the storm was estimated at 750 million dollars. (David Ludlum) (Intellicast)
...1987...Unseasonably hot weather continued in the southeastern U.S. Ten cities in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina reported record high temperatures for the date. Macon, GA hit 101 degrees. A tropical depression deluged southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana with torrential rains. (The National Weather Summary)
...1988...Citizens of Bluefield, WV, where the Chamber of Commerce provides free lemonade on days when the temperature warms into the 90s, were able to celebrate their record high of 90 degrees. Eight other cities also reported record high temperatures for the date, including Bismarck, ND with a reading of 102 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
The temperature reached 102 degrees at Ely, NV breaking the all-time record there. (Intellicast)
...1989...Thirty-eight cities in the south central and southeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville, NC with a reading of 48 degrees, and Victoria, TX with a low of 63 degrees. Oklahoma City, OK reported a record cool afternoon high of 71 degrees, and the daily high of 64 degrees at Raleigh, NC established a record for August. In Arizona, a record sixty-four day streak of 100-degree days at Phoenix came to an end. (The National Weather Summary)

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