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1 June 1903 → The Gainesville (GA) Cotton Mill was hit by an F4 tornado. Children working on the top floor were killed by debris and by being flung five stories down to the ground. Other employees escaping the building were killed by falling debris. A total of about 100 people lost their lives in the area affected by the tornado.  http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/031/mwr-031-06-0268b.pdf
1 June 1907 → South America's coldest temperature was recorded at Sarmiento, Argentina, at -27 degrees. That's the same as Frankfort, KY's all-time record low.
1 June 1999 → An MD-82 aircraft ran off the runway, broke up, and caught fire in Little Rock, AR. It occurred as the plane touched down. There were thunderstorms with winds gusting to 50 mph in the area at the time (there was an 87mph gust shortly after the crash). One of the six crewmembers and ten of the 139 passengers were killed.  http://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=3&LLID=61
http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_June_01
1 June 1919: Snowfall of almost a half inch fell at Denver, Colorado. This is their greatest 24-hour snowfall recorded in the month of June. Two temperature records were set: The low temperature of 32 degrees was a record low for the date and the high of only 40 degrees was a record low maximum. Cheyenne, Wyoming recorded 1.6 inches of snow, which is one of only 6 times that at least one inch of snow has fallen at Cheyenne in June.
1 June 1999: A tornado with an intermittent damage path damaged 200 homes, businesses, and other buildings in the southern portion of St. James, MO. Of these, 33 homes were destroyed along with the St. James Golf Course clubhouse and two Missouri Department of Transportation buildings. The tornado then moved east, south of the downtown St. James area and intensified. F2 to F3 damage occurred with a 200 to 300 yard damage path. Several homes and farm buildings were severely damaged or destroyed. Further north, severe thunderstorms produced many tornadoes around central Illinois. The most intense tornado touched down in Montgomery County south of Farmersville, and moved into southwest Christian County. One person was killed, when a semi-trailer was overturned at a rest area on I-55. Across eastern parts of the state, high winds up to 70 mph caused damage to trees, power lines, and some buildings. The Mattoon area also reported flooding from these storms, producing $3 million dollars damage. 
1 June 1903: During the early afternoon, one of the most destructive tornadoes in the history of Georgia up to, this time, struck the outskirts of Gainesville. The track of the storm was about four miles in length and varied between 100 to 200 feet in width. The tornado touched down about one mile southwest of Gainesville, striking a large cotton mill at 12:45 pm, Eastern Time, just 10 minutes after 750 employees filed into the great structure from dinner. On the top floor of the mill were employed 250 children, and it was here that the greatest loss of life occurred. Click HERE for more information from the Monthly Weather Review. http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/031/mwr-031-06-0268b.pdf 
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The dotted lines in the image above contain an estimated tornado track. The image is courtesy of the Monthly Weather Review.

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Above is the cotton mill where most of the deaths occurred. This estimated F4 tornado killed 98 people and injured at least 200 others. Click HERE for more information from GenDisasters.com  
http://www3.gendisasters.com/georgia/8432/gainesville-ga-tornado-jun-1903
1 June 1919: Snowfall of almost a half-inch fell at Denver, Colorado. This is their greatest 24-hour snowfall recorded in the month of June. Two temperature records were set: The low temperature of 32 degrees was a record low for the date, and the high of only 40 degrees was a record low maximum. Cheyenne, Wyoming recorded 1.6 inches of snow, which is one of only six times that at least one inch of snow has fallen at Cheyenne in June.
1 June 1934:  June started off on a warm note as high temperatures surpassed the century mark across parts of the Midwest. Several locations tied or set a record high temperatures for June including: Rockford, IL: 106°, Mather, WI: 105°, Hatfield, WI: 103°, Mondovi, WI: 102°, Chicago, IL: 102° and Grand Rapids, MI tied their June record high with 102°.
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1 June 1999: A tornado with an intermittent damage path destroyed 200 homes, businesses, and other buildings in the southern portion of St. James, Missouri. Of these, 33 homes were destroyed along with the St. James Golf Course clubhouse and two Missouri Department of Transportation buildings. The tornado then moved east, south of the downtown St. James area and intensified. F2 to F3 damage occurred with a 200 to 300-yard damage path. Several homes and farm buildings were severely damaged or destroyed. Further north, severe thunderstorms produced many tornadoes around central Illinois. The most intense tornado touched down in Montgomery County south of Farmersville and moved into southwest Christian County. One person was killed, when a semi-trailer was overturned at a rest area on I-55. Across eastern parts of the state, high winds up to 70 mph caused damage to trees, power lines, and some buildings. The Mattoon area also reported flooding from these storms, producing $3 million dollars damage. 
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2 June 1889 → A great flood on the Potomac River in Washington, DC flooded streets and took out a span of Long Bridge (today's 14th Street Bridge). The flood stage reached was not equaled until 1936.
2 June 1924 → Despite a forecast calling for thunderstorms, a Weather Bureau scientist and assistant manned a hot-air balloon for the purpose of taking meteorological upper atmosphere readings with the instruments they brought along. The balloon got too close to a thunderstorm, and both men were killed by lightning.
2 June 1967 → San Francisco had its record one-day June rainfall with 1.34".
2 June 1980 → Edwin Robinson from Falmouth, ME had been blind and partially deaf since a truck accident in 1971. After being struck by lightning on this date, his hearing and sight returned. It also caused his bald head to grow hair.
2 June 1998 → A swarm of tornadoes swept across southern Ontario leaving a band of destruction and several injuries. The Norwich Anglican Church lost its parish hall and steeple. 
http://www.weather.gov/abr/Ths_Day_in_Weather_History_June_02
2 June 1917: The temperature at Tribune, Kansas dipped to 30 degrees to establish a state record for the month of June. 
2 June 1921: Heavy rains caused flash flooding over the southeastern portion of Colorado. The flooding cost the lives of 100 people and millions of dollars in property damage. Click HERE for more information.  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/flash-floods-ravage-colorado
2 June 1998: Frostburg, Maryland on June 2, 1998 at 9:45 PM - This was part of a killer outbreak of tornadoes that moved southeast from Pennsylvania. The tornado entered Garrett County, Maryland striking the town of Finzel. It then moved up and over Big Savage Mountain in Allegany County and ripped through the northern portion of Frostburg. It reached its peak strength as it crossed the ridge. Winds were estimated between 210 and 250 mph (F4 on the Fujita Tornado Damage Scale). This was the first tornado to "officially" be rated a "F4" in the State of Maryland. The National Weather Service adopted the Fujita Damage Scale in 1973. The total damage path of the Frostburg tornado was over 25 miles long (8 miles in Allegany County) and up to a half mile wide. Along most of its path it was producing winds over 125 mph (F2 or stronger). The damage path was continuous as it moved up and down over 2000-foot mountain ridges. The fact that no one was killed in Maryland was attributed to 5 to 10 minutes warning that was well communicated to people in Frostburg over television, radio, scanners, telephones and sirens. People took quick action to move to their basements. A mother and child rode out the storm as it destroyed their house hiding under a table in the basement. They were shaken but unharmed. A jacket from Frostburg homes was found 25 miles away. A diploma was found near Winchester, Virginia, 60 miles away and a bill was found near Sterling Virginia (about 100 miles away). Click HERE for more information.  http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/Storms/Frostburg.htm
2 June 1889: The same storm that caused the historic dam failure in Johnstown, PA, also affected Washington, D.C. The streets and reservations in the center of the city and all the wharves and streets along the riverfront were under water. Pennsylvania Avenue was flooded from 2nd to 10th Streets. The Potomac River crested at the Aqueduct Bridge at 19.5 feet on June 2. Additionally, damage occurred on Rock Creek, with the Woodley Lane Bridge washed away. Considerable damage occurred to machinery plants and material at the Navy Yard.
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Flooding on Pennsylvania Ave on June 2, 1889. The photograph is courtesy of the Library of Congress.
2 June 1917: The temperature at Tribune, Kansas dipped to 30 degrees to establish a state record for the month of June. 
2 June 1998: Frostburg, Maryland on June 2, 1998, at 9:45 PM - This was part of a killer outbreak of tornadoes that moved southeast from Pennsylvania. The storm entered Garrett County, Maryland striking the town of Finzel. It then moved up and over Big Savage Mountain in Allegany County and ripped through the northern portion of Frostburg. It reached its peak strength as it crossed the ridge. Winds were estimated between 210 and 250 mph (F4 on the Fujita Tornado Damage Scale). This was the first tornado to "officially" be rated an "F4" in the State of Maryland. The National Weather Service adopted the Fujita Damage Scale in 1973. The total damage path of the Frostburg tornado was over 25 miles long (8 miles in Allegany County) and up to a half mile wide. Along most of its path, it was producing winds over 125 mph (F2 or stronger). The damage path was continuous as it moved up and down over 2000-foot mountain ridges. The fact that no one was killed in Maryland was attributed to 5 to 10 minutes warning that was well communicated to people in Frostburg over television, radio, scanners, telephones and sirens. People took quick action to move to their basements. A mother and child rode out the storm as it destroyed their house hiding under a table in the basement. They were shaken but unharmed. A jacket from Frostburg homes was found 25 miles away. A diploma was found near Winchester, Virginia, 60 miles away and a bill was found near Sterling Virginia (about 100 miles away).
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Above is a map of the tornado tracks from this severe weather event. 
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3 June 1860 → One of the worst tornadoes of the 19th Century brought death and destruction along its 80 mile path from Cedar County, IA to Lee County, IL, and came to be known as the Great Tornado of the Northwest. Camanche, IA, on the Mississippi River, was hardest hit with much of the town ruined. A boat passing by on the river was struck, resulting in 23 fatalities and the few survivors finding themselves on the Illinois shore with no recollection of how they got there. The tornado was 3/4 of a mile wide and took a total of 92 lives. It was just one of several immense tornadoes that hit Iowa and northern Illinois that day.
3 June 1902 → A tornado said to be 1.8 miles wide swept through Javaugues, France. There was only one fatality.
3 June 1921 → A cloudburst near Pikes Peak sent a high wave of water down the Arkansas River into Pueblo, CO. At least 70 people were killed and $20 million dollars damage was done in Pueblo.
3 June 1959 → Thunderstorms in northwest Kansas produced up to 18 inches of hail in Selden. Crops were completely destroyed, and total damage from the storm was about half a million dollars. Hail fell for 85 minutes, while the temperature dropped from near 80 degrees prior to the storm to 38 degrees at the height of the storm.   http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/087/mwr-087-08-0301.pdf
3 June 1989 → The Skydome opened in Toronto, Ontario during a heavy rain event. Despite the weather conditions, the Ontario Premier opened the roof with a laser beam device and everyone seated in the lower levels was drenched.
http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_June_03
3 June 1860: Iowa's infamous Comanche Tornado, likely an F5 storm, kills 92 and injures 200. Every home and business is destroyed. It was one of the most damaging families of tornadoes to ever to strike the US and resulted in more farm fatalities than any other tornado except for the Tri-State tornado. Click HERE for more details.  http://retroiowa.presspublisher.org/issue-printer/august-2012
3 June 1993: Early morning severe thunderstorms dumped huge hailstones across northern Oklahoma. Hail up to 6 inches in diameter in Enid went through roofs of homes, damaged three jets at Vance Air Force Base, and did $500,000 in damage at a car dealership. Winds gusts reached 70 mph at Vance Air Force Base as well. Hail damage to the wheat crop was estimated at $70 million dollars.
3 June 1997: It was a chilly day in the East. The high temperature at Philadelphia International Airport was only 59 degrees, tying a record-low maximum for the date set back in 1881. The temperature at Middletown, Pennsylvania only rose to 58 degrees, breaking the record-low maximum for the date of 59 degrees set back in 1915. Washington, DC only reached 58 degrees, breaking the old record-low maximum of 59 set back in 1915. Central Park in New York City only reached 61 degrees. 
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4 June 1871 → The U.S.'s 15 minute rainfall record was set in Galveston, TX at 3.95" as the season's first tropical storm came onshore. Galveston would be struck by another tropical storm just five days later.
4 June 1944 → Weather conditions forced Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower to postpone the invasion of France that had been scheduled for June 5.
4 June 1958 → Severe storms swept through northwest Wisconsin. A half-mile wide F5 tornado moved at 52 mph from south of Woodville to east of Colfax. 20 people were killed. Also, an F4 tornado took four lives at Chippewa Falls, and another F4 killed four people near the small communities of Boyd and Stanley.
4 June 1980 → Edwin Robinson from Falmouth, ME had been blind and partially deaf since a truck accident in 1971. After being struck by lightning on this date, his hearing and sight returned.
4 June 1825: A severe storm of tropical origin swept up the Atlantic Coast during the first week of June 1825 with reports of major damage from Florida to New York City. Shipping logs told of a disturbance at Santo Domingo on May 28th and at Cuba on June 1st. Gales were reported at St. Augustine, Florida on the 2nd. The Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald reported "undiminished violence" from the gale force winds for 27 hours, ending on June 4th. The effect of the storm reached well inland. Washington had a cold, heavy rain all day on the 4th with high winds laying the crops in the vicinity. The wind also tore up trees by the roots in front of the State House in Philadelphia. This storm impacted the New Jersey Coast and the Long Island area as well with high winds and a two foot storm surge. A Columbian frigate was driven ashore as were many smaller boats. The largest loss of life occurred along the Long Island shore when a schooner capsized. The entire crew of seven was loss.
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5 June 1805 → A family of tornadoes tracked from southeast Missouri across southern Illinois, and may have moved into Indiana. The family crossed the Mississippi River about 20 miles south of St. Louis. Fish were "scattered all over the prairie" on the Illinois side of the river. Some pine tree tops, not native to that area of Illinois, were believed to have been blown in from at least 50 miles away. The damage path was 3/4 of a mile wide.
5 June 1905 → An estimated F5 tornado moved through Tuscola and Sanilac counties in the thumb of Michigan. The tornado moved from Colling to McGregor. The worst of the damage was near Shabbona where at least three farms were destroyed. Five deaths and 40 injuries resulted from the tornado.
5 June 1908 → An tornado moved due north near Carleton, NE, inflicting F5 damage on area farms. Five members of the Shively family were killed as their farm vanished.
5 June 1916 → A tornado struck the town of Warren, AR killing 83 persons. There were 125 deaths that day in a tornado outbreak across Missouri and Arkansas.
5 June 2001 → Though Tropical Storm Allison barely reached tropical storm status, the very slow movement of the storm along the Texas coast resulted in incredible amounts of rain. Over 40 inches of rain fell near Houston, and two feet of rain drenched southern Louisiana. It was the U.S.'s costliest tropical storm to date. 
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/allison2001.html
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/allison.html
5 June 1976: When water began leaking from Idaho's new Teton Dam, there seemed to be no cause for alarm. On this date, warnings were frantic that the dam was about to break. As workers tried to shore up the crumbling dam, it crumbled shortly after 11 AM, sending 180 billion gallons of water pouring through Teton Canyon. 11 people lost their lives, but the toll would have been much higher if the dam had failed at night and residents had been asleep. Click HERE for more information.  http://www.usbr.gov/pn/about/Teton.html
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Image Courtesy from the Bureau of Reclamation
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6 June 1906 → A large tornado outbreak struck Minnesota and Wisconsin. The worst twister was an F4 that crossed the Mississippi River and killed four people. A child was carried for half a mile.
6 June 1907 → An F4 tornado, the only strong tornado of the day, hit Washington County, IL. Of the four fatalities, two people were killed as they were running form their home to their storm shelter.
6 June 1931 → Near Pender, NE, an F2 tornado destroyed a barn that had been destroyed by a previous tornado less than three years earlier. Another Nebraska twister on this day killed 600 pigs west of Sioux City.
6 June 1981 → 500-800 people were killed in Bihar, India when a train plunged from a bridge into a flooded river. The train may have been blown by strong winds or washed away by flash flooding.
6 June 1816: The temperature reached 92 degrees at Salem, MA during an early heat wave, but then plunged 49 degrees in 24 hours to commence the famous "year without a summer". Snow fell near Quebec City, Quebec Canada from the 6th through the 10th and accumulated up to a foot with "drifts reaching the axel trees of carriages". 
6 June 1894: One of the greatest floods in U.S. history occurred as the Willamette River overflowed to inundate half of the business district of Portland, Oregon. The river crested at 33.5 feet, the worst flood ever recorded in the city. Click HERE for more information.
http://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/willamette_flood_1894_/#.VXMQ5C6w3ka
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3rd St., Portland, between Washington and Burnside during 1894 Willamette.
Image Courtesy of the Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Library
6 Jun 1944 D-Day invasion and weather  
http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/projects/era-clim/d-day-analyses
https://medium.com/@wwnorton/the-weather-on-d-day-85ea0491a14f
6 Jun 1912 -- The largest eruption of the 20th century occurred as Novarupta Volcano erupted in Alaska near Mt. Katmai. 
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs075-98/
6 Jun 1816: The temperature reached 92 degrees at Salem, MA during an early heat wave, but then plunged 49 degrees in 24 hours to commence the famous "year without a summer". Snow fell near Quebec City, Quebec Canada from the 6th through the 10th and accumulated up to a foot with "drifts reaching the axel trees of carriages". 
6 Jun 1894: One of the greatest floods in U.S. history occurred as the Willamette River overflowed to inundate half of the business district of Portland, Oregon. The river crested at 33.5 feet, the worst flood ever recorded in the city. Click HERE for more information.
http://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/willamette_flood_1894_/#.V1D1-76PvS-
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3rd St., Portland, between Washington and Burnside during 1894 Willamette.
Image Courtesy of the Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Library
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7 June 1816 → A June snow punctuated the Year Without A Summer in the northeastern U.S. Danville, VT reported drifts of snow and sleet 20 inches deep. Flurries were observed as far south as Boston. 
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/car/Newsletter/htm_format_articles/climate_corner/yearwithoutsummer_lf.htm
7 June 1936 → Idaho's deadliest tornado, an F3, killed two people north of Ruebens. A house and a barn were leveled, and the water was removed from a small pond.
7 June 1998 → On this date, the high temperature at Barrow, AK, on the Arctic Ocean, rose to a record 51 degrees with a gusty land breeze.
7 June 1692: A massive earthquake strikes Port Royal in Jamaica, killing some 3,000 people. Click HERE for more information. 
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquake-destroys-jamaican-pirate-haven
7 June 1995: Classic supercell thunderstorms spawned 21 tornadoes in the north Texas Panhandle. Five of the tornadoes were rated F4 on the Fujita scale, one which tracked through the center of Pampa injuring 7 people and causing $30 million in damages. The Project Vortex team (20 vehicles, including a state of the art truck-mounted Doppler Radar, and two P3 aircraft) were all over the storms, collecting an incredible storm dynamics, structure, and environment data set, on the last day of the two-year funded project no less. The team witnessed one of the F4 tornadoes near Allison, and said it was one of biggest and meanest appearing tornadoes they had ever seen. At Crane, TX, four-inch diameter hail fell for 10 minutes.
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8 June 1816 → Snow fell near Quebec City over a five-day period accumulating to 12 inches with "drifts reaching the axles of carriages" during the infamous Year Without A Summer. Montreal reported snow squalls.
8 June 1953 → An F5 tornado obliterated homes on the north side of Flint, MI. The funnel was up to half a mile wide, resulting in 116 dead and 844 injured. It was the last tornado to kill more than 100 people until May 22, 2011 at Joplin, Missouri.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/1953beecher/
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/?n=event_2011may22_survey 
8 June 1966 → An F5 tornado devastated much of Topeka, KS. 3000 homes were damaged and Washburn University was ripped apart. The tornado also hit Burnetts Mound, which, according to legend, protected Topeka from tornadoes. The tornado gutted a 10-story building, and high winds tore a copper panel from the State Capitol.  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/top/events/66tornado.php
8 June 1971 → A tornado was caught on 16mm film for the first time, at Corn, OK.
8 June 1974 → At 1:42 pm a tornado touched down a just southwest of the Oklahoma City National Weather Service office. It moved to the northeast, immediately striking the office. Along the rest of the 9-mile track, nearly 700 homes were damaged by the F3 twister.
8 June 1984 → As part of a massive tornado outbreak in the Upper Midwest, an F5 twister ripped 90% of Barneveld, WI to shreds just after midnight. Of the town's 18 business and public buildings, 17 were destroyed. Nine people were killed along the 36 mile long path. 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/?n=barneveldf5tornado  old
http://www.weather.gov/mkx/060884-barneveld-tor new
8 June 2001: Tropical Storm Allison hits Houston, Texas, for the second time in three days. Louisiana and southern Texas were inundated with rain. Baton Rouge received 18 inches over just a couple of days. Some portions of Texas racked up 36 inches by June 11. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel. Click HERE for more information from the NOAA Satellite and Information Service.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tropical-storm-allison-wreaks-havoc
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/allison.html
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/GFX/allison1.gif
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9 June 1953 → An F4 tornado hit Worcester, MA causing 94 fatalities. The tornado touched down in Petersham, traveled through Worcester, and on to Southborough. Debris was carried eastward and fell in the Boston area. About 4000 houses and buildings were destroyed, totaling more than $52 million in damages.  http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/papers/WorcesterTornado53_files/WorcesterTornado53.html
9 June 1972 → 10 to 15 inches of rain fell in about ten hours on the Black Hills above Rapid City, SD. Rainfall rates up to 2 inches per hour caused man-made Canyon Lake to rise 12 feet between 9pm and 10:45pm. At 10:45 the dam holding the lake gave way, resulting in a massive amount of water rushing down the canyon and into Rapid City. 238 people were killed, and 15 of the 23 bridges in and near the city were destroyed.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/unr/?n=1972_Flood
9 June 1984 → Over 400 people were killed by an F5 tornado that tore through the communities of Belyanitsy and Ivanovo in western Russia northeast of Moscow.
9 June 1991 → Two-day total rainfall topped 30 inches in the western India city of Bombay. It was the heaviest rainfall in four decades. 
9 June 1966: Hurricane Alma made landfall over the eastern Florida panhandle becoming the earliest hurricane to make landfall on the United States mainland.   http://history.nasa.gov/SP-168/p25d.jpg  NASA satellite image of Alma On June 12, 1966
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10 June 1752 → Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous kite experiment when he flew a kite in the middle of a thunderstorm to determine the nature of lightning (though there is considerable debate on how the experiment was actually carried out). It is important to note that you should not try this at home -- on average, lightning kills about 50 people per year in the U.S.
10 June 1872 → When the precursor to the National Weather Service was signed into law on February 9, 1870, only the Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast, and Great Lakes were included under its jurisdiction. Beginning today meteorological responsibilities were increased to cover the entire United States.
10 June 1923 → Montana's deadliest tornado, an F1, killed two men when a tree fell on them near Rivulet. The damage path was 12 miles long, though some portion of that may have been from straight-line winds.
10 June 1938 → Clyde, TX suffered the effects of what was likely an F5 tornado. Several homes completely vanished. One family tried to escape the tornado by car, and inadvertently drove right into it when the twister made a sudden unexpected turn. Four of the six occupants of the car were killed. The two survivors were found half a mile away from the rest of the bodies.
10 June 1957 → A dust devil at North Yarmouth, ME lifted an 800 pound chicken shelter into the air and carried it 25 feet. It landed upright with only slight damage.
10 June 1752: It is believed that this was the day Benjamin Franklin narrowly missed electrocution while flying a kite during a thunderstorm to determine if lightning is related to electricity. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.  
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/franklin-flies-kite-during-thunderstorm
10 June 1997: Flash Flooding occurred in many locations in Mississippi. Highway 80 and many other streets were flooded in and around Vicksburg. One person's car was engulfed by water, but the person was rescued. This event caused $300,000 dollars in property damages. Over 6 inches of rain fell in Lexington in a little over 3 hours. The heavy rain caused Bear Creek to over flow and flood much of the town of Lexington. 45 businesses were affected by the flooding and 30 of these suffered major losses. As many as 300 homes had water damage. This event caused $10 million dollars in property damages. Portions of Jones County experienced flash flooding as 3 inches of rain fell in just 1.5 hours over saturated ground.
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11 June 1915 → The twister that hit near Mullinville, KS was a mile wide multi-vortex tornado at the peak of its power that swept away an entire farm and threw a trio of mules a distance of two miles. Eight suction vortices were observed. However, the storm moved so slowly that people were able to get out of its way and there wasn't a single death or even an injury.  http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/bigs/wea00244.jpg
11 June 1939 → A tornado raced through Saint John in Quebec. Roofs were ripped off houses and trees were toppled. The storm damaged decorations erected for the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth on the 12th.
11 June 1997 → Cars were floating in intersections in Miami, FL after up to 10 inches of rain fell during the morning hours.
11 June 2010 → Thunderstorms repeatedly developed over the Albert Pike Recreation Area in Arkansas, dropping 5 to 7 inches of rain. A flash flood on the Little Missouri River swept through campgrounds, taking the lives of 20 people.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lzk/?n=rain0610.htm
11 June 1842: A late season snowstorm struck New England. Snow fell during the morning and early afternoon, accumulating to a depth of ten to twelve inches at Irasburg, Vermont. Berlin, New Hampshire was blanketed with eleven inches of snow during the day. Snow whitened the higher peaks of the Appalachians as far south as Maryland. The latest date for the occurrence of a general snowstorm in our period over northern New England and northern New York came in 1842 on the morning of 11 June. Zadock Thompson, professor of natural history and the Queen City's longtime weatherman, commented: "Snow during the forenoon's boards whitened and the mountains as white as in winter."
11 June 1990: One of the most costly hailstorms in U.S. history occurred as $625 million dollars of damage was caused along the Colorado Front Range from Colorado Springs to Estes Park. Golf to baseball sized hail fell along with heavy rain. 60 people were injured in the storm.
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12 June 1749 → Shortly after midnight a tornado roared out of the Mediterranean Sea and onto the Italian shore. It caused panic among the local population fearing it as a sign of the apocalypse, however Pope Benedict XIV assigned a local priest to study the phenomena. It was found that though tornadoes were rare, they were not unheard of and had happened before in that area.
12 June 1899 → A killer F5 tornado ripped through New Richmond, WI. Unfortunately, about 1000 extra people were in town for a circus. 117 people were killed and 200 were injured. 300 buildings were destroyed and a 3000 pound safe was carried a full block. 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/?n=newrichmond-tornado
12 June 2001 → A severe thunderstorm in Kandiyohi County, MN produced wind gusts of 119 mph and tennis-ball sized hail.
From http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_June_12
12 June 1915: An estimated F4 tornado moved northeast from northwest of Waterville, Iowa crossing the Mississippi River two miles south of Ferryville, Wisconsin. A man and his daughter were killed in one of three homes that were obliterated southwest of "Heytman", a small railroad station on the Mississippi River. 60 buildings and 8 homes were destroyed in Wisconsin. This tornado caused approximately $200,000 in damage. In addition to this tornado, another estimated F4 tornado moved northeast across Fayette and Clayton Counties in northeast Iowa. One farm was devastated, the house and barn leveled. Heavy machinery was thrown 300 yards. Clothing was carried two miles.
12 June 1948: The Columbia River Basin flood peaked on this date in the Northwest. The flood produced the highest water level in the basin since the flood there in 1894. The damage estimate for the 1948 flood was $101 million dollars and 75 lives were lost. Click HERE for a detailed report from the USGS.  http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/1080/report.pdf
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2012%2C%201948%20Columbia%20Basin%20Flooding.jpg
Check == http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1991: On June 12, 1991, the Mt. Pinatubo volcano in the Phillipines erupted. This caused the year without a summer the next year in 1992 across most of the U.S. Temperatures worldwide averaged 0.5C below normal, the greatest climate disruption from a volcano in the 20th century.
or from earlier version of http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
15 June 1991: The second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century began as Mt. Pinatubo injected 15 to 30 million tons of sulphur dioxide 100,000 feet into the atmosphere. 343 people were killed in the Philippines as a result of the eruptions and 200,000 were left homeless. Material from the eruption would spread around the globe, leading to climate changes worldwide as the sun's energy was blocked out and global temperatures cooled by as much as one degree Fahrenheit. 1992 was globally one of the coolest since the 1970s. Click HERE for more information from the USGS.   http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs113-97/
Image Courtesy from the USGS 
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2015%2C%201991%20Mt_%20Pinatubo.jpg
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13 June 1907 → The temperature at Tamarack, CA dipped to 2 degrees, the lowest reading on record in June for the U.S. After 42 inches of snow fell between the 10th and the 13th, the snow depth was 130 inches.
13 June 1968 → The 13 mile long path of an F5 tornado took it directly through Tracy, MN. Nine people were killed and 111 homes destroyed. Farms outside town were swept completely away, two of which had been hit by a tornado 44 years earlier.
13 June 1976 → A half-mile wide F5 tornado swallowed Jordan, IA. Fortunately there were no human fatalities, though hundreds of farm animals were killed.
13 June 1991 → Lightning struck a tree at the U.S. Open Golf Tournament in Chaska, MN. One spectator was killed, and 6 people were injured.
13 June 2007 → About 500 houses were damaged by a tornado in Trieu Son, Vietnam, south of Hanoi. Two people were killed.
http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_June_13  
See also http://www.sercc.com/node/171 
13 June 1972: Severe weather conditions over the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico begin to converge and form a tropical depression that would become Hurricane Agnes over the next two weeks. This hurricane affected most of the eastern United States with the northeast being the hardest hit with heavy rainfall. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hurricane-agnes-is-born
13 June 1976: A deadly tornado moved across parts of the southwestern Chicago, Illinois suburbs killing two people and injuring 23 others. The tornado, with winds over 200 mph moved from Lemont to Downers Grove causing $13 million dollars in damage when 89 homes were destroyed and another 90 were damaged. The tornado passed over the Argonne National Laboratory, peeling part of a roof off the building housing a nuclear reactor. The tornadoes movement was rather erratic moving southeast the north and finally turning northwest.
http://www.lemonthistorical.org/pics/1976tornado/index.html
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14 June 1903 → The "Heppner Disaster" occurred in Oregon and is the state's deadliest weather catastrophe. Thunderstorms in the hills sent a flood down Willow Creek, and a wall of water swept away a third of the town in minutes, killing 247 residents and causing 100 million dollars damage. There are no exact rainfall data available for this storm because the weather observing station was completely destroyed, drowning the observer and his entire family.  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/images/pqr/heppnerflood.jpg
See also http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/paststorms/index.php#top1 
14 June 1957 → An F4 tornado moved across the south and southeast sides of Springfield, IL. The tornado destroyed 25 homes and severely damaged 175 others; property damage was around $3 million. On the north side of town the storms produced a wind gust of 98 mph at Capital Airport, which still stands as Springfield's record wind speed. Two people died during the storm, with over 50 injured.
14 June 1990 → One of Ohio's deadliest flash floods hit the valley community of Shadyside when three to five inches of rain fell in less than 2 hours. Two creeks in the area roared out of their banks and claimed 26 lives and 80 homes.  http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/iln/shadyside.html
http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_June_14
14 June 1903: Major flash flooding along Willow Creek destroyed a large portion of Heppner, Oregon on this day. With a death toll of 247 people, it remains the deadliest natural disaster in Oregon.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2014%2C%201903%20Willow%20Creek%20Flood.jpg
Downtown Heppner during the flood 
http://www.heppnerchamber.com/flood1903
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15 June 1892 → An F5 tornado struck just north of the MN/IA border, killing 9. Large house timbers were found embedded in the ground three miles away from their foundations.
15 June 1912 → Creighton, MO was visited by an F5 tornado. Over one thousand head of livestock were killed in the area, along with five people. Two large homes were completely swept away.
15 June 1953 → Two boys were injured by a dust devil near Prescott, AZ. One of the boys suffered a black eye, and the other had two vertebrae fractured by wind-blown debris.
15 June 1980 → Several tornadoes struck the eastern German states of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. Eight people were killed.
15 June 1992 → A developing cumulus cloud broke through the cap in north central Kansas and exploded into a huge supercell thunderstorm. Between 4:15 and 8:35 pm, this supercell produced 39 tornadoes in north central Kansas, including 12 in Mitchell County and 9 in Osborne County. A farmer living south of Cawker City reported going to the basement in his farm home 5 different times and each time he came out of the basement, his farm had additional damage. He also reported that at one time, he counted 3 tornadoes on the ground and 4 funnels in the air. Damage to property in Mitchell County exceeded $12 million.
15 June 1987: Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the northwestern U.S. A tornado damaged five homes and destroyed a barn near Salmon, Idaho. It lifted a metal shed 100 feet into the air and deposited it 100 yards away. Hail an inch and a half in diameter caused ten million dollars damage to automobiles at Nampa, Idaho.
15 June 1991: The second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century began as Mt. Pinatubo injected 15 to 30 million tons of sulphur dioxide 100,000 feet into the atmosphere. 343 people were killed in the Philippines as a result of the eruptions and 200,000 were left homeless. Material from the eruption would spread around the globe, leading to climate changes worldwide as the sun's energy was blocked out and global temperatures cooled by as much as one degree Fahrenheit. 1992 was globally one of the coolest since the 1970s. Click HERE for more information from the USGS.   http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs113-97/
Image Courtesy from the USGS 
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2015%2C%201991%20Mt_%20Pinatubo.jpg
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16 June 1882 → Eyewitnesses near Dubuque, IA claimed two frogs hopped out of a melting hailstone after a thunderstorm.
16 June 1944 → A confused tornado in Sioux City, IA spun in one spot for 20 minutes. Then the tornado moved erratically as it made a u-turn and headed southeast for 3 miles.
16 June 1992 → Sixty-five tornadoes ravaged the central United States. In Minnesota alone 27 tornadoes touched down. An F5 tornado cut a 16 mile long path across Nobles and Murray Counties, leveling half of Chandler, killing 1 person and doing $27 million in damages.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fsd/?n=tor1992jun16
16 June 1806: Great American total solar eclipse occurred from California to Massachusetts with nearly five-minute in duration. Click HERE for more information.   http://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/19th-century/ 
Report of the eclipse in the Hampshire Federalist, July 8, 1806. Collection of Michael Zeiler   http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2016%2C%20Great%20Solar%20Eclipse.jpg
See also http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=18060616  and http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar.html
16 June 1896: A tsunami ravages the coast of Japan killing between 22,000 and 27,000 people. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tsunami-ravages-japanese-coast 
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17 June 1882 → A tornado, or family of tornadoes, traveled more than 200 miles across the state of Iowa killing 130 persons. The storm traveled at nearly 60 mph and began about 90 miles west of Grinnell, struck the town and its college around sunset, killing 60, and caused more than half a million dollars damage.  
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOAA_related_docs/history/tornadoes/torn19b.gif
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOAA_related_docs/history/tornadoes/torn22b.gif
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOAA_related_docs/history/tornadoes/torn31b.gif
17 June 1944 → What appears to have been an F5 tornado crossed from South Dakota into Minnesota. Some farms were swept away so completely that there wasn't even any debris left. Eight people were killed. The twister was nearly a mile wide and was on the ground for 30 miles.
17 June 1971 → Hurricane Bridget sunk the flagship of the Admiral of the Mexican Navy as it passed off the coast of Mexico near Acapulco.
17 June 1988 → Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds across Georgia and the Carolinas. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Eden, NC.
17 June 2010 → At least 20 tornadoes roared across North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin between 4pm and 8pm, including three EF4s. 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fgf/?n=20100617_tor_main
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/mpx/StormReports/17June2010.pdf
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=jun1710
17 June 1946: The third deadliest tornado in Canadian history struck southwestern Ontario from Windsor to Tecumseh. 17 people were killed and hundreds injured. Damage was conservatively estimated at $1.5 million dollars.
17 June 2009: A tornado leveled a house knocks down power poles and overturns about a dozen railroad cars in Aurora, Nebraska. The tornado is rated EF2, with winds between 111 and 135 mph. Click HERE for more information from the National Weather Service in Hastings, Nebraska.
http://www.weather.gov/gid/28856 
 http://www.weather.gov/images/gid/events/2009/jun/28851/images/0617092110.jpg  Image Courtesy of storm chaser Jeff Gilchrist
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18 June 1995 → In Thunder Bay, Ontario the mercury soared to record high of 102 degrees.
18 June 2001 → The town of Siren, WI was hit by an F3 tornado. Unfortunately their tornado sirens were out of service due to a lightning strike. Three people were killed.   http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dlh/?n=010618_severewx
18 June 1958: Hailstones up to four inches in diameter killed livestock as a storm passed from Joliet to Belfry in Carbon County, Montana.
18 June 1972: Hurricane Agnes was one of the largest June hurricanes on record. The system strengthened into a tropical storm during the night of the 15th and a hurricane on the 18th as it moved northward in the Gulf of Mexico. Click HERE for more information from the Weather Prediction Center. http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/agnes1972.html 
 http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/agnes1972filledrainblk.gif
18 June 1958: Hailstones up to four inches in diameter killed livestock as a storm passed from Joliet to Belfry in Carbon County, Montana.
18 June 1972: Hurricane Agnes was one of the largest June hurricanes on record. The system strengthened into a tropical storm during the night of the 15th and a hurricane on the 18th as it moved northward in the Gulf of Mexico. Click HERE for more information from the Weather Prediction Center.
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/agnes1972filledrainblk.gif
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19 June 1588 → A powerful storm heavily damaged the Spanish Armada off the northwest tip of Spain. The Armada would continue to be weakened by storms, as well as attacks from the English, and would crumble before the end of the year.
19 June 2000 → A rare thunderstorm occurred at Barrow, AK around 10:30pm.
19 June 2012 → Intense thunderstorms moved repeatedly over Duluth, MN, dropping 8 to 10 inches of rain on the city and surrounding areas overnight on the 19th-20th. Catastrophic flooding resulted, resulting in sinkholes and widespread damage. The city zoo was flooded, drowning several animals.

See ftp://hdsc.nws.noaa.gov/pub/hdsc/data/aep/201206_Minnesota/2_Duluth%202012.pdf
for annual exceedance probabilities (AEP)  map for Duluth, Minnesota, 19-20 June 2012 (24-hour duration) for selected significant storm events for which observed precipitation amounts for at least one duration have AEP of 1/500 or less over a large area. 
(See http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hdsc/aep_storm_analysis/index.html )
19 June 1794: A violent tornado commenced west of the Hudson River in New York. The tornado traveled through Poughkeepsie, then crossed the border into Connecticut where it traveled through the towns of New Milford, Waterbury, North Haven, and Branford. It then continued on into Long Island Sound. The tornado did extensive damage and the funnel was reported by one observer to look like the "aurora borealis".
19 June 2004: Annette Island, Alaska set an all-time record high temperature of 93 degrees. Since record keeping began in 1941, Annette Island has seen 90 degree temperatures four times.
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20 June 1928 → A farmer from Greensburg, KS looked up into the heart of a tornado. He described it as "rotating clouds lit with constant flashes of lightning and a strong gassy odor with a screaming, hissing sound."
20 June 1957 → An F5 tornado in North Dakota caused great destruction in Fargo. Over 1300 homes were destroyed or damaged over a 9 mile path. There were 10 fatalities and 103 injuries.   http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fgf/?n=fargojune1957f5
20 June 1972 → From the 20th to the 25th former Hurricane Agnes, in combination with a mid-latitude low pressure area, deluged Pennsylvania and New York with torrential rains resulting in one of the most costly floods in U.S. history. In the Middle Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania, rainfall amounts were generally 8 to 12 inches, with up to 19 inches in Schuylkill County. At Wilkes-Barre the dike was breached, flooding much of the town. Flooding resulted in over 120 deaths and $3.1 billion in damage.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ctp/features/historical/agnes.php
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/nerfc/historical/jun1972.htm
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/agnes1972filledrainwhite.gif
June 20, 1989: A meteorological "hot flash" hit Pierre, SD. Descending air from collapsing thunderstorms caused the temperature in Pierre to warm from 86 degrees at midnight to 96 at 1 a.m. and to 104 at 2 a.m. Pierre's record high for the date of 105 degrees in 1974.
20 June 2001: Large hail driven by strong thunderstorm winds raked Denver International and front-range airports. Wind gusting to 54 mph along with hail as large 2 inches in diameter punched at least 14 thousand holes and cracks in the flat roofs of several buildings at Denver International Airport. In addition, 93 planes and hundreds of cars were damaged. About 100 flights had to be canceled stranding 1500 travelers. The Airport was completely shut down for about 20 minutes. The storm also damaged ground avoidance radar used to track planes on the ground to prevent collisions. Damage was estimated at 10 million dollars not counting the damage to the 93 airliners. The storm moved south and struck Watkins Colorado with hail as large as 2 1/2 inches in diameter and winds gusting to 60 mph. At least 30 private planes at front-range airport were destroyed.
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21 June 1942 → The temperature reached 129 degrees in Tirat Tsvi, Israel.
21 June 1972 → An F3 tornado destroyed two homes and several businesses in Eloy, AZ. Also, an F2 tornado damaged several hundred homes from northeast Phoenix into Paradise Valley.
21 June 1987 → A tornado destroyed 57 mobile homes at the Chateam Estates trailer park northwest of Detroit, MI killing 1 person and injuring 6 others. Total damage was estimated at 1.7 million dollars.
21 June 1996 → Severe storms raked southeastern Lower Michigan. Among the three tornadoes that touched down, an EF3 produced $5,000,000 damage in the town of Frankenmuth. Flash flooding was widespread, resulting in a fatality when a motorist attempted to cross a flooded bridge over the Kawkawlin River.
From http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_June_21
21 June 1987: A tornado destroyed 57 mobile homes at the Chateam Estates trailer park northwest of Detroit, Michigan killing one person and injuring six others. Total damage was estimated at 1.7 million dollars. Thunderstorms over Lower Michigan also drenched the Saginaw Valley with up to 4.5 inches of rain in less than six hours.
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22 June 1919 → In Fergus Falls, MN, an F5 (estimated) tornado killed 57 people and destroyed 400 buildings, including 228 homes. Lumber was carried 10 miles, and a blank check was found 60 miles away.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fgf/?n=fergusfallsf5
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/047/mwr-047-06-0392.pdf

22 June 1947 → The greatest short-term rainfall in the world was 12 inches of rain in 42 minutes in Holt, MO.
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/082/mwr-082-02-0050.pdf
22 June 1981 → A young woman from Lubbock, TX was struck by lightning. The bolt struck just above her right shoulder near her neck, and passed right to left through her body, causing her tennis shoes to explode and lifting her 24 inches into the air.
22 June 2003 → A hailstone 18.75 inches in circumference fell on Aurora, NE. It is the largest hailstone (by circumference) ever recorded in the U.S.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/gid/?n=jun-22-2003megastorm
from http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_June_22
22 June 1919: The second deadliest tornado in Minnesota's history occurred on this day. 59 people were killed as an estimated F5 tornado ripped through the town of Fergus Falls, Minnesota. 400 buildings were destroyed. A blank check was found over 60 miles away and lumber was carried 10 miles. Of the 59 victims, 35 were guests of the Grand Hotel.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2022%2C%201916%20Fergus%20Falls%20Tornado.jpg
Digging through the debris of the Grand Hotel. Image from Minnesota in the Mail: A Postcard History
22 June 2003: A hailstone measuring 6.5 inches in diameter with a circumference of 17.3 inches and weighing 1.33 pounds falls in Aurora, Nebraska. The National Weather Service reports this is the second largest hailstone ever documented in the U.S. by weight, and the largest by size at that time. The world's largest hailstone NOW was produced from storms in South Dakota; 8" in diameter and 1.9375 lbs. on July 23, 2010.
largest hailstone, in terms of diameter and circumference, in United States history” 
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2022%2C%202003%20Aurora%20Hailstone.jpg
Image Courtesy of the National Centers for Environmental Information
22 June 2007: The first officially documented F5 tornado in Canada struck the town of Elie, Manitoba population 500 people. Video of the storm showed a heavy van being whirled through the air. The tornado also tossed an almost intact house several hundred yards through the air before it disintegrated. The tornado traveled across the landscape for about 35 minutes covering 3.4 miles and leaving a damage path 984 feet wide. Wind speeds in the tornado were later estimated at 260-316 mph.  Fortunately no fatalities or serious injuries were reported.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2022%2C%202007%20Elie%20Manitoba%20Tornado.jpg
http://media.winnipegfreepress.com/images/2026288.jpg  
Image Courtesy from the Winnipeg FreePress
2003: A hailstone measuring 6.5 inches in diameter with a circumference of 17.3 inches and weighing 1.33 pounds falls in Aurora, Nebraska. The National Weather Service reports this is the second largest hailstone ever documented in the U.S. by weight, and the largest by size at that time. The world's largest hailstone NOW was produced from storms in South Dakota; 8" in diameter and 1.9375 lbs. on July 23, 2010.
Image Courtesy of the National Centers for Environmental Information
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23 June 1944 → Four tornadoes killed 153 persons and caused five million dollars damage in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland. The tornadoes moved southeast along parallel paths flattening everything in their way. The town of Shinnston, WV was leveled and was left with the majority of the causalities.
23 June 1951 → Hail accumulated twelve inches deep in El Dorado, KS.
23 June 1982 → At the South Pole Weather Station the temperature fell to an all-time record low (for that location) of -117 degrees. 
23 June 1944: The deadliest and strongest tornado for the state of West Virginia occurred on this day. The Shinnston tornado that ravaged a path of destruction from Shinnston to Cheat Mountain, then on to Maryland and ending in Pennsylvania in the Allegheny Mountains, is the only twister to produce F4 damage in West Virginia. This tornado killed 103 people. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel. 
 http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tornadoes-hit-west-virginia-and-pennsylvania
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2023%2C%201944%20West%20Virgina%20tornado.jpg
http://www.wvculture.org/history/shinnston/shinnston2.jpg  
Image Courtesy of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History
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23 June 1950  Airplane Disappears Over Lake Michigan
From http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/thisday/index.asp?month=6&day=23&submit_form=Go
On this date Northwest Airlines flight 2501 disappeared over Lake Michigan. Flying from New York to Seattle with a stopover in Minneapolis, 58 passengers and crew were lost over the lake, leaving few clues save for small bits of debris, as to what happened. The loss was the largest loss of human life in a commercial aviation accident up to that point. [Source: Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates]
Also http://michiganshipwrecks.org/shipwrecks-2/shipwreck-categories/airplane-losses-lost-and-found/northwest-airlines-flight-2501-dc4
Thunderstorm activity was moving across Lake Michigan toward western Lower Michigan that evening.  
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24 June 1924 → Six men at a rock quarry south of Winston-Salem, NC sought shelter from a thunderstorm. Unfortunately, their chosen shelter contained dynamite, which was soon ignited by a nearby lightning strike. The men were killed instantly by the ensuing explosion.
24 June 1967 → An F4 tornado struck Pommereuil, France, killing two. It was described by a resident: "I have known two wars and yet I have never seen such a thing. It looked like the end of the world; what else can you say when you see cars flying over roofs, entire houses lifted off the ground and sinking into a pond, girders taking off like wisps of straw, amidst a roar and whistles of doom. I will never forget this nightmarish vision." That same day, an F5 tornado struck Palluel, France that demolished 17 houses and drove wood fragments into the trunks of trees. Eight died in this storm.
24 June 1975 → Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encountered a strong microburst near a severe thunderstorm on approach into JFK International Airport in New York City. After descending sharply and striking several approach lights, the aircraft burst into flames and crashed. Of the 124 people aboard, 113 were killed.  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=downburst
24 June 1998 → An F2 tornado struck the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant near Oak Harbor, OH, doing minor damage. The plant was shut down for two weeks.
24 June 1975: An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed at JFK airport in New York City. 113 of the 124 people on board the aircraft died. Researcher Theodore Fujita studied the incident and discovered that the crash was caused by a microburst. His research led to improved air safety. The tower never experienced the microburst, which was held back by a sea-breeze front. The plane crashed 2,400 feet short of the runway. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eastern-flight-66-crashes-at-j-f-k 

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25 June 1960 → A tornado struck the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico and destroyed the chapel and some camping facilities. 34 people were injured.
25 June 1977 → "The Human Lightning Conductor," park ranger Roy C. Sullivan, was struck by lightning for the seventh time. He was first hit in 1942, then again in 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1976, and today in 1977.
25 June 1988 → Until this date, Erie, PA was one of the few non-mountainous spots in the lower 48 states where the temperature had never reached 100 degrees. In addition to Erie reaching 100, other record highs that were set included 101 at Rockford, IL, 103 at Chicago, 104 at South Bend, IN, 106 at Fort Wayne, IN, and 104 at Detroit.
25 June 2012 → Tropical Storm Debby dropped colossal amounts of rain on northern and central Florida. Curtis Mill, in the Panhandle near Tallahassee, received 28.78" of rain in about two days!  http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/debby2012.html
From http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_June_25 
25 June 1957: Hurricane Audrey moved northward, slowly strengthening until the 26th. At that time, a strong upper level trough led to its acceleration and the hurricane deepened rapidly on its final approach to the Texas/Louisiana border. Audrey became the strongest hurricane on record for the month of June upon landfall, as it reached category four strength. Its acceleration was unanticipated, and despite hurricane warnings in place, 418 people perished in the storm, mainly across southwest Louisiana. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel. 
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hurricane-audrey-hits-gulf-coast
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Audrey_before_landfall.gif
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2025%2C%201957%20Hurricane%20Audrey.jpg
This is a radar image of Hurricane Audrey before landfill. Image Courtesy of NOAA
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26 June 1959 → The NWS's first WSR-57 weather surveillance radar was commissioned at Miami, FL. It would be destroyed on August 24, 1992 by Hurricane Andrew.
26 June 1993 → During the Great Flood of 1993, the Mississippi River at St. Louis exceeded flood stage late on June 26 and briefly dropped below flood stage on September 13, a total duration above flood stage of 80 days.
26 June 1807: Lightning strikes a gunpowder factory in the small European country of Luxembourg, killing more than 300 people. The Luxembourg disaster may have been the most deadly lightning strike in history.
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27 June 1953 → A tornado produced F5 damage in Cass and Adair counties in Iowa killing one person and injuring two others as it cut a 10-mile path across rural areas. A board was driven into a tree.
27 June 1957 → Hurricane Audrey crossed the coastline just west of Cameron, LA as a Category 4. The hurricane underwent extreme intensification just prior to landfall with the central pressure falling from 973 to 930 millibars in only 5 hours. Sustained winds reached 150 mph and a 12 foot storm surge flooded the bayou areas. 381 people were killed and the total damage was over 150 million dollars.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/?n=audrey
http://www.history.noaa.gov/stories_tales/hurricaneaudrey.html
27 June 1978 → Volunteer firefighters in Quebec responded to what they believed to be a forest fire. However, when they arrived at the scene they found that the smoke kept moving away from them. It was then that they realized they were chasing a tornado. It was part of an outbreak that included an F2 at Masson.
27 June 2011 → A heat burst from dying thunderstorms caused the temperature at Owensboro, KY to shoot up from the 80s to 102 degrees.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=heat_burst
27 June 1995: The Madison County Flood on June 27, 1995 was the worst flash flood that Virginia had seen since the remnants of Camille dropped up to 30 inches of rain one night in Nelson County in August 1969. The Nelson County flood ranks as one of the nation's worst flash floods of this century. The floods and landslides led to the death of 117 people. Click HERE for more information from the National Weather Service.  http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/Historic_Events/StormsOfCentury.html 
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2027%2C%201995%20Virgina%20Flash%20Flood.jpg 
map of rainfall totals Madison county flood, June 21-28 1996

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28 June 1778 → The Battle of Monmouth in central New Jersey was fought in sweltering heat. The temperature was measured to be 96 degrees in the shade. More casualties were from the heat than from bullets.   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/NJ/200003296.html
28 June 1924 → A tornado, probably an F4, took an odd path as it touched down in Sandusky, OH, then moved out over Lake Erie for 24 miles, and then came back on shore at Vermilion and Lorain, OH. Because the tornado went through downtown Lorain, relatively few homes were destroyed in that city but there was great destruction to businesses. There were 85 fatalities from Sandusky to the tornado's end east of Lorain, some of which may have occurred when the tornado hit several boats out on Lake Erie.  http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/052/mwr-052-06-0309.pdf
28 June 1960 → Dunmor, KY (Muhlenberg County) recorded 10.40" of rain in 24 hours. This stood as Kentucky's record 1-day rainfall until 10.48" fell at Louisville on March 1, 1997.  
(Note: NCDC  http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/scec/records does not recognize the new record in Louisville.)
28 June 1975 → Golfer Lee Trevino was struck by lightning during the Western Open in Chicago. He had burn marks on his shoulder and had permanent damage to his lower back.

28 June 1778: The Battle of Monmouth in central New Jersey was fought in sweltering heat. The temperature was 96 degrees in the shade, and there were more casualties from the heat than from bullets.
28 June 1924: An estimated F4 tornado struck the towns of Sandusky and Lorain, killing 85 people and injuring over 300. This is the deadliest tornado ever in Ohio history. Click HERE for some images from Ohio Historical Society.  http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p267401coll36/id/19796 

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29 June 1904 → Two tornadoes moved through Moscow, Russia, killing at least 30 people. The first and stronger touched down 20 miles south of the city at Podolsk and rampaged through communities on the southeast edge of the city. The second struck close to the city center. The winds blew roofs off stone buildings and leveled many wooden homes.
29 June 1994 → The lowest temperature ever recorded in Australia was -9.4 degrees at Charlotte Pass, New South Wales.
29 June 2006 → Thick fog ruled out any play on the first day of the U.S. Women's Open at Newport Country Club in Rhode Island. With visibility of less than 100 yards on parts of the course, officials had little choice but to reschedule the entire first round.
29 June 2012 → A cluster of thunderstorms developed southwest of Chicago and quickly blew up into a derecho that tore eastward all the way to Washington, DC. Winds were up to 100 mph! 
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/iln/events/20120629/
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/pbz/June29Derecho1.html
From http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_June_29 
29 June 1826: Thomas Jefferson made his last entry in his weather observation log on this date, just six days before he died (on the 4th of July). The weather held a fascination for Jefferson as he made regular weather observations. He bought his first thermometer while working on the Declaration of Independence and his first barometer shortly thereafter.
29 June 1998: "The Corn Belt Derecho of 1998" in the following states NE, IA, IL, IN, KY. A derecho which originated in far southeast South Dakota, moved across Illinois during the afternoon and evening, and continued as far east as Ohio the next morning. Every county in central Illinois sustained some sort of damage, as these severe thunderstorms passed. Winds gusted in the 60 to 80 mph range, with some localized microbursts producing winds in excess of 100 mph. Significant damage occurred in the microburst areas, including the towns of Morton, McLean, LeRoy, and Tolono. In Tolono, 22 cars of a southbound 101-car Illinois Central freight train were blown off the tracks. It was unknown how many cars were picked up by the wind, but 16 cars were turned over and another 6 derailed but remained upright. The train was en route to Centralia from Chicago with a load of mixed freight, including plastic pellets and meal. The freight cars empty weighed about 60,000 pounds, while a full one weighs about 260,000 pounds. Overall, 12 people were injured, and damage was estimated around $16 million dollars. Click HERE for more information from the Storm Prediction Center.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/casepages/jun291998page.htm 
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/June/June%2029%2C%201998%20Corn%20Belt%20Derecho.jpg
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/images/1998jun29/98jun29derecho_svrplot.png
Image Courtesy from the Storm Prediction Center

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30 June 1912 → Known popularly as the "Regina Cyclone" this tornado was the worst in Canadian history in terms of deaths. Twenty-eight people died, hundreds were injured, and property damage totaled four million dollars with 500 buildings damaged or destroyed. The tornado started 10 miles south of the city and continued for another 8 miles north before dissipating.  
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrh/greatdivide/presentations/2008/zimmerman.pdf
30 June 1989 → Heavy rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Allison deluged the Southeast, with parts of Louisiana reporting nearly 2 feet of rain in 3 days. Birmingham, AL set a record with 13.12 inches of rain for the month of June.
From http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_June_30 
30 June 1792: The first recorded tornado in Canadian history struck the Niagara Peninsula between Foothill and Port Robinson, leveling some houses and uprooting trees between the communities.
30 June 1999: Mount Baker, Washington closed out a record snowfall season both for the United States and the verifiable world record as the seasonal total from July 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999 finished with 1,140 inches.
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Now From MPX "This Day in Weather History"  http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory 
This "Day in Weather History" contains some memorable weather events and trivia from 1805 to the present day for much of Minnesota and west central Wisconsin. Many sources were used to research and compile the data. The Twin Cities/Chanhassen National Weather Service would especially like to thank the Minnesota State Climatology Office and its contributors for their input into this database.

June 1
1 June 1993: St. Cloud recorded its latest ever freezing temperature, with a record low of 32 degrees.
See entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1 June 1897: Cold night in Tower. The temperature dropped to 18 degrees. (check -- not on recent list)
See entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
June 2
2 June 1945: Snow and sleet piled up to 4.5 inches at Tower.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
2 June 1898: Heavy rain fell across Minnesota. Just over 7 inches was reported at Pine River Dam.
June 3
3 June 1955: Seven people were killed on Lake Traverse when their boat was overturned by strong winds from a thunderstorm.
June 4
4 June 1958: Severe storms swept through northwest Wisconsin. A half-mile wide F5 tornado moved at 52 mph from south of Woodville to east of Colfax. 20 people were killed. Also, an F4 tornado took four lives at Chippewa Falls, and another F4 tornado killed four people near the small communities of Boyd and Stanley.  (Not included in most recent version)
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
4 June 1935: The latest official measurable snowfall in Minnesota was at Mizpah on this date with 1.5 inches.
4 June 1904: Severe windstorm on Lake Superior. 63-mph winds were clocked at Duluth.  (Not included in most recent version)
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
June 5
5 June 1930: Heavy rain fell at Waseca, with  4.3 inches of rain falling over 24 hours.
5 June 1915: This day marked the first of a long stretch of days of measurable rain at Winton near Ely. Some measurable rain fell on each day until 19th. The total amount of rain for the fifteen days was over six inches.
June 6
6 June 1864: Light frost was reported in St. Paul as a chilly air mass moved over the state.
June 7
7 June 2011: The temperature at Twin Cities reached a high of 103 degrees, shattering the previous record high by 8 Fahrenheit degrees.
7 June 1939: Grapefruit-sized hail fell in Rock County killing hundreds of farm animals near Hills.
From Green Bay http://www.weather.gov/grb/060707_tornadoes
"7 June 2007: Fast moving supercell thunderstorms with damaging winds, hail larger than 5 inches in diameter, and tornadoes ripped across central and northeast Wisconsin on 7 June 2007.  Five tornadoes touched down in central and northeast Wisconsin.  Path of one of the long-track tornadoes that crossed Menominee County could be seen from satellites for several years after." 
June 8
8 June 1972: 8 inches of rain fell in 7 hours at Madelia Township in Watonwan County.
8 June 1893: Violent windstorm occurred at Maple Plain from 1:30 to 2:15pm. A large frame house was moved 8 feet from its foundation. Many barns and haysheds were blown over by the wind. One barn was blown across Dutch Lake.
June 9
9 June 2002: Extensive flash flood began across northwest Minnesota. 14.55 inches would fall over the next 48 hours near Lake of the Woods. Floodwaters covered the city of Roseau. The Roseau River looked like a large lake from a satellite view.
9 June 1913: Strange mirage observed in Duluth. Ships appeared to be floating in the air over Lake Superior.  (This entry was not listed in 2017)
June 10
10 June 1926: An intense downpour fell on Mahoning, as 3.05 inches of rain fell in 45 minutes.
June 11
11 June 2011: Severe thunderstorms brought extremely strong winds to central Minnesota. An unofficial wind gust of 119 mph was reported at a seed farm 1 mile northwest of Atwater. A storm chaser's car was battered when he got too close to the storm. Most of the windows in the car were broken.
11 June 1996: 5.91 inches of rain fell at Mankato. Mudslides closed roads, including Hwy. 169, and pushed a trailer home 20 feet down a hill.
11 June 1922: A hailstorm at Maple Plain caused extensive damage to crops.
June 12
12 June 2001: A severe thunderstorm in Kandiyohi County produced wind gusts of 119 mph and tennis-ball sized hail. (Not included on recent file)
12 June 1917: The ice pack finally broke up  on Lake Superior near Duluth, one of the latest ever 'ice out' dates on record.
12 June 1899: A killer F5 tornado ripped through New Richmond, WI. Unfortunately, about 1000 extra people were in town for a circus. 117 people were killed and 200 were injured. 300 buildings were destroyed and a 3000 pound safe was carried a full block.  (Not included on recent file) 
See http://www.weather.gov/mkx/0612-1899-newrichmond-tornado
Also entry for the date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
June 13
13 June 1991: Lightning struck a tree at the U.S. Open golf tournament taking place at the Hazeltine Golf Course in Chaska, MN. One spectator was killed, and 6  (or was it 5?)  people were injured.
13 June 1968: The 13-mile long path of an F5 tornado took it directly through Tracy, MN. Nine people were killed and 111 homes destroyed. Farms outside of town were swept completely away, two of which had been hit by a tornado 44 years earlier.  (Not on recent list)
13 June 1930: A tornado hit the Northfield area, and caused heavy damage at Randolph.
June 14
14 June 1981: A tornado hit Roseville, destroying homes and damages Har Mar Mall.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory and 
at http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
14 June 1956: Eight inches of rain fell in the Ivanhoe area in 3.5 hours. 100 thousand dollars in damage to crops was reported.
14 June 1943: Torrential downpours caused flooding in the Twin Cities and east central Minnesota. 2.5 inches of rain fell in St. Paul in two hours. In addition, four streetcars were hit by lightning.
June 15
15 June 1989: Scattered frost developed across Minnesota with the cold spot at Isabella with a 29- degree temperature reading.
15 June 1892: An estimated F5 tornado struck just north of the MN/IA border, killing 9. Large house timbers were found embedded in the ground three miles away from their foundations.  (Not included in recent version.) 
See daily entry in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
June 16
16 June 1992: A total of 27 tornadoes were reported across Minnesota, the second most in Minnesota history. Some communities that were badly damaged were Chandler, Lake Wilson, Clarkfield and Cokato. The total damage was 80 million dollars. Presidential disaster declarations were made for many counties.
16 June 1989: Frost developed across Minnesota with crops destroyed on high ground in southeast Minnesota. The temperature at Preston got down to 32 degrees.
June 17
17 June 2010: The largest single-day tornado outbreak in Minnesota history occured with 48 tornadoes across the state. This outbreak would set the stage for a record breaking tornado year in Minnesota that finished with 113 tornadoes, the most of any state in the US that year. There were three EF-4 tornadoes and four EF-3 tornadoes in Minnesota. Four tornado fatalities occurred, which was the highest daily number since 5 July 5 1978.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
17 June 1954: Hailstorm at St. Cloud injured many people.  (Not listed in 2017)
June 18
18 June 1939: A deadly tornado hit Anoka.  Nine fatalities and over 200 injuries are reported.
18 June 1850: Territorial Governor Ramsey reported that about halfway between Ft. Ripley and Ft. Snelling on the Mississippi a severe hail storm occurred in the evening. One or two hailstones picked up were as large as hen’s eggs and he thought he saw one about the size of a 'musket ball.' 
June 19
19 June 2014: Heavy rain led to widespread flooding in the Twin Cities metro area. Minnehaha Creek had its record crest of 17.64 feet on this date. Eden Prairie recorded 5.47 inches of rain, while MSP airport received 4.13 inches, the highest daily total in 5 years.
19 June 1955: Hailstones the size of hen's eggs fell in Roseau County.
June 20
20 June 1992: Abnormally cold conditions occurred across the north. Temperatures dropped  to 26 degrees at Embarrass, MN and Hayward, WI, but the cold spot was 24 degrees at Brimson, MN.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history

See ftp://hdsc.nws.noaa.gov/pub/hdsc/data/aep/201206_Minnesota/2_Duluth%202012.pdf
for annual exceedance probabilities (AEP)  map for Duluth, Minnesota, 19-20 June 2012 (24-hour duration) for selected significant storm events for which observed precipitation amounts for at least one duration have AEP of 1/500 or less over a large area. 
(See http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hdsc/aep_storm_analysis/index.html )
June 21
21 June 1989: Fairmont had a wind gust of 76 mph during a severe thunderstorm.
June 22
22 June 1988: The sky was smoky across much of Minnesota due to wild fires during the '88 drought.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
22 June 1919: The 2nd deadliest tornado in Minnesota history hit Fergus Falls, killing 59 people. Like the #1 killer tornado for Minnesota (73 fatalities in St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids on 14 April 1886), it struck on a weekend.
22 June 1917: Grand Meadow had an intense downpour, as 4.98 inches of rain fell on this date. Corn crops were badly damaged by the heavy rain/flooding.
June 23
23 June 2002: Just a few weeks after torrential rains hit the area, another round of heavy rain hit northern Minnesota. This time up to eight inches fell in a two-day period in small parts of Mahnomen and St. Louis Counties.
23 June 1992: Chilly air across Minnesota with a high of 48 degrees at the Duluth Harbor and 52 degrees at Grand Marais.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
and http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
Check:
23 June 1950  Airplane Disappears Over Lake Michigan
From http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/thisday/index.asp?month=6&day=23&submit_form=Go
On this date Northwest Airlines flight 2501 disappeared over Lake Michigan. Flying from New York to Seattle with a stopover in Minneapolis, 58 passengers and crew were lost over the lake, leaving few clues save for small bits of debris, as to what happened. The loss was the largest loss of human life in a commercial aviation accident up to that point. [Source: Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates]
Also http://michiganshipwrecks.org/shipwrecks-2/shipwreck-categories/airplane-losses-lost-and-found/northwest-airlines-flight-2501-dc4
Thunderstorm activity was moving across Lake Michigan toward western Lower Michigan that evening.  

June 24
24 June 2002: Heavy rains fell on already saturated ground on the 24th, leading to flooding. 5.50 inches fell at Delano, and half of a mobile home park at Howard Lake was evacuated due to rising water.
24 June 1972: Frost developed across northeast Minnesota. Duluth had a low temperature of 35 degrees and Tower bottomed out at 32 degrees.
June 25
25 June 2003: Heavy rains fell across central Minnesota. Elk River picked up 8.19 inches. 4.36 inches fell in 4 hours in Maplewood with reports of street flooding in St. Paul. Strong winds toppled trees in Richfield.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history

25 June 1950: Flooding hit Warroad. Strong winds accompanied waters that rose 4 feet in 10 minutes.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
June 26
26 June 1982: Cold air spread into northern Minnesota. The temperature in Kulger Township dipped to 31 degrees. Duluth registered 36 degrees.
June 27
27 June 1908: A tornado hit Clinton in Big Stone County.
June 28
28 June 1876: The latest ice breakup in history for Duluth occurred on Lake Superior.
June 29
29 June 1969: Worthington picked up over 6 inches of rain in 24 hours.
29 June 1930: Extreme heat developed in Minnesota. The temperature at Canby reached a sizzling 110 degrees.
June 30
30 June 1982: Frost hit St. Louis County. The temperature at Kulger Township fell to 27 degrees and Meadowlands bottomed out at 32 degrees.
30 June 1871: Extremely large hail fell in Meeker County. Some of the stones were 6 inches in circumference. Many windows were broken on the north sides of houses.
30 June 1863: Note written on 1863 meteorological form at Ft. Ripley: Drought was very severe. The grass upon the prairie was nearly or quite dried up. The Mississippi River at this point was lower than was ever known before. The amount of moisture which fell during the last 6 months ending 30 June 1863 was 4.27 inches.  (Not reported in recent 2017 version.)
MSP "This Date in Weather History"  http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
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MQT Today in History http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
This "Day in Weather History" contains memorable weather events for much of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Many sources were used to research and compile the data.

June 1

1878: On June 1, 1878, the wood schooner Phantom was reported ashore and wrecked in a storm at the mouth of Bad River, WI in Lake Superior. Out of Ashland.

1988: On June 1, 1988, a record high temperature of 88F was set at NWS Marquette.

1996: On June 1, 1996, icebergs were seen at the beaches of Marquette on Lake Superior.

1935: On June 1, 1935, the gas tug, fisher Dagmar ran ashore in fog and holed 1 mile east of Chippewa Harbor, off Isle Royale in Lake Superior. She later slipped off into deep water.

1943: On June 1, 1943, the steel, bulk freight Prindoc, while carrying wheat, collided with the steamer Battleford in a heavy fog while downbound. She sank quickly in 600 feet of water near Passage Island, off Isle Royale in Lake Superior, while Battleford stood by to pick up her crew.

1961: On June 1, 1961, 1.5-inch hail (ping pong ball sized) fell in the Saint Mary's River 2.3 miles west northwest of Sault Ste Marie in the mid-morning out of a severe thunderstorm. A 58 mph wind gust occurred 3.7 miles southwest of Laurium in the morning.

2011: On June 1, 2011, strong west winds in the wake of a cold front resulted in tree damage and power outages in portions of Houghton and Ontonagon counties. An 18 to 24 inch diameter tree fell down in the spotter's backyard in Hancock. The spotter also heard reports of power outages and trees down across roads in the Hancock area early in the morning. Trees and power lines were reported down in Ontonagon. Tree size was unknown.

June 2
1945: On June 2, 1945, 5 inches of snow fell in Ishpeming prompting snow removal in Marquette County, the only time that has ever happened in June.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1907: On June 2, 1907, the latest (first occurrence of a) 70F high in Marquette ever for the year occurred, continuing a cold spring on record.
1999: On June 2, 1999, rainfall began late in the morning across eastern upper Michigan. Spotter reports and WSR-88D rainfall estimates indicated 2 to 5 inches of rain over eastern portions of Chippewa County. The bulk of the rain fell within a fairly short time frame (3 to 6 hours). Some roadways flooded and a few dirt roads washed out from Rudyard and Kinross northward along I-75 and M-129 to Sault Ste. Marie. Roadway flooding was also reported on Sugar Island. The only report of flood damage to property came from Sugar Island, where a garage floor had some standing water on it. The home suffered no monetary damage, and no businesses were affected.
1891: On June 2, 1891, the wood scow-schooner Mayflower, while carrying stone, was bound Portage Entry for Duluth in tow of the tug Cora A. Sheldon when she capsized after her deck cargo shifted and sank near La Pointe, WI on the south end of Madeline Island, Apostle Islands group in Lake Superior in a northwest gale. 3 crew were saved by the tug. One person perished out of 4 on board.
June 3
1945: On June 3, 1945, 2 inches of snow fell in Ishpeming.
2011: On June 3, 2011, an approaching low pressure system triggered isolated severe thunderstorms along portions of Lake Superior in the late evening of the 3rd and the early morning of the 4th. A 59 mph wind gust was measured from the northwest by the Freda spotter at 2317 EST.
June 4
1899: On June 4, 1899, the wood schooner O.M. Nelson, while carrying lumber, ran on a reef southwest of Pilot Island in a heavy fog and jammed fast near Pilot Island, WI in Porte Des Mortes in Lake Michigan. Her crew was taken off by the Porte des Mortes lightkeeper. The schooner was a total loss by December, despite the efforts of the tugs Monarch and Elsie as well as the big carferry Ann Arbor No. 3.
1904: On June 4, 1904, the wood tug and freighter Niagara was bound for Duluth to pick up a tow of marine construction equipment for a job on Lake Huron when she went ashore in heavy seas at Knife Island, MN near Duluth in Lake Superior and wrecked and was a total loss. It was reported that her compass went haywire and she was well off course. The tug Edna G answered her distress calls and took 2 passengers and 11 crew off. The engine and boiler were later salvaged.
See entry for date that had been at http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
2011: On June 4, 2011, an approaching low pressure system triggered isolated severe thunderstorms along portions of Lake Superior in the late evening of the 3rd and the early morning of the 4th. A 60-mph wind gust was measured by the Grand Marais GLOS station early that morning. 
June 5
1988: On June 5, 1988, a record high temperature of 90F was set at NWS Marquette.
1979: On June 5, 1979, the steel, bulk freighter Cartiercliffe Hall, while hauling corn, caught fire with a blaze in her superstructure that caused $4.5 million damages to the vessel and her cargo as well as the loss of 7 of the crew out of 25, who were unable to abandon ship with the rest offshore of Copper Harbor, MI in Lake Superior. Her survivors were picked up by the freighters Louis R. Desmarais and Thomas W. Lamont. This ship was rebuilt and is now sailing as the Algontario.
2005: On June 5, 2005, an F1 tornado touched down briefly in the late afternoon 8 miles northeast of Marenisco, MI. This tornado developed on the west side of Lake Gogebic and was on the ground for 0.3 mile with a damage width of 50 yards. The brief touchdown flipped over a pontoon boat, damaging the boat, boat lift and dock and did $25,000 worth of property damage. Several 12-14 inch diameter trees were knocked down at Marenisco in the mid afternoon and several 6-12 inch diameter trees were down at Watersmeet in the late afternoon. 1.00 inch hail (quarter sized) fell 2 miles south of Big Bay in the early evening. The hail lasted for 20 minutes. A six-inch diameter tree uprooted 3 miles southeast of Harvey with several two-inch diameter tree limbs down.
1999: On June 5, 1999, severe thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 70 mph and large trees down in Crystal Falls and wind gusts to 60 mph and trees down in Gaastra and Iron River in the early evening.
June 6
1988: On June 6, 1988, a record high temperature of 93F was set at NWS Marquette.
1913: On June 6, 1913, the wood schooner-barge, 3-mast Allegheny which was carrying lumber, broke away from tow steamer M.T. Green and stranded on a bar in a foggy gale at Vermillion Point on Lake Superior. She was right in front of the lifesaving station, whose surfmen took five of her crew off. The vessel later broke up. One member of the crew died.
1858: On June 6, 1858, the wood, bulk and package freight Indiana, while carrying iron ore, was downbound, when she blew a propeller seal, split her sternpost, filled and foundered quickly 10 miles off Crisp Point, MI in Lake Superior. Her cabin was blown off by the pressure and floated about for awhile with its lights still burning. Crew and 4 passengers, including Frank Perew, the ship's owner, made it to shore in her boats, camped out overnight and then sailed one of her boats to Whitefish Point, where the schooner St. Paul brought them to the Soo. Her machinery and some gear was recovered in 1978-83 and now rests in the Smithsonian. It is reputedly the oldest marine engine existing that was built in North America. This was called at the time the first cargo of Lake Superior iron ore ever lost.
1999: On June 6, 1999, large trees were brought down across highway 13 at Nahma from a severe thunderstorm in the early morning. Large trees down across highway 581 in Menominee at 0210 EST and large trees down in Stephenson at 0215 EST. Large trees down across highway 94 in Steuben at 0330 EST. Several trees down in Marenisco and also at Watersmeet in the early evening.
2008: On June 6, 2008, strong south winds developed in the afternoon ahead of a deep low pressure system approaching from the northern Plains. Strong winds toppled a tree near the corner of Breitung Avenue and Roosevelt Street in Breitung Township east of Kingsford. The tree fell on nearby power lines and caught on fire. Traffic was detoured for a short period of time as the Breitung Township Fire Department and Wisconsin Energies personnel responded to the incident and cut the tree down. Law enforcement officials reported numerous reports of trees down across the Ironwood area.
2011: On June 6, 2011, the passage of a low pressure trough through an unstable airmass caused severe thunderstorms with large hail over Dickinson County in the evening. 1.75 inch hail (golf ball sized) fell in the early evening 2 miles east southeast of Felch Mountain.
June 7
1859: On June 7, 1859, the wood brig, 2-mast Columbia, while carrying general merchandise, grounded in a gale near Sherwood Point in the bay of Green Bay near Death's Door and broke up while bound Chicago for Sturgeon Bay. This ship brought the first load of copper from the Keweenaw and brought the first locomotive to Marquette earlier.
2007: On June 7, 2007, four-inch diameter trees blown down 2 miles southeast of Wakefield in the late afternoon and five-inch diameter tree branches blown down in Wakefield. An F0 tornado touched down approximately 4 miles west of Banat in the early evening in a forested area west of County Road 356. The EF-0 tornado was approximately 125 yards wide as it tore a quarter-mile path through forested areas and across County Road 356. With winds estimated at 80 mph, the tornado uprooted or snapped more than fifty large trees (diameter in excess of a foot and height greater than 50 feet) along its path before dissipating over forested swampland. One foot diameter tree branches were blown down at Garden at 1935 EST. A tree was blown down across Cliff Drive 1 mile south of Phoenix at 2023 EST causing $1000 in damage. Golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) lasted for one to two minutes 2 miles southwest of Bagley at 1650 CST and 1.5 inch hail (ping pong ball sized) lasted for one to two minutes 1 mile southeast of Carney at 1655 CST. Ten-inch diameter tree limbs down east of Highway US-41 on County Road 342 1 mile east of Wallace at 1729 CST. Several 8-12 inch diameter trees blown down across roads 5 miles south of Ontonagon at 1928 EST. Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds over west and south central Upper Michigan on the afternoon and evening. $20,000 worth of property damage was caused by the tornado. Two 14-inch diameter trees were snapped at Freda and an eight-inch diameter tree was blown down 3 miles east of Houghton in the early evening. Sustained wind were measured at 43 knots (50 mph) with gusts to 50 knots (58 mph) at Passage Island Lighthouse at 2000 EST. In Chippewa County, winds gusted up to 50 mph behind a cold front. With trees fully leafed out, some tree damage occurred. A power pole was knocked over 12 miles south of Paradise, starting a fire. A potent line of thunderstorms developed over Lake Michigan in the early overnight hours. Several trees were downed on Mackinac Island at 2350 EST. One tree fell onto a century-old cottage, causing substantial damage to the roof and porch, and shattering windows. Large limbs were downed at the Grand Hotel golf course, and fencing was damaging along Huron Road. Total damage on the island was $35,000.
2008: On June 7, 2008, a severe thunderstorm generated large hail and strong winds in Hermansville in the evening. 1 inch hail fell (quarter sized) in Hermansville.
June 8
1954: On June 8, 1954, the steel tug Edward C. Whalen foundered in a storm off Corbiel Point, Ontario in Lake Superior, thought to be a total loss and documents surrendered, but later recovered.
1973: On June 8, 1973, a severe thunderstorm produced a 63-mph wind gust 2.8 miles north of Marquette in the mid afternoon.
1985: On June 8, 1985, an F1 tornado touched down in the mid evening in Menominee County 6.9 miles west of Stephenson, MI with a damage path 50 yards wide and 2.5 miles long. A falling tree killed a man in a tent at Shakey Lakes County Park, 10 miles west of Stephenson. Property damage was valued at $2500. Golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) fell in Menominee. Earlier, 1.75 inch hail (golf ball sized) fell 1.2 miles east southeast of Wakefield in the late afternoon.
2011: On June 8, 2011, the passage of a strong cold front spawned scattered severe thunderstorms over the eastern half of Upper Michigan in the early to mid-afternoon. Hail was from quarter to half dollar size (1 inch to 1.25 inch) 4 miles southwest of Melstrand. Grand Marais and 2 miles east of Shingleton both saw 1.75 inch (golf ball sized) hail. A 12-inch diameter tree was found snapped 11 miles south of the Munising Hanley airport. Numerous trees had three to six-inch diameter tree branches down 8 miles north of Moss Lake in Delta County and the top of an eight-inch diameter tree was snapped off 7 miles north of Moss Lake. A six-inch diameter tree was downed and a 10-inch diameter tree was uprooted 3 miles south of Newberry Luce Airport.
2012: On June 8, 2012, a very warm and unstable airmass produced a few severe thunderstorms over Baraga and Marquette counties in the evening. Some of these storms produced golf ball sized hail in the Marquette area, and a tornado occurred southwest of Big Bay at Eagle Mine. Storms also produced heavy rain over portions of central Upper Michigan from the evening of the 8th into the morning of the 9th. The observer near Munising measured 1.55 inches of rainfall. The observer near Arnold measured 1.70 inches of rainfall. The observer 15 miles south of Wetmore measured 1.82 inches of rainfall. The High Bridge RAWS station measured 1.88 inches of rainfall. The observer near Garden Corners measured 2.01 inches of rainfall. The observer in Marquette measured 1.80 inches of rainfall. The ground was white with 1 inch hail (quarter sized) in Skanee. A tornado snapped or uprooted numerous large trees causing some backroads in rural western Marquette County to become impassable about 9 miles southwest of Big Bay. The tornado was classified as an EF-1 with max winds estimated at 95 mph and caused $10,000 in damages. 1 inch hail (quarter sized) was reported at Tourist Park with circular motion noted in the thunderstorm clouds. Some downed tree branches were also observed at the Jacobetti Tech Center. Golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) occurred at the River Park Sports Complex. Strong winds and golf ball sized hail caused damage to siding at the corner of Hawley and Fitch streets in Marquette. Golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) busted out windows and damaged roofs on homes on the north side of Marquette and also dented vehicles causing $500,000 in damages. 1.5 inch (ping pong ball sized) hail was reported near the Ojibwa Casino east of Harvey. The observer near Cooks measured 2.06 inches of rainfall.
June 9
1891: On June 9, 1891, the wood schooner Topsy, while carrying lumber, was downbound with a hold and deckload of lumber, when she stranded and wrecked in a storm near Waugoschance Point, western Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan, her crew barely escaping. She was a total loss of about $3000.
1916: On June 9, 1916, either June 7th or 9th, the wooden schooner William Aldrich went ashore and broke up near the former town of Davenport, MI which is near Point Epoufette in a gale.
2000: On June 9, 2000, warm air and gulf moisture surging north ahead of a surface low pressure area over the Northern Plains helped fuel thunderstorms which developed late the previous day into the early morning. The thunderstorms developed along and north of a warm front and were aided by widespread converging air in the low levels and divergence aloft. Shortly after midnight, a line of thunderstorms moved from Gogebic County, east, through southern Iron and central Dickinson Counties, producing large hail which damaged homes and vehicles in Iron River and Randville. An eye-witness reported hail falling so hard, it seemed like a snowstorm. About 700 vehicles and 575 homes suffered hail damage, mostly in a west-southwest to east-northeast hail swath 1 1/2 to 2 miles wide across the northern two-thirds of the city of Iron River. The greatest damage, about $2.3M, was to roofs and vinyl siding. Stambaugh and Gaastra, immediately south of Iron River, and Alpha, about 12 miles east-southeast of Iron River, also experienced large hail but little property damage. Thunderstorm winds were light and did not exacerbate the hail damage. Ping-pong ball size hail (1.5 inch) in the Randville-Grand Bluff area in west-central Dickinson County shattered plastic patio furniture, broke windows, and damaged homes and vehicles. The Dickinson County Emergency Management Coordinator estimates the hail storm caused $75K damage to about 20 vehicles plus $150K damage to 20 houses in the Randville-Grand Bluff area. Hail up to baseball sized (2.75 inch) came from this storm at 0200 EST. Golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) fell in Iron River at 0030 CST and in Alpha at 0115 CST.
2010: On June 9, 2010, a low pressure system tracking east across southern Ontario brought a cold front through Upper Michigan. The front triggered a few severe thunderstorms over Alger and Schoolcraft Counties during the afternoon hours. Downed trees were observed along Highway 94 3.1 miles north of Steuben.
June 10
1872: On June 10, 1872, when the pre-cursor to the National Weather Service was signed into law on February 9, 1870, only the Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast, and Great Lakes were included under its jurisdiction. Beginning today meteorological responsibilities were increased to cover the entire United States.
2000: On June 10, 2000, a sharp temperature contrast between a warm, very moist airmass behind an east-west warm front across central Upper Michigan and cool air near Lake Superior helped fuel thunderstorms in the afternoon. Modest instability combined with the high moisture content of the atmosphere and surface dew points above 70F produced severe weather. A low topped supercell formed along the warm front and was responsible for spawning an F1 tornado. An F1 tornado touched down in mid afternoon 7 miles north of Ralph. It was on the ground for 20 minutes, travelled 7.5 miles and lifted 10 miles NNE of Ralph in Marquette County or 9 miles SW of Gwinn with a damage width of 500 yards narrowing down to 100 yards. The tornado touched down in the Escanaba State Forest in northeast Dickinson County and tracked from west to east on a nearly continuous 7 1/2 mile path through the woods into southern Marquette County. Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) aerial photography showed the path varying from about 200 feet to 1200 feet wide, becoming very narrow and evidencing skipping during its last 1 1/2 miles of travel. The Michigan DNR estimated 400 acres of downed timber at a value of $250,000. The DNR expected to be able to harvest and recover about half the timber. $125,000 worth of crop damage also occurred. In the mid afternoon, a wind gust to 69 mph out of a severe thunderstorm occurred 1 mile southeast of Trenary in Alger County destroyed a barn, killing a bull inside, trees down. $100,000 worth of property damage occurred with that storm. 8 to 12 inch diameter trees were downed 3 miles southwest of Gwinn at 1605 EST. 12 to 18 inch diameter trees down 2 miles northeast of Steuben at 1645 EST.
2005: On June 10, 2005, a severe thunderstorm brought down a tree down across Chaney Lake Rd. 6 miles south of Wakefield in the early afternoon.
2007: On June 10, 2007, a waterspout was spotted over Lake Superior 10 miles east of Marquette at 1800 EST. A rope waterspout was reported approximately 10 miles east of Marquette moving back and forth in a criss cross motion. The waterspout was attached to a small wall cloud in front of the rain foot.
June 11
1988: On June 11, 1988, a record high temperature of 88F was set at NWS Marquette.
1871: On June 11, 1871, the wood bark, 3-mast Maitland, while carrying corn, foundered following a bizarre nighttime collision between she and the schooners Mears and Golden Harvest in a northwest gale near Waugoschance Point, western Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan. She was struck by the Harvest, then sheered to a position broadside to Mears, which rammed her solidly to forward, sinking her in less than five minutes. She had been bound Chicago for Buffalo.
1999: On June 11, 1999, golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) fell and 6-inch diameter trees broken off in a severe thunderstorm in the mid afternoon at Hardwood and Foster City had 1.25-inch hail (half dollar sized) in the mid afternoon. 2.5-inch hail (tennis ball sized) fell in Watson in the late afternoon.
2001: On June 11, 2001, an upper air disturbance moving east across Upper Michigan produced a line of thunderstorms during the evening. A couple of the storms became severe. Two 8-inch diameter trees uprooted and other trees down 10 miles northwest of Ishpeming.
2005: On June 11, 2005, a 12-inch diameter tree down 1 mile north of Iron Mountain in the early evening and a large tree was blown down in Norway during a severe thunderstorm. Two large trees were blown down on Pentoga Trail in Crystal Falls Township. A 41 year-old man was struck by lightning while mowing his lawn in Wakefield in the late afternoon and was injured. Four 1-foot diameter trees down along US Highway 2 near Watersmeet in the late afternoon. Carney had an estimated 50-60 mph wind gust.
1875: On June 11, 1875, the wood bark or schooner, 3-mast Cleveland went ashore on a rocky island coast at Pilot Island, WI in a storm. She was stripped and abandoned by the 17th. 
June 12
1976: On June 12, 1976, a severe thunderstorm produced a 62-mph wind gust at KI Sawyer Base in the mid evening.
1988: On June 12, 1988 and again in 2007, a record high temperature of 89F was set at NWS Marquette.
1991: On June 12, 1991, the Mt. Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines erupted. This caused the year without a summer the next year in 1992 across most of the U.S. Temperatures worldwide averaged 0.5C below normal, the greatest climate disruption from a volcano in the 20th century.
1992: On June 12, 1992, the high temperature at WFO Marquette was 88F, the warmest temperature recorded for that year and shortly thereafter, the cold weather set in for the cold summer of 1992.
2008: On June 12, 2008, a gravity wave was the probable cause of damaging wind in the Ironwood area early in the morning. Ironwood Public Safety reported numerous trees down across the Ironwood area. One large tree fell across two lanes of Highway US-2 between 0300 and 0330 CST. High winds flipped over a 60 foot boat dock, downed several trees and caused damage to a second dock, boat lift and canopy in the Indian Lake area near Manistique in the mid evening. The GLOS site at Fairport measured wind gusts up to 59 mph at 2101 EST. A 66 mph wind gust was measured at the GLOS site at Port Inland at 2218 EST. 
June 13
1847: On June 13, 1847, the wood schooner, 2-mast Merchant, while carrying a full load, was bound Soo for L'Anse, when she sailed out into a gale and was never seen again near Munising, MI in Lake Superior. She was said to be overloaded when she left port. Some of those aboard were mining VIPs, carrying a lot of cash. In October, 1852, the tips of her masts were discovered 30 feet below the surface, but the locality was not given. 14 people perished, but some sources estimate close to 40.
1956: On June 13, 1956, 1.5-inch hail (ping pong ball sized) fell in the mid afternoon 1.3 miles east of Negaunee out of a severe thunderstorm.
1988: On June 13, 1988, a record high temperature of 93F was set at NWS Marquette.
1919: On June 13, 1919, the wood, bulk freight Gogebic was stranded and heavily damaged at Dead Man's Rock In Lake Superior during a storm. Thought to be a total loss, but later recovered.
1921: On June 13, 1921, the wood tug Howard, was bound Thunder Bay for Cloud Bay, Ontario when she stranded in fog at Victoria Island off Cloud Bay south of Thunder Bay, Ontario. She then burned to a total loss in Lake Superior.
2004: On June 13, 2004, severe thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 62 mph at Bark River in the mid evening. A warm front passed across Upper Michigan, bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms. The strongest of the thunderstorms produced wind gusts as high as 62 mph in Delta county.
2002: On June 13, 2002, an upper trough interacted with a surface boundary to produce scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon. Two of the storms became severe as they moved east northeast across central Upper Michigan, with up to one inch hail (quarter sized) and winds to 60 mph. An eight inch diameter tree was blown down 10 miles north of Sagola in the mid afternoon. Four inch diameter trees were blown down 3 miles east of Witch Lake.
2008: On June 13, 2008, a probable gravity wave caused high winds over northern Lake Michigan in the early morning. The GLOS site at Port Inland measured a wind gust at 51 knots (59 mph) at 0442 EST.
2009: On June 13, 2009, a low pressure trough moving into Upper Michigan spawned isolated severe thunderstorms between Ironwood and Bessemer in the afternoon. A 60-mph wind gust was measured by the Gogebic County Airport AWOS in the early afternoon. Three nine- to ten-foot diameter pine trees were knocked over in Ramsey Park in Ramsey in the early afternoon.
June 14
1988: On June 14, 1988, a record high temperature of 95F was set at NWS Marquette.
1981: On June 14, 1981, an F2 tornado touched down in the late afternoon 8.1 miles east of Crystal Falls and headed northeast lifting 1.5 miles north of Sagola. It was on the ground for 2.6 miles and was 90 yards wide at one point and did $5000 worth of property damage as it moved across eastern Iron and western Dickinson Counties.
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2004: On June 14, 2004, a severe thunderstorm with gusts up to 75 mph blew down a 15 inch diameter tree 19 miles northeast of Rapid River in the mid afternoon. A cold front passed across Upper Michigan, generating scattered showers and thunderstorms. A few of the storms in Delta County became severe in the afternoon with damaging winds and nickel-sized hail.
1994: On June 14, 1994, a severe thunderstorm dropped 2-inch hail (hen egg sized) at 1230 EST in Copper Harbor. Hail damage was reported to vehicle windshields and a metal roof of a store. Winds blew down trees and power lines between Eagle River and Copper Harbor. $5000 damage was done.
2012: On June 14, 2012, a decaying thunderstorm complex produced strong wake low winds over western Lake Superior in the afternoon. A ship over western Lake Superior 32 miles northwest of Ontonagon measured wake low wind gusts to 58 mph.
June 15
1943: On June 15, 1943, the steel, bulk freight George M. Humphrey collided with 5,500 ton steamer D.M. Clemson in fog and sank in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron. Her recovery was the most expensive salvage job up to that time.
1979: On June 15, 1979, golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) fell at Hulbert, MI in Chippewa County and at Newberry in the mid evening.
2008: On June 15, 2008, a few severe thunderstorms occurred over portions of Luce and Schoolcraft counties in the afternoon. Seven to eight-inch diameter tree limbs were blown down on Ten Curves Road 8 miles southwest of Laketon at 1335 EST. 
June 16
1858: On June 16, 1858, the wood brig, 2-mast Shakespeare, while carrying lumber, went ashore on Pilot Island in Lake Michigan, probably in a gale, and broke up by June 26, when the brig Pilgrim arrived to strip her.
1939: On June 16, 1939, a giant hailstone downpour hit the Gogebic range early in the morning. Hail the size of marbles to larger than baseballs covered the ground and didn't completely melt until noon in some places. Hail eight inches in circumference was found shortly after the storm ended in Hurley, WI. At one greenhouse in Ironwood, MI, an estimated 800 panes of glass were shattered. Ironwood, Bessemer and Wakefield all reported extensive damage to businesses and homes. Automobiles throughout the Gogebic range were badly dented with gardens and crops sustaining extensive damage from the hail. A dozen barns and outbuildings were demolished, telephone and electric lines were brought down in Trout Creek as severe winds from the thunderstorm hit an hour later after moving through the Gogebic Range. 37 trees were uprooted on Main Street. The trees were about 2 feet in diameter and they tore out large sections of sidewalks and displaced sewer pipe. This storm continued to march across the U.P. and later hit a house in Newberry with lightning causing a mother and her two children to be treated for shock. The lightning destroyed the electrical equipment inside their house. A tremendous seiche occurred with the severe thunderstorm that moved across the U.P. this day. This seiche pushed and pulled the water of Lake Superior in and out of Marquette Bay at 30 minute intervals and began shortly after 1030 a.m. The seiche rose and fell 5 feet over several hours. While this was occurring, the weather bureau at Marquette observed a very jumpy barometer with a change of 0.3 inches in 15 minutes. Docks, fish houses and small boats sustained extensive damage in Marquette. Farther west, the highway between L'Anse and Baraga was closed as surging water brought debris from the lake over the road. On the north shore of Lake Superior, Canadian officials reported a rise of 8 feet in 20 minutes in the waters of Heron Bay. It took until the next morning for the lake to return to normal levels in Heron Bay.
1969: On June 16, 1969, a severe thunderstorm produced a 58 mph wind gust 1.3 miles east of Negaunee in the early evening.
June 17
1995: On June 17, 1995, a record high temperature of 92F was set at NWS Marquette.
1883: On June 17, 1883, the wood schooner, 3-mast Escanaba, while carrying 850 tons of iron ore, was bound Escanaba, Michigan for Cleveland with ore when she struck Gull Island Reef in the Beaver Islands in Lake Michigan in heavy weather with a gale and reportedly broke up quickly. No effort was made to recover the vessel, and the next Bradley schooner bound for the iron country, the 3-master Negaunee, was ordered to salvage her outfit.
2006: On June 17, 2006, two-inch diameter hail (hen egg sized) fell at a cabin on Huron Bay 2 miles north of Skanee, MI in the early afternoon with several large trees down at a cabin near Huron Bay. In the early afternoon, a 50-foot tall 10-inch diameter tree broke in half and a 7-inch diameter poplar tree broke in L'anse causing $1000 in property damage. 40 to 50 large trees were snapped off or uprooted between Pine Creek Road and just south of Highway M-38 near the Sturgeon River in the early afternoon 3 miles south of Pelkie with gusts up to 69 mph that did $40,000 in property damage. Numerous trees and power lines were reported down along a two-mile swath near Prickett Dam Road and along Silver Mountain Road at 1305 EST. Many trees blown down or uprooted along Eagles Nest and Buck Roe Roads and several trees ranging between 8 and 10 inches in diameter were snapped off half way up the tree 9 miles northwest of Marquette at 1415 EST and one tree was uprooted near County Highway 550. Measured wind gust of 62 mph and a 6-inch diameter birch tree was snapped off at Freda at 1550 EST. 40 to 50 large trees were snapped off or uprooted along Gratiot Lake Road within a mile of the northwest shoreline of Gratiot Lake at 1630 EST in Keweenaw County causing $40,000 in damage. A cold frontal passage triggered severe thunderstorms over portions of the west half of Upper Michigan in the afternoon. The severe storms either uprooted or snapped off numerous large trees or dropped large hail at selected locations in Gogebic, Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw and Marquette Counties. In Gobebic County, a 50-year old man was struck and killed by lightning while standing under a tree near Sunday Lake in Wakefield in the early afternoon. Wind gusts to 63 mph caused major damage of $400,000 to docks and boats 1 mile south of Bayfield, Wisconsin.
2007: On June 17, 2007, severe thunderstorms dropped large hail over portions of Baraga and Keweenaw counties in the evening. A severe thunderstorm produced quarter sized hail (1- inch diameter) in Phoenix. Penny-sized hail was also reported five miles west of Phoenix.
June 18
1995: On June 18, 1995, a record high temperature of 96F and a warm record high low temperature of 72F was set at NWS Marquette.
1908: On June 18, 1908, a severe thunderstorm hit Ironwood with hailstones 4 inches in circumference (grape fruit sized) accompanied by torrential rain. Driven by high winds, the hail damaged many windows in the city. In all cases, the damage was the worst on west and north sides of buildings facing the storm's prevailing wind. With windows broken, rain damaged the interiors of homes. There were also some shade trees uprooted or broken.
2000: On June 18, 2000, a large tree limb 12 inches in diameter went down during a severe thunderstorm in Marquette in the late afternoon.
2007: On June 18, 2007, severe thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts across portions of west and central Upper Michigan in the afternoon and evening. Several trees down along old M-28 1 mile east of Covington in the late afternoon with wind gusts up to 63 mph. Two to three trees downed in Norway in the late afternoon. Five large trees blown down on old US-2 1 mile east of Marenisco in the mid afternoon. Several trees were blown down in Crystal Falls. Several four-inch diameter pine tree branches snapped a quarter mile north of town on County Road 601 in Republic. Nine-inch diameter birch tree snapped approximately 20 feet from the base and multiple four-inch diameter trees and branches down 3 miles north of Menominee. One tree down on Triangle Lake 2 miles west of Steuben.
2012: On June 18, 2012, a warm front allowed warm and moist air to surge north into Northern Michigan. Initial thunderstorms developed in Eastern Upper Michigan in the afternoon; some of these produced large hail. 1.75-inch hail (golf ball sized) fell in Rudyard in Chippewa County. Golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) was reported seven miles northwest of Escanaba. Intense thunderstorms dropped one to two inches of rainfall over many locations in Delta County on the afternoon of the 18th. The heavy rainfall caused standing water of one to two feet deep on U.S Highway 41 in Escanaba. Large hail was reported on the north side of Gladstone with hail up to 2 inches in diameter (hen egg sized). Most hail stones were dime to quarter sized. The Spincich Lake RAWS site measured 1.64 inches of rainfall. The spotter near Birch Creek measured 1.75 inches of rainfall over mainly a two-hour period. The spotter four miles west of Gulliver measured 1.90 inches of storm total rainfall. Hail measured at 1.5 inches in diameter (ping pong ball sized) fell at the Seul Choix Point Lighthouse.
June 19
1889: On June 19, 1889, the steel, passenger and package freight Charles J. Sheffield was rammed broadsides, just forward of her stack, in heavy fog by the steel freighter North Star, which kept her bow in the hole until Sheffield's crew clambered aboard. When she backed away, Sheffield sank in 8 minutes, a total loss of $160,000. She went down in 900 feet of water 60 miles west of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. Both vessels were later found to be at fault. First collision between two steel ships. When built, she was a highly innovative bulk freighter, with a modern hatch plan and iron decks.
1988: On June 19, 1988, the high temperature of 91F was the 5th day of temperatures greater than 90F in June at NWS Marquette. 7 daily record high temperatures for June still remain from that year.
1995: On June 19, 1995, WFO Marquette had a record high temperature of 93F and a warm record high low temperature of 70F.
1992: On June 19, 1992, the high temperature at WFO Marquette was only 45F, the coldest high temperature observed on that date and the low was 37F.
2001: On June 19, 2001, numerous reports of trees and power lines down around Rudyard, Sugar Island, Sault Ste. Marie and Paradise. Numerous reports of trees and power lines down around Eckerman, Engadine, St. Ignace and Cedarville. Storms developed ahead of a cold front which moved into the region during the early morning hours.
2012: On June 19, 2012, severe thunderstorms caused damaging wind over portions of Menominee County in the morning. Two large trees were knocked down on road G12 one mile southwest of Cedar River. Several clusters of severe thunderstorms moved across western Lake Superior from the evening of the 19th into the morning of the 20th. The Cason J. Callaway measured wind gusts to 69 mph over western Lake Superior 30 miles north of Ontonagon. A 50-knot wind gust was measured by Lake Superior buoy 45001 and a 76 mph gust was later measured there in the mid evening. A 50-knot wind gust was also measured at the Rock Of Ages C-man station on Lake Superior late in the evening.
June 20
1857: On June 20, 1857, ice was still reported in Marquette Harbor.
1992: On June 20, 1992, the high temperature was only 47F, the coldest high temperature observed on that date at WFO Marquette. A trace of snow was reported early in the morning across parts of the U.P.
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1979: On June 20, 1979, an F0 tornado touched down in the mid afternoon 7 miles ENE of Iron River in Lake Emily in Iron County. It was 33 yards wide and was on the ground for 0.1 mile and did $2500 worth of property damage. In the late afternoon, another F0 tornado touched down near Chief Lake 8.1 miles SW of Republic, MI in Marquette County. It was on the ground for 0.1 mile, was 33 yards wide, and caused no damage.
2002: On June 20, 2002, an eight-inch diameter popple tree and several smaller trees were blown down 3 miles west of Baraga in the early morning with wind gusts up to 69 mph in severe thunderstorms. A 14 inch diameter tree was blown down 7 miles northwest of Houghton. Thunderstorms ahead of a weak cold front impacted mainly western Upper Michigan overnight on the 19th and into the morning of the 20th. Some of these storms became severe during the early morning of the 20th, with large hail and/or damaging wind gusts in Ontonagon, Houghton and Baraga Counties.
2007: On June 20, 2007, severe thunderstorms dropped large hail over portions of central Upper Michigan in the afternoon. The hardest hit areas were downtown Marquette and the southern area of Marquette south of Highways 28-41 and in Harvey where damage estimates from the storms were reported to be over $60,000,000. A large birch tree was down across Way Dam Road 7 miles northeast of Crystal Falls at 1427 CST with a lot of small hail covering the ground. Hail up to 3 inches in diameter (tea cup sized) fell on the south side of Marquette and in Harvey. The hail covered the ground, damaged many automobiles and roofs on the south side of Marquette and shredded leaves that clogged storm drains resulting in street flooding from melting hail in Marquette. Several trucks were damaged or totaled in Harvey with 3 inch hail (tea cup sized) at 1412 EST. After the hail fell, a dense ground fog formed and caused a brief period of low visibilities in the Marquette area. Several large tree branches down on Front Street in Marquette at 1403 EST. 1 inch hail (quarter sized) fell in La Branch at 1435 CST. Several four-inch diameter branches down, as well as a 14-inch diameter tree 2 miles southwest of Bagley at 1543 CST.
2012: On June 20, 2012, thunderstorms forming ahead of cold front dumped widespread heavy rain over much of the west half of Upper Michigan in the afternoon of the 20th into the early morning of the 21st. Many locations throughout Gogebic County measured between two and three inches of storm total rainfall. A tree was reported down on a power line on Lake Road at Little Girls Point. Observers near Calumet measured nearly two inches of storm total rainfall. The Copper Harbor ASOS measured 2.01 inches of storm total rainfall. Locations from Michigamme northwest to Big Bay measured between 1.5 and 2.0 inches of storm total rainfall. Observers from Bergland and Paulding to Rockland measured nearly two inches of storm total rainfall. A 68 knot wind gust was measured by the Lake Superior buoy 45001 in the early morning.
June 21
1953: On June 21, 1953, the steel, bulk freight Scotiadoc, while carrying wheat, was bound Thunder Bay for Georgian Bay, when she was rammed by the steamer Burlington in heavy fog and sank in deep water 15 miles off Thunder Bay, Ontario in Lake Superior. Burlington rescued her crew. One person of the 29 member crew perished.
1988: On June 21, 1988, 2.77 inches of rain fell in a short period of time in Bark River in a small cluster of heavy thunderstorms.
1995: On June 21, 1995 and again in 1983, WFO Marquette had a record high temperature of 88F.
1995: On June 21, 1995, lightning destroyed a brick chimney on a house in downtown Ishpeming. Lightning is also considered to be the cause of a fire which destroyed a century-old church in downtown Ishpeming. Damage to the church is estimated to be in excess of $1 million and ended up being $5 million. Thunderstorms with tops to 35,000 feet developed around 1600 EDT on a line from Marquette to Ishpeming, then 60 miles southwest to Iron River and Crystal Falls near the Wisconsin border. These storms moved southeast around 10 knots, and dissipated around 1930 EDT. The fire apparently smoldered for about four hours in the church steeple before breaking out.
2006: On June 21, 2006, several trees and power lines were downed with a severe thunderstorm in Pelkie in the mid afternoon causing $3000 in property damage. Several trees were down in Baraga in the mid afternoon with $2000 in property damage. Tree blown down taking a power line with it in Mass City at 1511 EST. L'anse also had several trees down at 1543 EST. A few 4-5 inch diameter trees down 4 miles south of Big Bay at 1620 EST. A cold front triggered isolated severe thunderstorms over portions of west and central Upper Michigan in the afternoon and evening.
June 22
1883: On June 21, 1883, the iron sidewheel steamer, passenger and package freight Spartan was stranded and wrecked after running on the rocks at Caribou Island in Lake Superior in fog during a storm and sliding out her full length. By the 27th, she had been declared a total loss, but she was recovered July 3 by the big wrecking tug Winslow.
1995: On June 22, 1995, WFO Marquette had a record high temperature of 90F.
1992: On June 22, 1992, WFO Marquette recorded a low of 32F, the latest freeze recorded and the coldest temperature recorded for that late in the season.
2011: On June 22, 2011, thunderstorms forming along a slow moving low pressure system and associated warm front dropped heavy rainfall of four to five inches over portions of Delta County from the 21st into the 22nd. Many other counties over central Upper Michigan measured two to three inches during the same event. The observer in Stonington measured 5.38 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. The observer southeast of Bark River measured 4.24 inches over the same period.
1999: On June 22, 1999, severe thunderstorms knocked several trees down in Amasa in the early afternoon.
June 23
1946: On June 23, 1946, strong winds, hail and severe flooding began in the Gogebic range. Bessemer had extensive damage with severe thunderstorms. A portion of the grandstand at the athletic field was torn off by high winds and deposited on a nearby home. Portions of the home's roof caved in leaving a mass of lumber covering the home with parts of the roof in the yard. Huge trees were split and snapped off near the roots.
1992: On June 23, 1992, a record low high temperature of 53F was set at WFO Marquette.
1948: On June 23, 1948, the steel, bulk freight J.P. Morgan, Jr, while carrying iron ore, collided almost perfectly 'bows-on' with steel prop Crete. Neither sank, but both were heavily damaged and two crewmen were crushed to death and three others injured in the foc'sle of Morgan off the Keweenaw Peninsula, MI in Lake Superior.
1930: On June 23, 1930, an F2 tornado touched down in the mid afternoon and moved across Ontonagon and Houghton Counties. The path width was 30 yards and the tornado was on the ground for 13 miles as it moved northeast. It passed just south of Winona. 6 children were injured as summer cottages and a dance pavilion were destroyed 1 mile south of Lake Roland. Damage was $10,000.
2010: On June 23, 2010, an upper level disturbance moving through a moist and unstable airmass generated thunderstorms with heavy rainfall in the Cornell area of Delta County and an isolated severe thunderstorm just north of Menominee in the evening. Strong winds from the storm uprooted a seven-inch diameter tree 4.1 miles north of Menominee. Over four inches of rain fell in a two-hour period causing flash flooding in the Cornell area. The heavy rain washed out portions of County Road I that morning.
2005: On June 23, 2005, trail damage was reported in the back country of Isle Royale National Park, including washouts and other property damage. There was evidence of high flows on the local streams. 
June 24
1946: On June 24, 1946, 3.81 inches of rain fell in Ironwood with 3.5 inches falling in less than an hour and a half at Wakefield. 3.82 inches of rain fell in Watersmeet with 5.4 inches falling at Bergland Dam, 2.65 inches at Iron Mountain, 2.38 inches at Ontonagon, 3.88 inches fell in Stambaugh. In Ironwood, the west end of Cedar Street in the 'flats' district was inundated by the Montreal River. The Black River became obstructed with numerous large trees and logs. This caused three boats to get pushed out into Lake Superior by the current.
1997: On June 24, 1997, a severe thunderstorm with wind gusts to 69 mph made a tree fall across Maple Street in Kingsford in the early evening and a 16-inch diameter tree snapped off 5 miles north of Iron Mountain. A 10-inch diameter branch fell off at the intersection of Hemlock and Ross in Stambaugh. Top 3/4 of a tree, 12 inches in diameter, broke off near Faithorn at 1830 EST.
June 25
1946: On June 25, 1946, numerous roads and bridges were washed out by storms in the Gogebic range from June 23rd to the 25th. 6 inches of rain fell in Ironwood from the 23rd to the 25th. A bridge at M-28 at Kenton washed out forcing a long detour to U.S. 2. The North Bessemer farming community was left isolated with the last round of heavy rain that pushed the Black River and Powder Mill Creek over the bridges on roads leading to this settlement.
1998: On June 25, 1998, an F1 tornado touched down in the late afternoon 8 miles northwest of Escanaba, was on the ground for 15 minutes and lifted in Brampton, MI. The tornado touched down at the intersection of County Road 414 and 533 northwest of Escanaba. The storm damaged the siding and roof of a house under construction. Fiberglass insulation was blown in a random manner and a cover to a hot tub was blown against the side of a tree. Approximately one half mile east, was a storage shed that had collapsed and a pole barn with a door blown in. The parent storm travelled northeast with evidence of another tornado touchdown near M-35 near Brampton, 12 miles north of Escanaba. The damage path was 1 mile long and was 50 yards wide with $25,000 worth of property damage. Strong winds uprooted several trees in and northwest of Escanaba, damaging roofs and windows. Thunderstorm downburst winds downed trees up to 12 inches in diameter in Iron Mountain, Kingsford and Vulcan with gusts up to 81 mph in the mid afternoon. A 60 mph wind gust downed traffic signals in Norway. Several vehicles damaged. There were a total of 16 house and tree fires started by lightning from this storm with $100,000 in property damage in Dickinson County. Strong thunderstorm winds downed power lines throughout Menominee County and downed trees up to 12 inches in diameter from Daggett to Spalding.
2002: On June 25, 2002, large tree limbs were broken off at Felch with a severe thunderstorm and large limbs and small trees were blown down in Iron River. Several 12 inch diameter trees were blown down in Alpha in the late evening. A warm front moved north of Upper Michigan. Daytime temperatures rose well into the 80s away from the cooling influence of the Great Lakes. The uncomfortable heat and humidity triggered the development of scattered thunderstorms. Some of these storms were severe, and penny-sized hail fell at Germfask in Schoolcraft County and Covington in Baraga County during the late afternoon. Another round of locally severe thunderstorms ripped across Upper Michigan overnight on the 25 and 26th, well in advance of an approaching cold front. These storms felled large trees at Ewen in Ontonagon County, at Iron River and Alpha in Iron County, and at Felch in Dickinson County. Hail the size of quarters (1.00 inch) fell near Rock in Delta County. Northland in southern Marquette County was bombarded by even larger hailstones, estimated by spotters to be the size of golf balls (1.75 inch).
2003: On June 25, 2003, scattered showers and thunderstorms moved over the western counties of Upper Michigan early in advance of a strong cold front that moved in from the west. One thunderstorm blew down three trees in Copper Harbor in the early morning, then moved back into Lake Superior. The Copper Harbor ASOS (P59) recorded a wind gust of 61 mph.
June 26
1878: On June 26, 1878, the wood schooner, 3-mast Peshtigo, while carrying 800 tons of coal, collided with the schooner St. Andrews in fog and smoke in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron and sank at 1 a.m. Bound Erie, PA for Chicago. The St. Andrews fell over on the Peshtigo and both vessels sank together in about 9 minutes. Both crews were picked up by the schooner S. V. R. Watson. 2 crew members were killed on the Peshtigo. The wood schooner, 3-mast St. Andrews, while carrying 27,480 bushels of corn, collided with schooner Peshtigo, falling over on her and foundering. Both vessels sank 11.4 miles, 124 deg. from Mackinac Pt., Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron. The collision occurred at night, while St. Andrews was bound Chicago for Buffalo.
2002: On June 26, 2002, a round of locally severe thunderstorms ripped across Upper Michigan overnight on the 25th and 26th, well in advance of an approaching cold front. These storms felled large trees at Ewen in Ontonagon County, at Iron River and Alpha in Iron County, and at Felch in Dickinson County. Hail the size of quarters (1.00 inch) fell near Rock in Delta County. Northland in southern Marquette County was bombarded by even larger hailstones, estimated by spotters to be the size of golf balls (1.75 inch). Several large trees were uprooted 8 miles south of Steuben at 0110 EST.
1979: On June 26, 1979, a severe thunderstorm dropped golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) in Ironwood and 1.00 inch hail (quarter sized) 0.6 mile east of Big Bay in the late morning. Later, golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) fell 0.7 mile southeast of Palmer in the mid afternoon.
1983: On June 26, 1983, a severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts up to 81 mph in Hancock in the early morning.
2007: On June 26, 2007, a cold front moved south from Minnesota, producing severe thunderstorms over Lake Superior. Strong wind gusts of 59 mph were reported in the Port Wing area.
June 27
1936: On June 27, 1936, an F2 tornado briefly touched down in Gogebic County. One large barn was destroyed near Ironwood. Other buildings were damaged with $10,000 worth of damage done.
2001: On June 27, 2001, a severe thunderstorm with 69 mph winds knocked 6-inch diameter trees down in Kiva in the late morning. Quarter sized hail (1 inch) fell 9 miles north of Steuben in the early afternoon. Lake breeze boundaries moving inland, combined with a weak cold front, triggered scattered thunderstorms during the afternoon. Some of the storms produced large hail.
2005: On June 27, 2005, a severe thunderstorm brought four to five trees down on Highway US-45 4 miles south of Watersmeet in the mid afternoon. Tree down blocking southbound lane of Norwich Road 3 miles southwest of Ontonagon in the mid afternoon. Downburst winds downed or uprooted numerous large trees on Highway M-203 3 miles west of Hancock in the late afternoon. Some trees were three to four feet in diameter. Roof was also blown off of a camp. Damage extended from 3 miles west of Hancock to McLain State Park. A large tree was downed on a power line at Calumet. Numerous small trees were down 5 miles southeast of Chassell in the early evening.
1906: On June 27, 1906, the steam tug, composite Alfred W was bound Port Arthur for Duluth. Struck a rock in heavy fog and foundered near Pie Island in Lake Superior. Her crew made it ashore in one of her boats, later picked up by Kaministiquia.
1916: On June 27, 1916, the wood, bulk freight Panther, while carrying grain, was rammed in dense fog by the steamer James J Hill, which was kept running into the hole until Panther's crew clambered aboard. She sank quickly off Whitefish Point in Lake Superior when the Hill backed away.
1991: On June 27, 1991, a severe thunderstorm produced a 60-mph gust in the Portage Canal near Houghton in the early morning. Later, 1.75-inch hail (golf ball sized) fell 0.6 mile northwest of Iron River in the mid evening.
June 28
2010: On June 28, 2010, severe drought conditions continued into June in Eastern Upper Michigan. The first five months of the year were very dry. Thankfully, June would turn out to be a wet month, with Sault Ste Marie picking up well over five inches of rain. Drought conditions eased, and by the end of the month, Eastern Upper Michigan with Chippewa and Mackinac Counties was no longer considered to be in a severe drought.
1961: On June 28, 1961, a severe thunderstorm dropped 1.5-inch hail (ping pong ball sized) 2.1 miles east of Stambaugh in the mid afternoon. A gust to 60 mph occurred 2.8 miles north of Marquette in the mid afternoon.
June 29
1864: On June 29, 1864, the wood schooner 2-mast Alvin Clark, was bound for Oconto, WI in ballast, and foundered in a terrific squall off Chambers Island in the bay of Green Bay. Two crew were saved by the brig Dewitt. A dedicated effort by the tug Sarah E. Bryant in July and August met with no success. Three crew members perished out of the 5 on board.
1901: On June 29, 1901, the wood wrecking tug Fern, while carrying salvage gear, was working in shallow water on the wreck of the propeller Colorado when she was hit by a sudden storm and sank off Eagle River, MI in Lake Superior, a total loss. Her crew was asleep aboard at the time, and none of the 5 escaped. In a separate incident, the wood, bulk freight 'steambarge' Preston, while carrying lumber, was found to be leaking badly in a storm and was abandoned just out of Fort William, Ontario in Lake Superior. One crewman was lost during the rescue by the passenger steamer Athabasca. Rescue of her crew was a rare ship to ship rescue by rocket line. Preston was later found still afloat, apparently buoyed by her cargo, and was recovered.
1958: On June 29, 1958, an F0 tornado touched down in Alger County 9 miles south of Munising in the mid afternoon with a path width of 10 yards and was on the ground for 0.5 mile that caused an estimated property damage of $2500.
1998: On June 29, 1998, a lightning strike killed a fork lift operator at a lumber mill in Shingleton in the mid afternoon. Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on County Road 468 3 miles south of McMillan.
June 30
1891: On June 30, 1891, the city of Marquette's snowiest winter season officially concluded with 189.1 inches from the winter of 1890 to spring 1891.
1996: On June 30, 1996, the all time seasonal snowfall records were set at Alberta of 217.8 inches, Bergland of 284.2 inches, Chatham of 315.5 inches, Herman of 337 inches, Iron River of 114.5 inches during the snow season of 1995-1996.
1939: On June 30, 1939, record rainfall for the month in Marquette of 8.64 inches, the wettest ever.
1901: On June 30, 1901, the wood, package freighter Avon, while carrying flour and general merchandise, fought a big gale near Sault Ste Marie at Point Aux Pins, Ontario and caught fire and burned nearly to the water in the St. Mary's River. Declared a total loss, she was later recovered and rebuilt at great expense. 
1953: On June 30, 1953, an F1 tornado touched down in the early morning 2.1 miles SW of White Pine, MI in Ontonagon County. It was on the ground for 10.9 miles and was 500 yards wide and headed northeast before lifting 9.2 miles NE of White Pine, MI in Lake Superior. It did $250,000 worth of property damage. 
2004: On June 30, 2004, as a deep low pressure center moved east across Ontario on June 30th, numerous showers and thunderstorms developed along the trailing cold front as it crossed Upper Michigan late in the day. Several of the storms turned severe with wind gusts in excess of 60 mph and one-inch hail in Marquette, Alger and Schoolcraft Counties. Large tree branches were broken off 1 mile east of Skandia in the early evening. Trees were blown down across power lines 7 miles northwest of Manistique in the late afternoon.
2005: On June 30, 2005, a severe thunderstorm caused numerous branches down ranging in size from two to eight inches in diameter 9 miles southeast of Marenisco in the early morning. 

From MQT  "Day in Weather History" http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history

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From La Crosse  http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
"This Day in Weather History" contains come memorable weather events and trivia across southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa and southwest into central Wisconsin. Many sources were used to research and compile the data.
June 1

2000: An F1 tornado touched down near Cataract, WI. It sheared off trees, demolished barns and sheds, caused light structural damage to a house, and tossed farmequipment and debris about 600 to 700 yards. It crossed Highway 27 moving west to east. Another F1 tornado moved across Juneau County, WI from 2 miles north of New Lisbon to 4 miles north of Mauston. The damage consisted of sheared or blown down trees, demolished barns and sheds, damaged garages, and light structural damage to homes. Hardest hit were homes and farms along 8th Avenue north of New Lisbon, along Meredith Road north of Mauston, and along Highway 58 north of Mauston. Besides the tornadoes, softball size hail (4") fell in Oakdale, WI. Property damage was estimated to be $250, 000 with and additional $50, 000 in crop damage. Wind gusts of 100 mph were reported (Camp Douglas, WI) as this same storm tracked into Adams County. Property and crop damage were estimated to be around $300, 000 in Adams County. Rainfall amounts on this day: In IA: Cresco (4.12"), Decorah (4.66"), Dorchester (5.13", wettest day on record), Waukon (4.1", wettest June day). In MN: Harmony (5.71", wettest day on record), Rochester (4.81", wettest June day), Preston (4.23", wettest June day), Lanesboro (3.04"). In WI: Platteville (5.98", wettest day on record), Readstown (5.33"), Genoa  (4.9", wettest June day), Steuben (4.88", wettest June day), Lynxville  (4.60", wettest June day), Muscoda (4.10", wettest June day), Richland Center  (3.94"), Necedah (3.75"), Mondovi(3.6"), Cuba City (3.51", wettest June day), Lancaster (3.4").

1993: Decorah, IA (33, coldest June temperature).
See entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1964: Dodge, WI (25), Necedah, WI (28), Hillsboro, WI (32), and Sparta (32) recorded their coldest June temperature.

1958: Curtiss, WI (3.47") rain.

1945: Hillsboro, WI (3.3") rain.

1934: Mather, WI (105), Hatfield, WI (103) and Mondovi, WI (102) had their hottest June temperature.

1916: Decorah, IA (3.5") rain.

1903: Fayette, IA (30, coldest June temperature).

1897: Medford, WI (25), Viroqua, WI (30), Cresco, IA (31), and Lancaster, WI (35) had their coldest June temperature. 
See entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory

June 2

2000: Neillsville, WI (3.1") rain.

1973: An F1 tornado touched down in Trempealeau County, WI.

1943: Lancaster, WI (3.65") rain.

1925: An F2 tornado moved through Clark County WI from Humbird to a mile north of Loyal. It destroyed barns and other buildings on 11 farms, totaling $30, 000 in damage.

1916: Prairie du Chien, WI (4.1") and Mauston, WI (3.01") rain.

1902: Elkader, IA (4.1") rain.

1896: Prairie du Chien (35, coldest June temperature).

June 3

1985: Platteville, WI (36 degrees, coldest June temperature).

1974:  An F1 tornado touched down during the late afternoon in Mitchell County, IA..

1946: New Hampton, IA (34, coldest June temperature).

June 4

2005: A warm front swept through Wisconsin on this day, which triggered thunderstorms and a few tornadoes as it moved north during the late afternoon. Thunderstorms formed in the middle afternoon in western and central Wisconsin, then moved northeast of Interstate 94 before intensifying and eventually producing a few brief tornado touchdowns in parts of Clark and Taylor Counties in central and north central Wisconsin. There were no reports of injuries or deaths

2002: Rainfall amounts of 3.5-5" produced flash flooding in and near the town of Cassville, WI. Furnace Creek, which flows into the northwest part of town, was choked with so much debris that the flow of the water was diverted into nearby homes and a park. Twenty-five homes had to be evacuated with 8 homes receiving significant damage. One home was destroyed when the basement collapsed. Local residents also reported cars floating in water 2 to 3 feet deep.

1998: Neillsville, WI (22, coldest June temperature).

1987: Preston, MN (31, coldest June temperature).

1973: A new home in Ossian, IA had part of its roof blown off by an F2 tornado.

1969: Barns and other buildings were destroyed or damaged on 20 farms from Union to Belmont (Grant County, WI) by an F2 tornado. Only the shell of one house remained. Another F2 tornado moved south southeast across Grant and Lafayette Counties in southwest WI from 4 miles north of Cassville to 5 miles east northeast of Cassville. Over 30 head of cattle were killed when a barn collapsed. Buildings on three farms were destroyed.

1966: La Crosse, WI (2.09") rain.

1959: Grand Meadow, MN (3.13") rain.

1958: An F4 tornado traveled from 2 miles southeast of Cadott, WI to Curtiss, WI. Four deaths occurred in farm houses south of Boyd and Stanley (Chippewa County). Rochester, MN (4.02") and Grand Meadow, MN (3.95") rain.

1945: La Crosse, WI (32) and Waukon, IA (32) had their latest spring freeze and their coldest June temperature. Mondovi, WI (29) and Richland Center, WI (31) also recorded their coldest June temperature.

1925: Neillsville, WI (3.29") rain.

1914: Medford, WI (5.93") rain.

1890: An F3 tornado moved northeast from 6 miles south southwest of Chester, IA destroying a home and a school 3 miles south of Chester. A teacher and 10 students were injured at the school and one student lingered near death for days. Hogs were carried for up to 2 miles. Bedding from one home was found in trees about 2 miles from its foundation.

June 5

1997: Spotters reported a weak F0 tornado touching down in an open field just northwest of Utica, MN.

1980: An F3 tornado moved southeast from near Stoddard to Chaseburg, Viroqua, and Readstown in Vernon County, WI. Eight residences, 30 barns, and 200 other rural structures were damaged or destroyed by the tornado and its accompanying downburst winds. The injury occurred when a trailer was destroyed. An F2 tornado touched down 2 miles southeast of Lewiston, MN. It destroyed all the barns and outbuildings on a farm. Witnesses reported three funnels that traveled a wide area. Another F2 tornado moved from 2 miles south of St. Joseph, WI to a mile west of Coon Valley, WI (Vernon County). This tornado damaged several barns and four homes. One home was unroofed. One barn was destroyed and nine cattle were killed. Also, on this date, additional weak tornadoes touched down in Olmsted County, MN (F1) and in Dodge County, MN (F0).

1958: Owen, WI (3.16") rain.

1951: Oelwein, IA (36, coldest June temperature).

1905: Medford, WI (8", wettest day on record).

1892: Grand Meadow, MN (5", wettest June day).

June 6

1980: Curtiss, WI (3.96", wettest June day), Owen, WI (3.8", wettest June day), and Medford, WI (3.63") rain.

1915: Medford, WI (3.08") rain.

1914: Grand Meadow, MN (4.43") and Winona (4.42", wettest day on record) rain.

1906: An F4 tornado moved east-northeast from 3 miles southwest of Caledonia, MN, crossing the Mississippi River about 12 miles south of La Crosse, WI, and dissipated 10 miles northeast of Coon Valley, WI. A mother and two children were killed as their farm near Freeburg, MN was leveled. One child was carried about half a mile. Fifteen people were injured in rural Minnesota homes. Fourteen homes were damaged or destroyed in Wisconsin, with 1 death occurring 2 miles east of Stoddard. An F3 tornado moved east-northeast out of Winneshiek County, IA destroying a large brick home southeast of Newhouse, MN just inside the Minnesota border. Clothes from the home were found over three miles away. One boy was severely injured, and may have died later. He had been closing windows on the second floor when the tornado struck. Also, on this date, an F2 tornado touched down just southeast of Sparta, WI and it moved north-northeast to near the Jackson County, WI border. The worse damage was east of Angelo, where "trees and barns were torn to shreds". About a dozen farms were damaged.

1902: Elkader, IA (4.1", wettest June day).

June 7

2008: Severe thunderstorms raked the area, bringing hail over an inch in size, wind gusts of 60 mph or greater, and heavy rainfall leading to areas of flash flooding. In addition, this system spawned 6 tornadoes across the local area, mostly in the weaker categories of EF0-EF1. One tornado (EF1) occurred at 545 pm near Barre Mills, WI. Another tornado touched down about 1-2 miles south of Liberty Pole, WI (EF0) while a tornado touched down in Grant County across the Wisconsin River from Wauzeka, Wisconsin (EF0). Another touchdown was confirmed in northwest Houston County just south of the Winona-Houston County line at 450 pm (EF0). A tornado (EF0) touched down between 445-450 pm in Staceyville, Iowa. Perhaps the first one of the day hit rural southeast Adams County, Wisconsin and crossed into Marquette County, WI about 2.5 miles north of Briggsville (EF0-EF1).

1984: An F2 tornado struck in the southern outskirts of Austin, MN knocking down trees and farm buildings before moving northeast. The heaviest damage occurred at abowling alley in southeast Austin off Highway 218. The roof on the east side of the building and one wall were blown off. Debris was blown inside the building as well as across the street. Three cars in the parking lot were tossed about and a truck driver broke a collarbone when his truck was blown off Highway 218. The tornado also destroyed ahome and TV repair shop across the street from the bowling alley before crossing an openfield. The tornado went on to cause damage to the Austin Country Club and flipped over a mobile home east of Austin before dissipating. Seven people were injured. Another F2 tornado touched down in Chippewa County, WI and moved east-northeast to Withee Township in Clark County, WI. On one farm, two barns and machine sheds were flattened, along with a silo snapped in half. The tornado destroyed two other barns and sheds along the way. Some house damage was also reported. Several large trees were snapped or uprooted, including 13 in one yard. Also, on this date, an F1 tornado toucheddown at a farm site 3 miles east of Douglas, MN and moved north. The tornado ripped one barn apart and scattered debris for 300 yards. A second barn was lifted from its foundation and destroyed. Trees were uprooted at the farm site and debris was found twisted. 
See http://www.weather.gov/mkx/060884-barneveld-tor 

1971: Weak tornadoes touched down in Wabasha County, MN (F0) and between Bagley and Wyalusing, WI (F1) in Grant County. Neither tornado caused any injuries or deaths.

1970: Two F0 tornadoes were reported in Olmsted County, MN.

1967: An F0 tornado touched down briefly near Bloomington, WI during the evening. It caused no injuries or deaths.

1912: Mauston, WI (30, coldest June temperature).

1908: An F3 tornado touched down in Hillsboro, WI and then moved northeast to just southeast of Mauston, WI. About 4 miles south of Mauston, the tornado killed a farmer and his son as they ran for their storm cellar. Another F3 tornado tracked northeast from 9 miles northwest of Charles City, IA to 2 miles northeast of Charles City. It left only the floor boards on a small farm house about 5 miles northwest of Charles City. In the east part of Charles City, 5 homes were destroyed and 20 others were severely damaged. A man was killed by a falling chimney and ten others were injured. About 200 buildings were damaged.

1902: Based strictly on climatology, rain has fallen in La Crosse, WI on this day more often than any other, around 50% of the time.

1899: An F3 tornado moved north northeast from 2 miles northwest of Lewiston, MN, crossing the Mississippi River 6 miles northwest of Winona, and cutting a path through the Waumandee Valley in Wisconsin. There was little damage in Minnesota, but homes and barns were swept away in Wisconsin, and all 5 injuries occurred there. Over 50 hogs were killed on Wisconsin farm.

1885: A tornado occurred in Vernon County, WI around 1 PM.

June 8

2008: After heavy rains and severe weather from the 7th, a lingering warm front across the area lead to further storm development on the 8th, resulting in more heavy rains. This rainfall exasperated the already dangerous flooding conditions across parts of southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa, and southwest into central Wisconsin…resulting in a flood of historic proportions. Many roads were already closed from the Saturday (the 7th) rain due to water over the roadways, mudslides, or partial washouts. The Sunday rains worsened the conditions, leading to more road closures, sandbagging, and some evacuations. Some area rivers responded with a foot per hour rises, while others eventually exceeded their river gauges ability to record the river levels. These gauges were under water themselves! All-time record crests were set at a few locations, with top 5 records at many others. A listing of some of the record crests with all-time rank, at the time of this event: Upper Iowa River at Dorchester 22.5 ft (all-time record) and Decorah 17.9 ft (all-time record). The Turkey River at Elkader 30.9 ft (all-time record), El Dorado 22.11 ft (all-time record), and Garber 29.13 ft (4th on record). The Cedar River at Charles City 25.55 ft (all-time record). The Kickapoo River at La Farge 15.88 ft (all-time record), Viola 21.25 ft (all-time record), Readstown 19.65 ft (all-time record), Soldiers Grove 21.21 ft (2nd on record), Gays Mills 20.44 ft (all-time record), and Steuben 19.15 ft (all-time record). Some 2-day rainfall totals (7th and 8th) from this event: In IA: Dorchester (7.30"), Edgewood (7.28"), Bluffton (7.23"), Kendallville (7.00"), Decorah (6.60"), Elma (6.25"), Ion (6.14"), St. Ansgar (5.64"), Lansing (5.35"), Fort Atkinson (5.30"), Wacoma (5.24"), and Osage (5.13"). In MN: Reno (10.10"), Harmony (7.35"), Brownsville (6.10"), and La Crescent (5.41"). In WI: Ontario (9.84"), Westby (9.24"), Valley (9.00"), Viroqua (8.46"), Hillsboro (7.55"), La Farge (7.53"), Stoddard (6.83"), Desoto (6.58"), Necedah (5.98"), Steuben (5.37"), Wilton (5.25"), and Rockville (5.15").
See also "Historic flooding of 7-8 June 2008"   http://www.weather.gov/arx/jun0808 
for hydrographs and pictures

1993: An F2 tornado struck four farmsteads, damaging one severely, just southeast of Osage, IA. Several small out buildings and barns were damaged but the farm houses were spared. Two F0 tornadoes touched down in Olmsted County, MN in Dover and Pleasant Grove, three F0 tornadoes in Mower County, MN in Dexter and just south of Leroy and Grand Meadow, and an F0 tornado touched down ten miles south of Spring Valley. On this same date, eighteen other tornadoes touched down in Wisconsin. Prairie du Chien, WI (3.22") rain.

1985: Osage, IA (101, hottest June temperature).

1984: Osage, IA (3.39") and Harmony, MN (3.30") rain.
See discussion of tornado outbreak that produced Barnveld tornado 
http://www.weather.gov/mkx/060884-barneveld-tor

1967: Wind gusts of 80 mph or greater were produced by thunderstorms moving across La Crosse County, WI. A small F1 tornado traveled east for about 8 miles starting 1.5 miles east of Mt. Tabor, WI to Union Center, WI. It caused no injuries or deaths.

1963: Wind gusts topped 100 mph in Winona County, MN and 80 mph in La Crosse County, WI.

1934: Rochester, MN (2.2") rain.

1933: 1-inch diameter hail fell in La Crosse. The hail caused $200 in damage to greenhouse windows.

1901: Grand Meadow, MN (32) (also latest spring frost) and Osage, IA (34) recorded their coldest June temperature. 

June 9

1985: Preston, MN (100) and Caledonia, MN (97) recorded their warmest June temperature.

1974: F1 tornadoes occurred in Olmsted (MN) and Adams (WI) Counties. CharlesCity, IA (3.42") and New Hampton, IA (3.06") rain.

1967: Harmony, MN (4"), Readstown, WI (3.74"), and Hillsboro, WI (3.27") rain.

1963: Oelwein, IA (3.52") rain.

1937: Rochester, MN (31) (also latest spring freeze) and Winona, MN (35) recorded their coldest June temperature.

1901: Charles City, IA (34, coldest June temperature).

June 10

1972: Jump River, WI (23), Blair, WI (28), Owen, WI (28), Alma, WI (38), Genoa, WI (38), Trempealeau, WI (38), Lynxville, WI (40) all had their coldest June temperature.

1968: Baseball sized hail (2.75") struck Trempealeau County, WI.

1961: A weak F1 tornado touched down in Dodge County, MN.

1960: An F1 tornado occurred during the evening in Houston County, MN.

1946: Hatfield, WI (3.88") rain.

1922: Neillsville, WI (4.05") rain.

1913: Mather, WI (30, coldest June temperature).

1900: Charles City, IA (3.4") and New Hampton, IA (3") rain.

1897: An F4 tornado moved slowly east northeast from 5 miles west of Lyle, MN to 1 mile north of Lyle. At least 20 farms that were hit had every building swept away. Seven farm homes were destroyed. The only confirmed death was a man in a barn 3 miles west of Lyle. The family was building a new home and they were eating supper in the barn. Much of the track was 1 mile north of the Iowa border. Two other people may have died. This tornado also caused 22 injuries. The tornado caused an estimated $30, 000 damage. 

June 11

2004: Six tornadoes occurred in southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa during the late afternoon and early evening. The most significant of these tornadoes was an F3 tornado which touched down 2 miles north of Riceville, IA (Howard County) and then moved north 12 miles. This tornado dissipated 2 miles northwest of Le Roy, MN (Mower County) and destroyed a home (built in 1900) and several buildings on the Minnesota/Iowa state line. It also heavily damaged Koch Industries Grain Company about 2 miles west of Le Roy.

1999: Marble Rock, IA (4.02", wettest June day).

1966: An F2 tornado occurred during the evening in Mitchell County, IA.

1956: Alma, WI (101, hottest temperature on record).

1942: Richland Center, WI (3.11") rain.

1941: Elkader, IA (3.2") rain.

1929: Rochester, MN (3.67") rain.

1925: An F2 tornado skipped northeast across Floyd County, IA from 2 miles south of Marble Rock through Carrville (where homes were unroofed). Total damage estimates totalled $10, 000. At the same time, another F2 tornado developed in a meeting place known as "Farmers Grove", IA (Butler County) and moved north to 5 miles northwest of Greene, IA. All of trees were mowed down near Farmers Grove and all barns were destroyed on one farm about 5 miles northwest of Greene. Charles City, IA (3.66") rain.

1899: St. Charles, MN (5.3") rain.

1883: An F3 tornado moved northeast passing across the southern part of Elkport, IA. Fifteen farms lost barns or other buildings in rural areas. Three homes were destroyed and others unroofed in town. The tornado caused an estimated $85, 000 worth of damage and injured 8 people.

1880: an F2 tornado destroyed barns on 2 farms and one person may have died near Browndale, MN. Also on this date, a tornado occurred in Monroe County, WI. 

June 12

2008: Strong to severe thunderstorms, causing damaging winds, a tornado, and flash flooding, hit mainly southern Wisconsin on this day (Thursday afternoon and evening). Particularly hard hit was Grant County, WI, where flash flooding closed numerous roads, destroyed 2 homes, and forced evacuations and rescues. Many secondary roads and bridges were damaged due to the flooding. A few rainfall amounts from this event: In IA: Edgewood (2.51”), Garber (1.47”), Wacoma (1.22”). In WI: Lancaster (4.18”), Rockville (3.15”), Burton (2.74”), Hub City (1.76”), and Cuba City (1.45”).

2001: Mauston, WI (3.52") and Blair, WI (3.12") rain.

1994: An F1 tornado moved east across Grant County, WI from just northeast of Patch Grove to just south of Mt. Hope. It ripped a roof from a large hay barn, threw over a grain elevator, damaged several homes and leveled numerous three and power lines.

1990: An F1 tornado moved east across Winneshiek County, IA from 2 miles southeast of Ossian to 2 miles northwest of Castalia. It moved a mobile home off of its foundation. An F1 tornado caused major damage to two farmsteads near El Dorado, IA. In addition to these two tornadoes, F0 tornadoes touched down in Fort Atkinson, IA and 3 miles west of West Union, IA.

1976: Grant County, WI reported baseball sized hail (2.75") and an F1 tornado touched down in Mower County, MN.

1950: Dorchester, IA (3.2") rain.

1947: Charles City, IA (3.72", wettest June day).

1943: Austin, MN (3.06") rain.

1925: Osage, IA (4.43"), Mather, WI (3.76"), and Mondovi, WI (3.1") rain.

1915: An F4 tornado moved northeast from northwest of Waterville, IA crossing the Mississippi River 2 miles south of Ferryville, WI. The last damage ended near Soldiers Grove. A man and his daughter were killed in one of three homes that were obliterated southwest of "Heytman", a small railroad station on the Mississippi River. Sixty buildings and 8 homes were destroyed in Wisconsin. This tornado caused approximately $200, 000 in damage. In addition to this tornado, an F2 tornado moved northeast across Fayette and Clayton Counties in northeast Iowa from 3 miles south of West Union to 2 miles south of Postville. One farm was "devastated", the house and barn leveled. Heavy machinery was thrown 300 yards. Clothing was carried two miles. A man was injured in a barn near the end of the path.

1899: Minnesota City, MN (8") and La Crosse (3.01") rain.
See early entry for date on http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory concerning the Circus Day tornado in New Richmond, WI. 

June 13

2001: Dodge Center, MN (3.43", wettest June day).

2000: An outbuilding was destroyed and several trees were uprooted by an F0 tornadonear Fredricksburg, IA). Osage, IA (3.2") and Rochester, MN (2.90") rain.

1990: An F2 tornado damaged farm buildings as it moved east northeast acrossClayton County, IA from Elkader to just northwest of Garnavillo. Rainfall amounts ranged from: Wabasha, MN (4.12"), Mondovi, WI (3.74"), Alma, WI (3.73", wettest June day), Blair, WI (3.45").

1972: An F1 tornado occurred during the evening in Richland County, WI.

1950: The following rainfall amounts were recorded: In MN: Theilman (5.10", wettest June day), Elgin (4.9", wettest June day), Rushford (4.5", wettest June day), Lake City (4.25"), Caledonia (3.97", wettest June day), Zumbro Falls (3.71").In WI: Trempealeau (3.35"), Hatfield (3.09").

1947: Rainfall fell in the amounts of: In IA: Decorah (3.9"), Guttenberg (3.6"), New Hampton (3.52"), Lansing (3.43").In WI: Lancaster (4.1", wettest June day), Muscoda (3.63"), Prairie du Chien (3.52"), Richland Center (3.4"), Viroqua (3.11"), Genoa (3.09").

1930: A very large tornado (F4) destroyed 6 farms, sweeping away all buildings fromthree of them, as it moved from 5 miles north of Austin, MN to Oslo, MN. In Oslo, itdestroyed the town hall. Damage was estimated at $75, 000. Another tornado movedthrough western Trempealeau County, northern Jackson County, eastern Clark County, and northwestern Marathon County in west central Wisconsin. It caused no injuries ordeaths. This was one of six tornadoes to occur in west central Wisconsin on this datebetween 4PM and 8 PM. Oelwein, IA (3.45") and Fayette, IA (3.13") rain.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory

1925: An F2 tornado skipped southeast from 3 miles north of Blooming Prairie, MN to 5 miles east of Grand Meadow, MN. Barns were destroyed near the starting and ending points. Damage in the southeast part of Hayfield totalled $75, 000 as at least a dozen homes were unroofed and many smaller buildings were destroyed. Losses outside Hayfield totaled $8, 000. Another F2 tornado moved across Juneau County, WI from Elroy to Lindina Township. It destroyed a barn and several silos. Several homes were partly unroofed, with damage estimates of $30, 000.

1914: Osage, IA (6.31") and New Hampton, IA (4.96") had their wettest June day.

1899: Grand Meadow, MN (3.75") rain.

June 14

2000: Lynxville, WI (3.25") and Charles City, IA (3.1") rain.

1981: Thunderstorms gusts exceed 80 mph in Buffalo County, WI.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history and 
at http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory

1974: A weak F1 tornado touched down in Monroe County, WI and baseball size(2.75") was reported in Richland County, WI.

1930: Neillsville, WI (3.77") rain.

1916: Lancaster, WI (3.48") rain.

1887: Rochester, MN (2.42") rain.

June 15

1997: Thunderstorm wind gusts of 80 mph blew through De Soto and Newry, WI. Property damage was over $50, 000 and two injuries were reported.

1991: Record flooding occurred on the Turkey River. The flood was preceded by several months of well above normal precipitation. Beginning late on the 14th and continuing into the 15th, torrential rainfall fell across the region. Unofficial rainfall reports far exceeded the official ones, with the USGS DCP at Luana (Clayton county) reporting 13.96" and 9.28" five miles south of Postville. Both Monona (Clayton county) and Fayette reported unofficial amounts of 13". Damage was widespread and nearly catastrophic across Fayette and Clayton counties, exceeding $3 million in non-agricultural losses. Numerous bridges and roads washed out and many homes were damaged. Official rainfall amounts on this day ranged from: Prairie du Chien (4.53", wettest June day), Lancaster (3.65"), Platteville (3.03"), Richland Center (3"). In IA: Guttenberg (4.5", wettest June day), Postville (4.30"), Elkader (3.28"), Waucoma (3.05").

1981: Platteville, WI (3.71") rain.

1978: Charles City, IA (3.56") and Marble Rock, IA (3.42") rain.

1967: An F1 tornado touched down in both Trempealeau (2 miles west of Galesville, WI) and Winona (MN) Counties and an F0 tornado occurred in La Crosse County, WI (2miles east of Mindoro). None of the tornadoes caused any injuries or deaths.

1925: Oelwein, IA (6.5", wettest June day).

1920: La Crosse, WI (2.91") rain.

1892: Grand Meadow, MN (5") rain.

June 16

2001: Elgin, MN (3.89") rain.

1997: Guttenberg, IA (3.69"), Muscoda, WI (3.53"), Platteville, WI (3.28"), and Lancaster, WI (3.1") rain.

1996: an F0 tornado moved east across southern Fayette County, IA from 6 miles north of Oelwein to 5 miles west of Arlington. The tornado did not do much damage as it was only on the ground intermittently and over open farm land. Also on this date, local law enforcement officials reported an F0 tornado touched down near the town of Bagley, WI on the Mississippi River. Rochester, MN (2.11") rain.

1990: an F1 tornado moved east across Floyd County, IA from 3 miles northeast of Nora Springs to 5.5 miles north of Rudd. Extensive damage occurred when several farmsteads were hit in the northwest part of the Floyd County.

1984: An F0 tornado touched down during the evening 2 miles west of Charles City, IA. Ontario, WI (5.70", wettest June day), La Crosse, WI (3.82", wettest June day), Hokah, MN (3.75", wettest June day), Hillsboro, WI (3.17").

1979: An F1 tornado touched down in Trempealeau County, WI. Jump River, WI (3.25", wettest June day).

1978: Prairie du Chien, WI (3.7") and Lancaster, WI (3") rain.

1967: La Crescent, MN (3.25") and Sparta, WI (3.03") rain.

1964: Guttenberg, IA (40, coldest June temperature).

1954: Austin, MN (3.30", wettest June day).

1946:  An F2 tornado touched down initially 5 miles north of Grand Meadow, MN and tracked east-northeast passing just northwest of Racine, MN. Five farms lost buildings. One small house was destroyed, a rural school was leveled, and at least two barns were destroyed causing $15, 000 of damage.

1944: Postville, IA (3.02") rain.

1920: Richland Center, WI (4.14") rain.

June 17

2010: Supercell thunderstorms developed across southern Minnesota during the afternoon of Thursday, June 17th, initially producing tornadoes and large hail. These storms then developed a line of damaging wind gusts that moved through parts of Rochester, MN and eventually grew to produce strong to severe winds across much of southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa, and into western Wisconsin in the evening hours. There were numerous reports of 60 to 80 mph winds with trees down, power lines down, and building damage. The worst wind damage occurred in two swaths - the first from near Rochester east to Winona and into rural areas of Buffalo and Trempealeau Counties in western Wisconsin. The other moved across northern Iowa into southwest Wisconsin with sporadic damage and winds up to 70 mph. There were 4 tornado touchdowns: southwest of Clermont, MN (EF0), northeast of Blooming Prairie, MN (EF1), northwest of Rochester, MN (EF1), west of Cream, WI (EF1).
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory

2009: A surface boundary extended from southern Minnesota into northeast Iowa on Wednesday, June 17th. Warm and moist air pooled into this boundary, leading to shower and thunderstorm development by early evening. The atmosphere was unstable enough, and wind profiles favorable for storm development, that some of the storms became strong to severe very rapidly, producing large hail and a couple tornadoes. The confirmed tornadoes were located in Mower County, MN - in and around Austin (EF2) and several miles west of LeRoy. Hail as large as 3 inches fell in Blooming Prairie, MN, while golf ball sized hail (1 3/4) fell at several other locations across southeast MN and northeast IA.

1996: Record rainfall fell on this day, with amounts ranging from: In IA: Fayette (3.29", wettest June day). In MN: Harmony (3.30"). In WI: Readstown (6.25", wettest day on record), Westby (4.20", wettest June day), Cashton (4.04", wettest June day), Hillsboro (3.91", wettest June day).

1993: La Crosse, WI (2.83") and Rochester, MN (2.06") rain.

1987: A small tornado touched down briefly at McDonald Island (5 miles west of Eastman in Crawford County, WI) and it knocked down some trees.

1984: A weak F0 tornado touched down just west of Mazeppa, MN along the Goodhue and Wabasha County line. Meanwhile, another weak F0 tornado touched down in Alma, WI. Several witnesses described the tail of a small tornado dipping down to a marina, lifting large metal docks and tossing them around, ramming a covered dock into the bank, and pushing a 40 foot ramp to the top of the roadway. Rainfall amounts from this day: Mauston, WI (3.82"), La Crescent, MN (3.55", wettest June day), Sparta, WI (3.2"), Cashton, WI (3.06").

1979: Medford, WI (3.17") rain.

1978: Rainfall amounts on this day ranged from: In IA: Dorchester (4.55"), Lansing (3.53"), Waukon (3.02"). In WI: Richland Center (4.56"), Lynxville (4.12"), Readstown (4.02"), Viroqua (3.81"), Platteville (3.03").

1962: A weak F1 tornado occurred in Olmsted County, MN.

1899: An F3 tornado moved north northeast from 2 miles northwest of Lewiston, MN, crossing the Mississippi River 6 miles northwest of Winona, and then cutting a path through the Waumandee Valley in Wisconsin. There was little damage in Minnesota, but homes and barns were swept away in Wisconsin, and all injuries occurred there. Over 50 hogs were killed on Wisconsin farm. This tornado also caused 5 injuries.

1864: A tornado occurred in Vernon County, WI.

June 18

1998: Several homes were damaged and hundreds of trees were knocked down in Lancaster, WI by an F0 tornado. This tornado also injured one person.

1996: Preston, MN (3.73") rain.

1991: An F1 tornado moved south across Chickasaw County, IA from 3 miles east of New Hampton to 6 miles southeast of New Hampton. Trees were blown down and hail up to tennis ball size was reported.

1987: Genoa, WI (101, hottest June temperature).

1984: The rain began to fall in Caledonia, MN on the 17th and continued into the 18th. The total rainfall amount for these two days was 6.55".

1974: Thunderstorm wind gusts around 83 mph and a weak F1 tornado caused 2 injuries in Olmsted County, MN.

1954: An F2 tornado touched down during the early evening in Hixton, WI.

1932: Oelwein, IA (3.2") rain.

1904: Osage, IA (3.2") rain.

June 19

1997: an F0 briefly touched down 2 miles northwest of Harmony, MN. The same thunderstorm also produced golf ball size hail near Harmony.

1996: Ontario, WI (3.75") rain.

1993: minor tree damage was reported and power lines were knocked down by F0 tornadoes in Grant County, WI just northeast of Georgetown, 3 miles south of Platteville, and near Sinsinawa. Elgin, MN (3.73") and La Crosse, WI (3.12") rain.

1992: a pickup truck was lifted off a road and rotated by an F1 tornado 4 1/2 miles south of Elkader, IA. A radio tower was also knocked down. The tornado was over open country most of the time. In addition to this tornado, an F0 tornado hit a farmstead destroying a barn and topping a few trees just west and northwest of Elkader, IA.

1979: an F0 tornado touched down during the evening in Winneshiek County, IA.

1971: Olmsted County, MN reported thunderstorm spawned wind gusts up to 86 mph.

1954: Alma, WI (3.2"), Blair, WI (3.18"), Mather, WI (3.18"), and Minnesota City, MN (3.01", wettest June day) rain.

1937: an F2 tornado moved east-northeast from west of Riceville, IA, passing near Davis Corners, northwest of Cresco, to near Kendallville, IA. A half dozen barns were damaged or destroyed. Beyond Kendallville downburst damage in Winneshiek County totaled $100, 000.

1931: an F2 tornado moved northeast across Chickasaw and Howard Counties in northeast Iowa from Deerfield to 2 miles southeast of Lourdes. Barns were destroyed on four farms. Total damage estimates were $62, 000.

1904: Charles City, IA (3.67") rain.

1890: St. Charles, MN (3.2") rain.

June 20

1998: A line of storms produced wind gusts to 70 mph with wide spread wind damage over northeast Iowa and southeast Minnesota. Hardest hit were communities along Highway 44 in Fillmore and Houston Counties in southeast Minnesota.

1997: Thunderstorm wind gusts hit right around midnight exceeding 80 mph in Oelwein, IA. Property damage was in excess of $50, 000.

1988: In WI: Dodge (101), Platteville (101), Lynxville (100), and Mauston (100) recorded their hottest June temperature.

1987: Waucoma, IA (4.5") rain.

1971: Osage, IA (4.09") rain.

1968: An F0 tornado touched down in Winona County, WI.

1964: An F1 tornado touched down briefly in Mondovi, WI during the afternoon. It caused no injuries or deaths.

1937: One barn was destroyed by an F2 tornado 3 miles east of Protovin, IA. Damage was estimated at $8, 000.

1933: La Crosse, WI (102 degrees, hottest June temperature tied with 7/21/1988). ?

1921: Mondovi, WI (3.61") rain.

1908: Decorah, IA (3.9") rain.

June 21

2002: Law enforcement officials observed a brief F0 tornado touchdown along Highway 18 near Ionia, IA (Chickasaw County) during the early evening. There was no damage reported with this tornado; however, golf ball size hail near the tornado did cause some damage.

1992: Austin, MN (35) low temperature.

1991: Jump River, WI (3.19") rain.

1988: Record June high temperatures for this day: In IA: Elkader (103), Guttenberg (101), Cresco (100), Oelwein (100), Waukon (96). In MN: Austin (100, also hottest day on record), Theilman (100). In WI: Richland Center (103), La Crosse (102), Necedah (101), Hillsboro (100), Sparta (100).

1974: Rainfall totals for this day: In IA: Dorchester (4.65"), Waukon (3.58"), Guttenberg (3.43"), Elkader (3"). In MN: Lanesboro (5.28", wettest June day), Elgin (3.96"), Caledonia (3.01"). In WI: Prairie du Chien (3.66").

1968: Trempealeau, WI (4.26", wettest June day), Galesville, WI (3.85", wettest Juneday), Winona, MN (3.55"), and Dodge, WI (3.00", wettest June day) rain.

1908: Prairie du Chien, WI (3.47") rain.

June 22

2002: Repeated thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flash flooding over parts of central Wisconsin during the overnight hours of June 21-22nd. Hardest hit was northeast Adams County where Doppler radar estimated total amounts of 15" of rain. Cooperative weather observers reported 5" of rain at Big Flats, WI, 7" in Leola, WI, with up to 12" reported just north and east of Leola. Numerous roads were closed or badly eroded, with many bridges washed out. Area lakes were full, while levees and dikes nearly breached. Many basements and septic fields flooded out.

1988: Decorah, IA (101) and Blair, WI (100) recorded their hottest June temperature.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory

1984: An F0 touched down briefly 5 miles south of Charles City, IA.

1975: A thunderstorm produced wind gusts up to 85 mph in Grant County, WI.

1964: Dorchester, IA (4.75") rain.

1944: An F4 tornado moved toward the southeast from near Fennimore, WI into northern Illinois (10 miles east northeast of Freeport). Seven people were killed and 65 were injured inWisconsin (2 people died and 13 were injured in Illinois). Total damage was estimated at $2 million. Also, on this date, an F2 tornado moved east-northeast from near Finley, WI, passing along the edge of Nekoosa, and south of Port Edwards, WI. At least 13 barns were damaged or destroyed totaling $20, 000.

1940: Neillsville, WI (4.53") and Mauston, WI (3.3") rain.

1930: Charles City, IA (3.1") rain.

1892: An F3 tornado zig zagged east and southeast across Bremer and Chickasaw Counties in northeast Iowa. An elderly woman was killed in one of the eight farm houses that were torn apart and scattered. Horses and cattle were killed on many of 25 farms that were damaged. Eight injuries and one death occurred in Chickasaw County.

June 23

2010: Thunderstorms developed over northwest Iowa Tuesday evening (the 22nd), becoming widespread across southern Minnesota and northern Iowa in the late evening as they moved east into southwest Wisconsin. Very heavy rain with amounts locally over 3 inches, and sporadic wind damage and an isolated tornado occurred overnight. Lightning was also prevalent. Worst hit areas: east of Sumner, IA with estimated 90 mph straight-line winds, damaged outbuildings, trees, and power lines, and north of Aurora, IA with estimated 70-90 mph straight-line winds, damaged trees and buildings. The tornado was northeast of Galesville, WI (EF0). Some rainfall totals from these storms…in IA: Stacyville 3.00, Osage 2.60, Riceville 2.50, Charles City 2.13. Lansing 1.77, Cresco 1.75, Ionia 1.67. In MN: Reno 3.71, Caledonia 3.49, Leroy 3.20, La Crescent 2.62, Houston 2.49, Peterson 2.39, Mound Prairie 2.30, Harmony 2.07, Lanesboro 2.00, Preston 1.79, Rochester 1.73. In WI: Goose Island 3.50, Stoddard 3.10, Readstown 3.04, Viola 3.00, Genoa 2.74, Westby 2.44, Viroqua 2.28, Soldiers Grove 2.25, La Farge 2.15, Ontario 2.01, Westby 2.01, La Crosse 1.90, Richland Center 1.87, Leon 1.85, West Salem 1.72.

2004: A line of thunderstorms that moved out of Minnesota produced wind damage, hail, and four F1 tornadoes in west central and central Wisconsin. One of these tornadoes in Monroe County, WI struck the Jellystone Campground near Warrens. It injured 4 campers. One gentleman was seriously injured when a tree fell on him during a rescue attempt.

1992: An F0 tornado touched down near St. Lucas, IA). This same thunderstorm produced large hail which damaged crops between St.Lucas and Fayette.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory and
http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history 

1981: An F1 tornado touched down in La Crosse County, WI during the evening.

1964: Decorah, IA (4.99", wettest June day) and Waucoma, IA (3.45") rain.

1962: An F2 tornado touched down briefly during the afternoon in Thorp, WI. It caused no injuries or deaths.

1952: Rochester, MN (4.01") and La Crosse, WI (3.42") rain.

1919: An F3 tornado touched down 5 miles northeast of Nashua, IA. Two farms were devastated by a tornado for the second year in a row. The house and barns had just been rebuilt after being destroyed in the 1918 tornado. A woman was injured by falling cement blocks in her cellar. A half dozen farms were damaged. Estimates of damage totaled $60, 000. Also, on this date, an unusual F2 tornado "smashed barns to kindling" and killed horses and cattle just southeast of Riceville, IA. The funnel made a complete loop and crossed its own path, all within a small area of Douglas Township. Some eye witnesses claimed that there were three tornadoes, and that two followed the exact same looping path.

1917: Grand Meadow, MN (3.56") rain.

1908: Grand Meadow, MN (4.25") and Rochester, MN (4.10") rain.

1894: Grand Meadow, MN (3.10") rain.

1890: An F2 tornado moved east southeast across Mitchell and Howard Counties, IA from northwest of Riceville to about 1 mile south of Saratoga. Ten barns were damaged or destroyed across Howard County. One home near Saratoga was shifted 8 feet, another was unroofed, and another house was hit by trees and lost its kitchen. St Charles, MN (3.22") rain. 

June 24

1998: A weak F0 tornado touched down briefly in a corn field 2 miles south of Byron, MN.

1994: Guttenberg, IA (3.44"), Elkader, IA (3.36"), and New Hampton, IA (3.2") rain.

1981: Marble Rock, IA (3") rain.

1971: An F3 tornado touched down in Fayette County, IA and F1 tornadoes occurred in both Prairie du Chien, WI and from Bagley to Bloomington in Grant County, WI. The Prairie du Chien tornado caused extensive damage to the city and 4 injuries.

1946: Goodrich, WI (3.55", wettest June day) and Medford, WI (3.38") rain.

1940: Mondovi, WI (3.9") rain.

1919: Medford, WI (3.6") rain.

June 25

2002: A rare tornado formed out of a squall line moving across northern Clark County, WI and dropped down in the center part of Abbotsford, WI causing considerable damage. A large feed mill was demolished, with debris damaging 15 cars at a nearby cardealership. An electric generator from the feed mill was thrown about two blocks, damaging the front of a building, before coming to rest on a minivan, demolishing it. Utilitypoles were sheared off and tossed, as well as a railroad crossing guard. Winds gustingto 65 mph also caused nearby damage. The tornado was rated an F1 with a width ofapprox. 70 yards. There were two known injuries but no fatalities.

1998: Mather, WI (3.05") rain.

1988: Owen, WI (94, warmest June temperature).

1968: Waucoma, IA (3.1") rain.

1966: An F0 tornado occurred in Olmsted County, WI.

1959: An F1 tornado touched down in the late afternoon in Mower County, MN and during the late evening in Howard County, IA. Rainfall totals for the day: Lanesboro, MN (4.40"), Genoa, WI (3.97"), Rochester, MN (3.80"), Prairie du Chien, WI (3.53"), New Hampton, IA (3.48").

1951: Spillville, IA (3.16") rain.

1950: An F2 tornado moved from 2 miles west of Unity, WI to 3 miles northeast of Abbotsford, WI (Clark County). Three barns were destroyed causing $25, 000 in damage. This was 1 of 3 significant tornadoes in Wisconsin that day, including an F4 that hit Oneida County. This tornado caused one death in Clark County.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory 

1949: Guttenberg, IA (3.05") rain.

1934: Just prior to midnight (11:30 PM), a tornado moved through Briggsville, WI. It caused no injuries or deaths. Friendship, WI (6", wettest day on record) and Neillsville, WI (3") rain.

1913: Rochester, MN (4.18") rain.

June 26

2002: An F0 tornado touched down during the afternoon on a farm just west of Fort Atkinson, IA. It completely destroyed an old barn. Other nearby outbuildings and a farm house sustained minor damage. There were no injuries reported.

1998: Black River Falls, WI (5.28") rain.

1989: Wind gusts from thunderstorms reached 85 mph across Grant County, WI and an F0 tornado in Guttenberg, IA uprooted trees and damaged several buildings. One young boy was injured by flying debris.

1986: An F2 tornado skipped along a 5 1/2 mile path, first touching down near Highway 15 about 5 miles west of Sparta, WI, and moved northeast. It lifted a large roof from a machine shed, heavily damaged 2 buildings, and destroyed a small windmill. Associated thunderstorm winds leveled trees and damaged roofs on neighboring farms, and also blew down a pole barn and tipped a recreation vehicle over. As much as 4 inches of rain caused $750, 000 worth of soil damage and marble size hail led to $236, 000 worth of crop damage.

1973: An F1 tornado touched down during the evening in Richland and Grant Counties in southwest Wisconsin.

1969: An F2 tornado tracked northeast from York, WI, across southeast Eau Claire County, and into Clark County (5 miles north northwest of Curtiss). Ten farms in the Withee, WI area were damaged. Two injuries occurred in Clark County. Another F2 tornado touched down 3 miles east of Fennimore, WI. A barn collapsed, injuring two people. Other farm buildings were destroyed as this tornado moved northeast. In addition to these F2 tornadoes, an F1 tornado touched down during the afternoon in Mitchell County, IA and 92 mph thunderstorm wind gusts were reported in Winona County, MN. An F1 tornado moved through Clark and Taylor counties, WI. It caused major damage at the Taylor County airport near Medford. Osage, IA (3.85") and Harmony, MN (3.03") rain.

1959: Harmony, MN (3.45") and Cresco, IA (3.1") rain.

1951: In IA: Decorah (4.72"), Nashua (4.07"), New Hampton (3.47"), and Dorchester(3") rain.

1934: Mather, WI (3.25") rain.

1934: Hatfield, WI (4") and Mauston, WI (3") rain.

1920: Mondovi, WI (4.75", wettest June day).

1906: Hatfield, WI (3.15") rain.

1874: A severe thunderstorm produced torrential rain and wind gusts up to 90 mph as it moved through the La Crosse, WI area shortly after 2 PM. The wind blew off several roofs and caused two chimneys to collapse in the downtown area. 

June 27

1998: A line of severe thunderstorms tracked across southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa and western Wisconsin. This line of storms produced two, long swaths of damage. One extended from just north of Rochester, MN to near Necedah WI. The other main damage track ran from Austin, MN to near Mauston, WI. A wind gust of 93 mph was recorded at the Austin airport as the line moved through, while estimates of 100 mph plus and greater winds were estimated in other locations. Total damage from the event was estimated to be in excess of 15 million dollars. In addition, a brief F0 tornado was reported by amateur radio storm spotters 2 miles west of Cresco, IA. It only damaged a small area of crops. Rainfall from the day: Blair, WI (3.74", wettest June day), Galesville, WI (3.56"), Elgin, MN (3.33"), Waucoma, IA (3.15"), and Lake City, MN (3.07").

1996: Flash flooding was observed on numerous small creeks and streams across both Winona and Wabasha Counties, MN during the early morning. Crops sustained some damage and many county roads had wash outs or were closed. Flash flooding was also observed in the Rochester, MN area with some basements flooded. Property damage was estimated at $55, 000 and crop damage was estimated at $40, 000.

1990: Mitchell County, IA reported 3" hail.

1986: The following Wisconsin locations had their wettest June day: Neillsville (4.83"), Hatfield (4.79"), Mather (4.7"), Necedah (3.38").

1985: Charles City, IA (3.57") and Blair, WI (3.05") rain.

1983: Waukon, IA (3.5") and Elkader, IA (3.24") rain.

1977: A weak F1 tornado touched down occurred during the evening in Houston County, MN.

1969: New Hampton, IA (3.12") rain.

1966: Two F1 tornadoes touched down during the evening in Fayette County, IA.

1952: Caledonia, MN (3.95") rain.

1934: Fayette, IA (108), Charles City, IA (105), Grand Meadow, MN (105), New Hampton, IA (105), and Rochester, MN (105, hottest June temperature) high temperatures.

1914: La Crosse, WI (2.20") rain.

1882: An F2 tornado caused one injury as it destroyed 2 homes south of Cashton, WI.

June 28

1998: New Hampton, IA (3.85"), Charles City, IA (3.32"), Decorah, IA (3.27"), Muscoda, WI (3.25"), Harmony, MN (3.09"), and Richland Center, WI (3.02") rain.

1995: An F0 tornado touched down in Onalaska, WI and ripped off a swimming poolcover, tar paper, and blew twigs into the air some 200 feet. The tornado was said to havemade a high pitch whistling noise and looked like a white pillar reaching about 300 feet intothe air.

1990: Rochester, MN (2.28") rain.

1983: Harmony, MN (3.31") rain.

1980: Osage, IA (3.86") and Owen, WI (3.16") rain.

1967: Richland Center, WI (4.71", wettest June day).

1960: An F2 tornado moved from 3 miles east southeast of Mondovi, WI to 6 miles east southeast to Strum, WI. This tornado destroyed a barn.

1947: Cresco, IA (3.6", wettest June day).

1943: Viroqua, WI (3.2") rain.

1942: An F2 tornado moved east-northeast across Wilmington and Winnebago Townships in southern Houston County, MN. Two barns were destroyed with damage estimates at $10, 000. Rainfall this day: La Crosse, WI (3.76"), Sparta, WI (3.66"), and Charles City, IA (3.31") rain.

1931: Winona, MN (106, hottest June temperature).

1923: Grand Meadow, MN (3.59") rain.

1865: A tornado moved east along the Amherst/Holt Township line in Fillmore County, MN destroying four homes and damaging several others. The damage scene included "splinters, shingles, rails, and every conceivable article used about the farm or dwelling, together with shreds of torn garments, bed clothing, beds torn open and feathers filling theair like snow flakes. Chickens and turkeys stripped of their feathers and lying dead in every direction. Another tornado moved east northeast from southwest of Viroqua, WI (devastating the southern part of that town) and then moved south of Rockton before dissipating to a six-mile wide downburst near the Juneau County, WI line. Approaching Viroqua, the funnel was accompanied by a "branch whirl holding on like a parasite." Multiple vortex "branches" and "eddies" were observed as the tornado passed through the town. "Death rode upon that sulphury siroc" as "the angry elements at the beck of an invisible power lay waste the fairest portion of the village." Ten people were killed on one street. A death total of 17 is usually given for this tornado, but according to the History of Vernon County at least 13 people were killed in Viroqua and as many as 12 others may have died later from injuries. The tornado was moving at an estimated 60 mph, as it approached a schoolhouse 2 miles east of Viroqua containing a teacher and 24 students. The building was lifted into the air "and dashed to ground", killing the teacher and eight students. Foot-square timbers were carried "long distances; tree tops were filled with feather beds, chairs, and clothing. All kinds of livestock were either dead or writhing on the points of broken branches; 20-ton rocks were rolled, lifted, and broken.
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June 29

1996: Baseball size hail was reported in Oronoco, MN.

1990: Platteville, WI (3.05") rain.

1983: An F1 tornado knocked down a cattle shed, killed some cattle, and downed some trees 2 miles northeast of Bassett, IA.

1981: Neillsville, WI (3.31") rain.

1969: An F1 tornado touched down 6 miles south of Lancaster, WI. It caused no injuries or deaths.

1966: An F2 tornado leveled barns northeast of Rib Lake, WI.

1947: Gays Mills, WI (3.5", wettest June day) and Lancaster, WI (3.1") rain.

1942: Decorah, IA (6.4"), Grand Meadow, MN (4.83"), Viroqua, WI (4.01", wettest June day), West Salem, WI (3.87"), and Lansing, IA (3.4") rain.

1931: Viroqua, WI (101) and Lancaster, WI (100) had their hottest June temperature.

1910: Neillsville, WI (104, hottest June temperature).

June 30

1993: New Hampton, IA (3") rain.

1983: An F0 tornado was reported by the public 12 miles west of Lancaster, WI. The tornado caused no damage.

1969: Platteville, WI (3") rain.

1967: A small F1 tornado touched down 10 miles northeast of Neillsville, WI. It caused no injuries or deaths.

1963: Jump River, WI (94, warmest June temperature).

1956: A weak F0 tornado touched down in Olmsted County, MN.

1949: Trempealeau, WI (99, warmest June temperature).

1938: Mauston, WI (4", wettest June day).

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Also Pernin, Peter. The great Peshtigo fire : an eyewitness account. Madison, Wis.: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1971. Reprinted from the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 54: 246-272 (Summer, 1971). Copyright © 1971 by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
From the State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Pam 78-4295.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER2002-1.html

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Weather trivia for June

Jun 1, 1980
A man from Falmouth ME was struck by lightning restoring his eyesight.
The man had been blind and partially deaf since a truck accident in 1971.

Jun 2, 1917
The low of 36 degrees established the record low for the month of June at
Dodge City.
In 1929...Originating 6 miles west of Hardtner Kansas, this spectacular
tornado moved very slowly east becoming the most photographed tornado to
date. Visible for 30 miles in all directions, the tornado eventually struck
the northwest edge of Hardtner but did only minor roof damage.

Jun 3, 1921
A cloudburst near Pikes Peak Colorado killed 120 people. Pueblo
Colorado was flooded by a twenty five foot crest of the Arkansas River,
killing 70 persons. Fourteen inches of rain was reported at Boggs Flat,
where a hard surface road through nearly level country was washed out
to a depth of seven feet.
IN 1959...Thunderstorms in northwestern Kansas produced up to 18 inches
of hail near Selden during the early evening. Crops were completely
destroyed, and total damage from the storm was about half a million dollars.
Hail fell for a record 85 minutes. The temperature dropped from near 80
degrees prior to the storm to 38 degrees at the height of the storm.

Jun 4, 1860
Iowa's "Comanche Tornado", with wind speeds estimated in excess of 300 mph,
was unquestionably one of the worst experienced by early settlers, with
nearly a million dollars damage.
IN 1989...Thunderstorms produced locally heavy rains of up to 5 inches in two
hours that caused flooding in some areas of northwest Ford county and
eastern Finney County. Kalvesta in eastern Finney county reported that
several fences were washed away and highway 156 was closed for a few
hours because of high water. Dodge City also received heavy rains that
washed several cars off roadways. One man nearly drowned as the flood
waters carried him nearly two blocks after he got out of his car and
tried to walk through running water. No major damage was reported in
Dodge City.

Jun 5, 1916
A tornado struck the town of Warren AR killing 83 persons. There were 125
deaths that day in a tornado outbreak across Missouri and Arkansas.
IN 1917...Residents near Topeka Kansas reported disk shaped hailstones six to
ten inches in diameter, and two to three inches thick. The hailstorm
was accompanied by a tornado.
IN 1991...In Ulysses KS, lightning struck a radio tower at the county law
enforcement center damaging part of the computer paging system and radio
communications.

Jun 6, 1989
Severe thunderstorms developed across southwest Kansas and spawned
several tornadoes and produced large hail. A large tornado touched
down northwest of Liberal and then moved south southeast, just passing
west of the town. The tornado did considerable damage to farmsteads and
irrigation systems in its path. Large hail, up to baseball size, also
did considerable damage to automobiles and broke out windows in homes.
Crop damage was extensive in the area from the hail.
IN 1994...In west central Kansas, hail five inches in diameter, knocked
holes in roofs and damaged windshields and farm machinery 7 miles south
of Tribune.

Jun 7, 1941
In Copeland KS, one home was unroofed by a tornado, and many other homes
had roof damage and/or porches torn off.
IN 1989...In Southwest Kansas, heavy rains of 3 to 5 inches fell across Grant
county, producing flash flooding across the area. Many roads were
washed out and extensive crop damage was reported. The town of Ulysses
received widespread flooding.

Jun 8, 1953
The worst tornado of record for the state of Michigan killed 116 persons.
Flint MI was hardest hit. The tornado, half a mile in width, destroyed 200
homes on Coldwater Road killing entire families.
IN 1966...A tornado ripped through the heart of the capitol city of Topeka
Kansas killing sixteen persons and causing 100 million dollars damage. The
tornado, which struck during the evening, cut a swath of near total
destruction eight miles long and four blocks wide. It was the most
destructive tornado of record up until that time.

Jun 9, 1953
A tornado hit the town of Worcester MA killing ninety persons. The tornado
mangled steel towers built to withstand winds of 375 mph. The tornado, up
to a mile in width at times, tracked 46 miles through Worcester County.
Debris from the tornado fell in the Boston area, and adjacent Atlantic Ocean.
IN 1972...A cloudburst along the eastern slopes of the Black Hills of South
Dakota produced as much as 14 inches of rain resulting in the Rapid
City flash flood disaster. The rains, which fell in about four
hours time, caused the Canyon Lake Dam to collapse. A wall of water
swept through the city drowning 237 persons, and causing more than
100 million dollars property damage.

Jun 10, 1752
It is believed that this was the day Benjamin Franklin narrowly missed
electrocution while flying a kite during a thunderstorm to determine if
lightning is related to electricity.
IN 1958...A woman was sucked through the window of her home in El Dorado
Kansas by a powerful tornado, and was carried sixty feet away. Beside
her was found a broken phonograph record entitled "Stormy Weather."
IN 1994...During the early morning hours, baseball size hail broke house
windows in south Liberal.
IN 2002...Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a hanger at the Dodge City
airport. A wind gust to 96 miles per hour was recorded by a backup
wind system.

Jun 11, 1915
A tornado moved slowly northeast from southwest of Mullinville Kansas,
allowing people to reach shelter from this extremely large tornado.
One entire farm was completely swept away on the edge of Mullinville,
and many more homes were destroyed. As it moved northeast, 8 separate
funnels were noted at one time under the huge rotating cloud. Damage
totaled $75,000. It was reported that three mules were carried two miles.
IN 1996...Hail five inches in diameter fell 13 miles southeast of Mullinville KS.
There was a report of 10 head of cattle killed by the hail.

Jun 12, 1997
Very strong thunderstorm winds moved a six story coal stacker 240 feet
two miles south of Holcomb Kansas. Power lines and power poles were
blown down 2 miles northwest of Garden City.
IN, 2002...Large hail pelted parts of Medicine Lodge Kansas. The hail size ranged
from nickel to softball. More than 20 windshields were broken and
vehicles throughout town sustained severe damage.

Jun 13, 1907
The temperature at Tamarack California dipped to 2 above zero, the lowest
reading of record for June for the U.S. The high that day was 30 degrees.
Tamarack received 42 inches of snow between the 10th and the 13th. On the
13th the snow depth was 130 inches.

Jun 14, 1903
The "Heppner Disaster" occurred in Oregon. A cloudburst in the hills sent a flood down
Willow Creek, and a twenty foot wall of water swept away a third of the town in minutes,
killing 236 residents and causing 100 million dollars damage.
IN 1990...A cluster of severe thunderstorms developed around Meade Kansas, where
an unconfirmed tornado was reported by the public, and dropped large,
soft hail from Fowler to Dodge City. Damage was minimal due to soft and
infrequent hail drops.

Jun 15, 1992
The second largest two day tornado outbreak in U.S. history commenced
as a developing cumulus cloud broke through the cap in north central
Kansas and exploded into a huge supercell thunderstorm. This supercell
produced 39 tornadoes in north central Kansas, including 12 in Mitchell
county and 9 in Osborne county. A farmer living south of Cawker City
reported going to the basement in his farm home 5 different times and
each time he came out of the basement, his farm had additional damage.
He also reported that at one time, he counted 3 tornadoes on the ground
and 4 funnels in the air.
IN 1997...Severe weather broke out over western Kansas. Eight miles
southwest of Pratt, a railroad boxcar was blown off the tracks, and a
large tree was blown down in Pratt.

Jun 16, 1997
Five miles west of Kiowa Kansas, a thunderstorm produced a two to three
mile swath of hail. Some of the hail piled 4 feet deep at the corner
of one fenced in area.

Jun 17, 1882
A tornado traveled more than 200 miles across the state of Iowa killing
130 persons. The tornado touched down about ninety miles west of Grinnell,
and struck the town and college around sunset, killing 60 persons, and
causing more than a half a million dollars damage.
IN 1987...Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S.
Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Lyons, and baseball
size hail at Garden City.

Jun 18, 1993
In west central Kansas, heavy rain caused roads in the Syracuse area
to flood. As much as 1 foot of water covered some roads for a short
period of time. In Greeley county, golfball size hail, driven by
thunderstorm winds, damaged wheat and broke windows along a 4 mile path
from 5 miles south of Astor to 9 miles south of Astor. Trees were also
blown down.

Jun 19, 1835
A tornado tore through the center of New Brunswick NJ killing five persons and scattering
debris as far as Manhattan Island. The tornado provided the first opportunity for scientists to
study firsthand the track of such a storm.
IN 1938...A cloudburst near Custer Creek MT (near Miles City) caused a train wreck killing 48 persons.
An estimated four to seven inches of rain deluged the head of the creek that evening, and water
flowing through the creek weakened the bridge. As a result, a locomotive and seven passenger
cars plunged into the swollen creek. One car, a tourist sleeper, was completely submerged.
IN 1965...The Arkansas River crested at 15.68 feet in Dodge City. Heavy rains in
Eastern Colorado combined with three broken dams started the torrent of
water which flowed through Colorado and Kansas. The river rose 7 feet in
15 minutes between 9 am and 915 am. The flood waters reached from the
railroad tracks on the north side to just barely covering Beeson street
on the south. The deepest part of south Dodge was about 7 feet under
water. The deep water created other problems, when gas regulators were
covered, pressure built up in the gas lines and Dodge City was rocked by
explosions. Total urban losses in Dodge City and Wilroads Gardens were
estimated at nearly 3.8 million dollars, including damages to 615
residences and 155 businesses. Twenty four Kansas counties were declared
flood disasters.
IN 1972...Hurricane Agnes moved onshore near Cape San Blas FL with gusts to 80 mph, and exited
Maine on the 26th. There were 117 deaths, mainly due to flooding from North Carolina to New
York state, and total damage was estimated at more than three billion dollars. Up to 19 inches
of rain deluged western Schuylkill County PA. The rains of Hurricane Agnes resulted in one of
the greatest natural disasters in U.S. history. Agnes caused more damage than all other tropical
cyclones in the previous six years combined (which included Celia and Camille).
IN 1990...A super cell thunderstorm moved into western Kansas producing three tornadoes and large hail.
The largest and most destructive tornado started 5 miles northwest of Ulysses and was on the
ground for about 20 miles. One residence in Ulysses was destroyed and several were damaged.
Two grain and implement companies were extensively damaged. The Red Rock school, 12
miles east of Ulysses was heavily damaged. The roof of the century-old school was taken off
and blown onto a house nearby. A large swath of wheat was destroyed from 12 miles southeast
of Syracuse to 12 miles east of Ulysses. The tornado lifted 12 miles east of Ulysses.
IN 1992...Two batches of severe thunderstorms, occurring within 6 hours of each other, dumped
hailstones up to 4.5 inches in diameter across Sedgwick and surrounding counties in south-
central Kansas. Over 10,000 homes were damaged. The hail left wheat fields in a near total
loss. Estimated property damage totaled $500 million with crop damage at $100 million. The
thunderstorm episode ranks as one of the worst ever to hit Kansas.

Jun 20, 1928
A farmer near Greensburg Kansas looked up into the heart of a tornado.
He described its walls as rotating clouds lit with constant flashes of
lightning and a strong gassy odor with a screaming, hissing sound.
IN 1954...A severe hailstorm struck Wichita KS and vicinity causing nine million dollars damage.

Jun 21, 1996
Very strong thunderstorm winds blew a roof off a bowling alley in Ulysses Kansas. Numerous
trees were down, roofs damaged and around 100 power poles were blown down in the vicinity
of Ulysses. Very strong thunderstorm winds blew down 100 power poles in the vicinity of Ness City KS.
Numerous farms were damaged from 3 miles south to 11 miles southwest to 2 miles west of
Ness City. Thunderstorm winds were sustained for several minutes at 80 mph at Jetmore KS.
A semi-truck was overturned and power lines were down. The wind peaked at 96 mph.

Jun 22, 1907
Five tornadoes touched down in the Medicine Lodge Kansas area. Two of
them hit the town, destroying nine homes and damaging 25 others.
IN 1947...Twelve inches of rain fell in 42 minutes at Holt MO establishing a world rainfall record. The
record was tied on January 24-25, 1956, at the Kilauea Sugar Plantation in Hawaii, as their state
record was established with 38 inches of rain in 24 hours.
IN 1991...Several fields of wheat and other crops north of Kendall KS in Hamilton and Kearney counties
suffered major damage in a 3 to 4 mile wide swath of hail. Some farmers sustained total losses
on their ready to harvest wheat. Two tractor-semitrailers wound up in ditches just east of U.S.
Highway 50 and Kendall highway intersection. One truck was laid on its side and the other was
still upright.

Jun 23, 1944
Four tornadoes killed 153 persons and caused five million dollars damage in Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Maryland. The tornadoes formed during the evening and moved
southeastward along parallel paths flattening everything in their way. The town of Shinnston
WV was leveled, and was left with the majority of the casualties. Until that time it was
believed that damaging tornadoes did not travel across mountainous terrain.
IN 1967...A tornado moved southeast from 12 miles north of Lakin Kansas,
devastating the north half of Garden City, passing 8 miles north of
Charleston, and ending 7 miles north of Ingalls. Over 40 homes were
damaged, and about 150 lost the roof and at least some homes were
completely leveled. Losses in Garden City totaled $4,000,000. Rural
losses added about $1,000,000.

Jun 24, 1992
In west central Kansas, thunderstorms with heavy rain produced 6 to 8
inches of water over Highway 25 six miles north of Leoti. Highway 50
was flooded between Syracuse and Kendall.
IN 1997...Severe weather developed over western Kansas. Winds gusting at up to 80 mph snapped power
poles, shutting off electricity to Hays, Munjor and Victoria. Two miles east of Moscow, three
railroad boxcars were blown off the tracks.

Jun 25, 1749
A general fast was called on account of drought in Massachusetts. It
was the year of the famous dry spring in which fields and villages burned.

Jun 26, 1989
Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 90 mph at Liberal, and hail four inches in
diameter at Quinter.
IN 1993...A tornado damaged or destroyed many roofs to homes and mobile homes
on the east side of Garden City. Two mobile homes were knocked off
their foundations. A semi trailer truck was knocked over. Six hangar
doors at the Garden City Airport were blown off. One hangar door
was blown into a Aerostar airplane parked inside the hanger. A modular
classroom at an elementary school was knocked off its foundation.

Jun 27, 1951
Shortly after midnight a tornado struck the northern part of Wakeeney
killing 4 people and completely destroying 45 homes. Around 60 more
homes were heavily damaged. The loss was estimated at nearly two million
dollars.
IN 1957...Hurricane Audrey smashed ashore at Cameron LA drowning 390
persons in the storm tide, and causing 150 million dollars damage in Texas,
Louisiana and Mississippi. A storm surge greater than twelve feet inundated
the Louisiana coast as much as 25 miles inland. It was the deadliest June
hurricane of record for the U.S.
IN 1987...Thunderstorms moving out of Nebraska produced severe weather in
north central Kansas after midnight. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph
damaged more than fifty camping trailers at the state park campground at
Lake Waconda injuring 16 persons.
IN 1992...A line of severe thunderstorms moved across southwestern Kansas.
Large hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding occurred across the area.
A tornado was reported 8 miles west southwest of Dodge City. Rainfall
amounts of five to six inches were reported in some counties. Softball
size hail blew out windows and screens of a building 3 miles south of
Cimarron.
IN 2012...The all-time high temperature was set at Dodge City with a
reading of 111 degrees.

Jun 28, 1923
A massive tornado hit Sandusky Ohio, then swept across Lake Erie to
strike the town of Lorain. The tornado killed 86 persons and caused
twelve million dollars damage. The tornado outbreak that day was the
worst of record for the state of Ohio up til that time.
IN 1980...The temperature at Wichita Falls TX soared to 117 degrees,
their hottest reading of record. Daily highs were 110 degrees or hotter
from June 24th to July 3rd.
IN 2003...A tremendous storm rolled in from the east into Liberal. The
combination of 80 to 100 mph wind and hail bigger than golfballs produced
at least 8 million dollars in damage. Flash flooding occurred following
the devasting hail and wind storm. Nearly all streets in and around
Liberal were flooded. Several cars were stranded. A field overflowed onto
highway 83 north of town.

Jun 29, 1998
The high of 110 degrees established the all time high for Dodge City.

Jun 30, 1972
The entire state of Pennsylvania was declared a disaster area as a result
of the catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes, which claimed 48
lives, and caused 2.1 billion dollars damage.
IN 1988...Thunderstorms in eastern Kansas drenched Worden with 12.21 inches of
rain, and a wall of water two to four feet deep swept through Lone Star
Kansas flooding every home in the town. Up to ten inches of rain was
reported southeast of Callaway Nebraska.

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Weather History
For Wednesday, June 1, 2016
1812 - Apple trees at New Haven CT did not blossom until the first of June, the latest such occurrence during the period beginning in 1794. Snow whitened the ground in Cleveland OH and Rochester NY. (David Ludlum)
1903 - A strong tornado just 50 to 75 yards in width killed many persons around the Gainesville GA Cotton Mill. The tornado strengthened and widened near the end of its four mile path, killing 40 persons at New Holland GA. A total of 104 persons were killed in the tornado. (The Weather Channel)
1980 - A man from Falmouth ME was struck by lightning restoring his eyesight. The man had been blind and partially deaf since a truck accident in 1971. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Severe thunderstorms in the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Lower Ohio Valley produced wind gusts to 81 mph at Albert Lea Airport in southern Minnesota, and baseball size hail around Otterbein IN, Sarona WI, and Danville IL. Two inches of hail totally destroyed 5000 acres of corn and soybean north of Danville. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms drenched north central Texas with torrential rains, with more than 14 inches reported in Commanche County. Afternoon thunderstorm in New Jersey and Pennsylvania produced wind gusts to 70 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms developing during the afternoon over the Southern Plains Region produced severe weather through the evening and the night, spawning nine tornadoes. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Alpine TX, and baseball size hail at Balmorhea, TX, Fluvanna, TX, and in Borden County, TX. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Thursday, June 2, 2016
1889 - A great flood on the Potomac River in Washington D.C. took out a span of Long Bridge, and flooded streets near the river. The flood stage reached was not again equalled until 1936. (David Ludlum)
1917 - The temperature at Tribune, KS dipped to 30 degrees to establish a state record for the month of June. (The Weather Channel)
1949 - A tornado northeast of Alfalfa OK circled an area one mile in radius. (The Weather Channel)
1985 - Lightning struck a house, broke a bedroom window, and jumped to a metal frame bed. A man was killed but his wife was unharmed by the lightning. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes in West Texas and six tornadoes in Illinois. Thunderstorms in Illinois produced wind gusts to 70 mph at McComb and Mattoon. Thunderstorms in southern Texas produced 5.5 inches of rain south of Seguin, and up to eight inches of rain in Washington County. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Severe thunderstorms in Texas and Oklahoma produced hail more than three inches in diameter near Stilwater OK, and softball size hail in Jones County of north central Texas. Baseball size hail and 70 mph winds caused an estimated 100 million dollars damage around Abilene TX. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather across much of the south central U.S. through most of the day and night. Thunderstorms spawned a dozen tornadoes, and there were 123 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 78 mph at Russell KS, and baseball size hail was reported at Denver CO, Cuthbert TX, and in Reeves County TX. Afternoon thunderstorms in southern New England produced wind gusts to 120 mph at Fitchburg, MA, causing five million dollars damage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Friday, June 3, 2016
1921 - A cloudburst near Pikes Peak CO killed 120 people. Pueblo CO was flooded by a twenty-five foot crest of the Arkansas River, killing 70 persons. Fourteen inches of rain was reported at Boggs Flat, where a hard surface road through nearly level country was washed out to a depth of seven feet. (The Weather Channel)
1959 - Thunderstorms in northwestern Kansas produced up to eighteen inches of hail near Salden during the early evening. Crops were completely destroyed, and total damage from the storm was about half a million dollars. Hail fell for a record eighty-five minutes. The temperature dropped from near 80 degrees prior to the storm to 38 degrees at the height of the storm. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Six days of flooding in South Texas culminated with five to six inch rains from Bexar County to Bandera County, and five to nine inches rains in Gonzalez and Wilson Counties. Total crop damage was estimated at 500 million dollars. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Early morning thunderstorms in southern Texas produced wind gusts to 86 mph at Port Isabel, and wind gusts to 83 mph at South Padre Island. Unseasonably hot weather prevailed from the Southern Plateau Region to the Northern High Plains. Fourteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms developing over the Southern Plains Region during the afternoon hours produced severe weather into the night. Thunderstorms spawned eleven tornadoes, and there were 169 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Newcastle, OK, and Wilson, OK. Softball size hail was reported at Monahans, Childress and Groesbeck TX. Monahans TX reported six million dollars damage. Five inches of rain deluged Geronimo OK. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Saturday, June 4, 2016
1825 - A hurricane struck Long Island NY leveling trees and causing damage to ships. The early season hurricane, which originated around Cuba, caused major damage along the Atlantic coast from Charleston SC to New York City. Many were lost at sea. (David Ludlum)
1860 - Iowa's Commanche Tornado , with wind speeds estimated in excess of 300 mph, was unquestionably one of the worst experienced by early settlers, with nearly a million dollars damage. (The Weather Channel)
1982 - A four day storm began over New England which produced up to 14 inches of rain in southern Connecticut breaching twenty-three dams and breaking two others. Damage was estimated at more than 276 million dollars. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Early morning thunderstorms in south Texas produced 6.5 inches of rain at Hockheim, and five inches at Hallettsville, in just a few hours. Afternoon thunderstorms in Virginia deluged northern Halifax County with 5.5 inches of rain in two hours. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Dusty WA, and wind gusts to 88 mph at Swanquarter NC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A dozen cities in the eastern U.S. reported record low temp- eratures for the date, including Atlantic City NJ with a reading of 40 degrees. Fifteen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Glasgow MT and Havre MT with readings of 102 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Southern Plains Region and the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Southern Atlantic Coast Region during the day and into the night. Just four tornadoes were reported, but there were 87 reports of large hail and damaging winds. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Sunday, June 5, 2016
1859 - Frost was reported from Iowa to New England. The temperature dipped to 25 degrees in New York State, and up to two inches of snow blanketed Ohio. The cold and snow damaged the wheat crop. (David Ludlum)
1908 - Helena MT was deluged with 3.67 inches of rain to establish their all-time 24 hour rainfall record. (4th-5th) (The Weather Channel)
1916 - A tornado struck the town of Warren AR killing 83 persons. There were 125 deaths that day in a tornado outbreak across Missouri and Arkansas. (David Ludlum)
1917 - Residents near Topeka KS reported disk-shaped hailstones six to ten inches in diameter, and two to three inches thick. The hailstorm was accompanied by a tornado. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - International Falls, MN, dipped to a record low reading of 34 degrees during the morning. Williston, ND, and Glasgow, MT, reported record warm afternoon highs of 94 degrees. Major flooding was reported along the Guadelupe River in South Texas, with the water level at Cuero reaching 18 feet above flood stage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Twenty cities in the south central and eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville NC with a reading of 40 degrees. Fifteen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 108 degrees at Glasgow MT was a record for June. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Southern Atlantic Coast during the day and into the night. Four tornadoes were reported, and there were 87 reports of large hail and damaging winds. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Monday, June 6, 2016
1816 - The temperature reached 92 degrees at Salem MA during an early heat wave, but then plunged 49 degrees in 24 hours to commence the famous year without a summer . (David Ludlum)
1894 - One of the greatest floods in U.S. history occurred as the Williamette River overflowed to inundate half of the business district of Portland OR. (David Ludlum)
1975 - A tornado, reportedly spinning backwards (spinning clockwise), was sighted near Alva, OK. (The Weather Channel)
1977 - Severe thunderstorms with large hail and winds to 100 mph caused one million dollars damage around Norfolk, VA. A forty-two foot fishing boat capsized near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel drowning 13 of the 27 persons on board. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms in southern California produced one inch hail at Mount Pinos, and marble size hail at Palmdale. Thunderstorms in southeastern Arizona produced heavy rain leaving some washes under four feet of water. Six cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the upper 90s. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Seventeen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Williston ND with a reading of 104 degrees. Thunderstorms in Florida produced wind gusts to 65 mph which damaged two mobile homes northwest of Melbourne injuring six people. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms developing during the late morning hours produced severe weather through the afternoon and night. Thunderstorms spawned 13 tornadoes, and there were 154 reports of large hail and damaging winds. A strong (F-3) tornado injured six persons at Lorenzo, TX, and thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph killed one person at Glasscock City, TX. Softball size hail was reported at Lipscomb and Glen Cove TX. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, June 7, 2016
1816 - A famous June snow occurred in the northeastern U.S. Danville VT reported drifts of snow and sleet twenty inches deep. The Highlands were white all day, and flurries were observed as far south as Boston MA. (David Ludlum)
1972 - Richmond VA experienced its worst flood of record as rains from Hurricane Agnes pushed the water level at the city locks to a height of 36.5 feet, easily topping the previous record of thirty feet set in 1771. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms in the Laramie Mountains of eastern Wyoming produced golf ball size hail, and up to five inches of rain in just one hour. Half a dozen cities in the Upper Mississippi Valley reported record high temperatures for the date, including La Crosse, WI, with a reading of 97 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)(Storm Data)
1988 - Snow whitened some of the mountains of northern California and northwestern Nevada. Twenty-six cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Rapid City SD with a reading of 104 degrees, and Miles City, MT, with a high of 106 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from southern Oklahoma and eastern Texas to northwestern Florida through the day and night. Thunderstorms spawned 22 tornadoes, including a dozen in Louisiana, and there were 119 reports of large hail and damaging winds. A strong (F-2) tornado at Gross Tete LA killed two persons, injured thirty others, and another strong (F-2) tornado injured 60 persons at Lobdell LA. Softball size hail was reported at Hillsboro TX. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, June 8, 2016
1953 - The worst tornado of record for the state of Michigan killed 116 persons. Flint MI was hardest hit. The tornado, half a mile in width, destroyed 200 homes on Coldwater Road killing entire families. (The Weather Channel)
1966 - A tornado ripped right through the heart of the capitol city of Topeka KS killing sixteen persons and causing 100 million dollars damage. The tornado, which struck during the evening, cut a swath of near total destruction eight miles long and four blocks wide. It was the most destructive tornado of record up until that time. (David Ludlum)
1974 - Severe thunderstorms spawned at least twenty-three tornadoes in Oklahoma during the afternoon and evening hours. One of the tornadoes struck the town Drumright killing sixteen persons and injuring 150 others. A tornado struck the National Weather Service office in Oklahoma City, and two tornadoes hit the city of Tulsa. Thunderstorms in Tulsa also produced as much as ten inches of rain. Total damage from the storms was around thirty million dollars. It was the worst natural disaster of record for Tulsa. (Storm Data)
1987 - Thunderstorms in the northeastern U.S. produced large hail and damaging winds in Vermont injuring two persons. Thunderstorms in Ohio produced wind gusts to 75 mph near Akron, and deluged Pittsfield with two inches of rain in thirty minutes. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Overnight thunderstorms in Iowa produced 5.20 inches of rain at Coon Rapids. Thunderstorms in the Florida Keys drenched Tavernier with 7.16 inches of rain in 24 hours. Eleven cities in the central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Central Gulf Coast Region during the day and evening. Severe thunderstorms spawned 17 tornadoes, including one which injured ten persons and caused a million dollars damage at Orange Beach, AL. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 90 mph killed three persons and injured four others at Mobile AL. Thunderstorms also deluged Walnut Hill and Avalon Beach, FL, with eight inches of rain. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Thursday, June 9, 2016
1953 - A tornado hit the town of Worcester MA killing ninety persons. The northeastern states usually remain free of destructive tornadoes, however in this case a low pressure system, responsible for producing severe thunderstorms in Michigan and Ohio the previous day, brought severe weather to New Hampshire and central Massachusetts. The tornado, up to a mile in width at times, tracked 46 miles through Worcester County. It mangled steel towers built to withstand winds of 375 mph. Debris from the tornado fell in the Boston area, and adjacent Atlantic Ocea. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1972 - A cloudburst along the eastern slopes of the Black Hills of South Dakota produced as much as 14 inches of rain resulting in the Rapid City flash flood disaster. The rains, which fell in about four hours time, caused the Canyon Lake Dam to collapse. A wall of water swept through the city drowning 237 persons, and causing more than 100 million dollars property damage. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Lightning struck Tire Mountain near Denver CO, destroying two million tires out of a huge pile of six million tires. Thunderstorms spawned three tornadoes around Denver, and a man was killed at Conifer CO when strong thunderstorm winds lifted up a porch and dropped it on him. A thunderstorm near Compton MD produced two inch hail, and high winds which destroyed twenty barns and ten houses injuring five persons. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from North Carolina to the Central Gulf Coast Region. Hail in North Carolina caused more than five million dollars damage to property, and more than sixty million dollars damage to crops. Hail three and a half inches in diameter was reported at New Bern NC. Thunderstorms in the Central High Plains produced eighteen inches of hail at Fountain CO. The temperature at Del Rio TX soared to an all-time record high of 112 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Severe weather abated for a date, however, showers and thunderstorms continued to drench the eastern U.S. with torrential rains. Milton, FL, was deluged with 15.47 inches in 24 hours. Record heat and prolonged drought in south central Texas left salt deposits on power lines and insulators near the coast, and when nighttime dew caused arcing, the city of Brownsville was plunged into darkness. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Friday, June 10, 2016
1752 - It is believed that this was the day Benjamin Franklin narrowly missed electrocution while flying a kite during a thunderstorm to determine if lightning is related to electricity. (David Ludlum)
1957 - A dust devil at North Yarmouth, ME, lifted a 600 to 1000 pound chicken shelter into the air and carried it 25 feet. It landed upright with only slight damage. It is unknown whether any eggs were scrambled. (The Weather Channel)
1958 - A woman was sucked through the window of her home in El Dorado, KS, by a powerful tornado, and was carried sixty feet away. Beside her was found a broken phonograph record entitled Stormy Weather . (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms produced 2 to 4 inch rains in southern Texas. Two and a half inches of rain at Juno TX caused flooding and closed a nearby highway. Flooding on the northwest side of San Antonio claimed one life as a boy was swept into a culvert. Thunderstorms in the north central U.S. produced an inch and a half of small hail at Monida Pass MT. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Three dozen cities, mostly in the eastern U.S., reported record low temperatures for the date, including Elkins, WV, with a reading of 33 degrees. Unseasonably hot weather continued in the Northern High Plains Region. The record high of 105 degeees at Williston, ND, was their seventh in eight days. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather through the day and night across much of the southern half of the Great Plains Region. Thunderstorms spawned 14 tornadoes, and there were 142 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Hail three inches in diameter caused three millions dollars damage at Carlsbad, NM. Hail four inches in diameter was reported at Estelline TX and Stinnett, TX. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Odessa TX. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Saturday, June 11, 2016
1842 - A late season snowstorm struck New England. Snow fell during the morning and early afternoon, accumulating to a depth of ten to twelve inches at Irasburg VT. Berlin NH was blanketed with eleven inches of snow during the day. Snow whitened the higher peaks of the Appalachians as far south as Maryland. (David Ludlum)
1877 - The temperature at Los Angeles, CA, reached 112 degrees during a heatwave. It would have been the all-time record for Los Angeles but official records did not begin until twenty days later. (The Weather Channel)
1972 - Heavy showers brought 1.64 inches of rain to Phoenix AZ, a record for the month of June. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - South Texas endured another day of torrential rains. Up to twelve inches of rain drenched Harris County, and nearly ten inches soaked Luce Bayou, mainly during the afternoon hours. Thunderstorm rains left seven feet of water over Highway 189 in northern Val Verde County. Flooding caused nine million dollars damage in Real County. A thunderstorm at Perryton, TX, produced golf ball size hail and 70 mph winds, and spawned a tornado which struck a mobile killing one person and injuring the other four occupants. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thirty cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including El Dorado, AR, with a reading of 48 degrees. Canaan Valley WV and Thomas WV dipped to 30 degrees. Flagstaff AZ was the cold spot in the nation with a low of 30 degrees. Coolidge, just 180 miles away, was the hot spot in the nation with an afternoon high of 105 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central and southeastern U.S. during the day and night. Thunderstorms spawned eleven tornadoes, including one which tore the roof off a restaurant at Bee Branch, AR, injuring six persons. The tornado tossed one car into the restaurant, and another car over it. Temperatures soared into the 90s across much of Florida. Lakeland reported a record high of 99 degrees for the second day in a row. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Sunday, June 12, 2016
1881 - Severe thunderstorms spawned more than half a dozen tornadoes in the Lower Missouri Valley. Five of the tornadoes touched down near Saint Joseph MO. In south central Kansas a tornado nearly wiped out the town of Floral. Hail and high winds struck Iowa and southern Minnesota. In Minnesota, Blue Earth City reported five inches of rain in one hour. (David Ludlum)
1947 - A heavy wet snow blanketed much of southern and central Wyoming, and gave many places their heaviest and latest snow of record. Totals included 18.4 inches at Lander, 8.7 inches at Cheyenne, and 4.5 inches at Casper. (11th-12th) (The Weather Channel)
1969 - Record late season snows covered parts of Montana. Five inches was reported at Great Falls and east of Broadus. Billings, MT, tied their June record with lows of 32 degrees on the 12th and the 13th. (The Weather Channel)
1983 - The state of Utah was beseiged by floods and mudslides. Streets in downtown Salt Lake City were sandbagged and turned into rivers of relief. The town of Thistle was completely inundated as a mudslide made a natural dam. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced softball size hail around Fremont and Ames, and 3.5 inches of rain in less than one hour. Four and a half inches in less than an hour caused flooding around Ithica, NE. A tornado destroyed a mobile home near Broken Bow, NE, injuring both occupants. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Fifteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville with a reading of 40 degrees. Drought conditions continued to intensify across the eastern half of the nation. Rainfall at Nashville, TN, was running 12.5 inches below normal. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Tennessee Valley to the Central Appalachians in the afternoon and evening, and produced severe weather in Oklahoma and Texas during the evening and night. Thunderstorms spawned ten tornadoes, and there were 164 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 100 mph at Amarillo, TX, and wind gusts to 110 mph at Denton TX. Hail three inches in diameter was reported at Tucumcari NM. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2005 - A tornado in Hammond, Wisconsin damaged 22 homes and produced $3.6 million in damage (Associated Press). 
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Weather History
For Monday, June 13, 2016
1889 - Forest fires in northern Wisconsin and northeast Minnesota were in the process of destroying millions of dollars of board feet of timber. (David Ludlum)
1907 - The temperature at Tamarack, CA, dipped to 2 degrees above zero, the lowest reading of record for June for the U.S. The high that day was 30 degrees. Tamarack received 42 inches of snow between the 10th and the 13th. On the 13th the snow depth was 130 inches. (The Weather Channel)
1984 - Severe thunderstorms struck Denver deluging the city with five inches of rain, and leaving up to six feet of water in some places. Softball size hail smashed windshields and ripped through metal cars. Snow plows had to be called out. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Fifteen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including International Falls, MN, with a reading of 92 degrees. Mason City IA and Waterloo IA reported record highs of 100 degrees. Thunderstorms in the northeastern U.S. produced golf ball size hail around Hamilton Square NJ, along with high winds which tore the roof off a hospital causing a million dollars damage. Averill Park NY was deluged with 1.64 inches of rain in fifteen minutes. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Afternoon thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Southern and Central Plains Region. Forrest NM was deluged with 5.5 inches of rain in ninety minutes. Temperatures soared into the 90s across much of the eastern half of the nation, including New England. Northern Illinois reported a record twenty straight days of dry weather. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Southern Plains Region to the Carolinas during the day and night, and continued to drench parts of Texas and Oklahoma with heavy rain. Oklahoma City reported 13.41 inches of rain for the first thirteen days of the month, and Fort Worth TX reported 29.56 inches for the year, a total more than 13 inches above normal. Severe drought continued to rage across South Texas. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, June 14, 2016
1903 - The Heppner Disaster occurred in Oregon. A cloudburst in the hills sent a flood down Willow Creek, and a twenty foot wall of water swept away a third of the town in minutes, killing 236 residents and causing 100 million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1961 - The temperature in Downtown San Francisco, CA, soared to 106 degrees to establish an all-time record for that location. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thirty-two cities in the central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 97 degrees at Flint, MI, tied their record for June, and the high of 101 at Milwaukee WI marked their first 100 degree reading in 32 years. Thunderstorms brought much needed rains to South Texas, drenching McAllen with 3.2 inches in one hour. A thunderstorm soaked the town of Uncertain with 2.3 inches of rain in one hour. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thirty cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather from the Central Gulf States to the Middle Atlantic Coast Region during the day and into the night. There were 62 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds caused 28 million dollars damage in Montgomery County MD. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, June 15, 2016
1662 - A fast was held at Salem MA with prayers for rain, and the Lord gave a speedy answer. (David Ludlum)
1879 - McKinney ND received 7.7 inches of rain in 24 hours, a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1896 - The temperature at Fort Mojave, CA, soared to 127 degrees, the hottest reading of record for June for the U.S. The low that day was 97 degrees. Morning lows of 100 degrees were reported on the 12th, 14th and 16th of the month. (The Weather Channel)
1953 - Dust devils are usually rather benign weather phenomena, however, two boys were injured by one near Prescott AZ. One of the boys suffered a black eye, and the other boy had two vertabrae fractured by wind-blown debris. (The Weather Channel)
1957 - East Saint Louis was deluged with 16.54 inches of rain in 24 hours, a record for the state of Illinois. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the northwestern U.S. A tornado damaged five homes and destroyed a barn near Salmon ID. It lifted a metal shed 100 feet into the air, and deposited it 100 yards away. Hail an inch and a half in diameter caused ten million dollars damage to automobiles at Nampa ID. (The National Weather Channel) (Storm Data)
1988 - Severe thunderstorms in the Central High Plains Region spawned five tornadoes around Denver, CO, in just one hour. A strong (F-3) tornado in southern Denver injured seven persons and caused ten million dollars damage. Twenty-six cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 97 degrees at Portland ME was a record for June. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Southern and Middle Atlantic Coast States. The thunderstorms spawned eight tornadoes, including strong (F-3) tornadoes which injured three persons at Mountville PA and four persons at Columbia, PA. There were 111 reports of large hail and damaging winds, including wind gusts to 80 mph at Norfolk, VA, and Hogback Mountain, SC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Thursday, June 16, 2016
1806 - A total eclipse of the sun was viewed from southern California to Massachusetts. (David Ludlum)
1917 - The temperature soared to 124 degrees at Mecca climaxing the most destructive heat wave of record in California history. (David Ludlum)
1944 - A tornado in Sioux City, IA, traveled an odd course. It spun in one place for about twenty minutes, made a U-turn, traveled southeast for about three miles, then traveled south, east, north, and finally east again. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Temperatures soared above 100 degrees in the Upper Midwest, reaching 104 degrees at Lincoln, NE. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 96 mph at Valley City, ND, and baseball size hail near Red Oak, IA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - After a brief respite, hot weather returned to the Northern High Plains Region. Late night thunderstorms in Montana produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Polson and north of Lake Seeley. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Daytime thunderstorms produced severe weather from northern Florida to the Middle Atlantic Coast. The thunderstorms spawned eight tornadoes, and there were 138 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 87 mph caused twenty million dollars damage at Columbia SC. Strong thunderstorm winds killed one person at McLeansville NC. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Friday, June 17, 2016
1859 - Hot Santa Ana winds in southern California roasted fruit on one side at Santa Barbara. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1882 - A tornado traveled more than 200 miles across the state of Iowa killing 130 persons. The tornado touched down about ninety miles west of Grinnell, and struck the town and college around sunset, killing sixty persons, and causing more than half a million dollars damage. Traveling at nearly 60 mph, the tornado hit Mount Pleasant about 11 PM causing another half a million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1965 - Holly, CO, was deluged with 11.08 inches of rain to establish a state 24 hour rainfall record. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S. Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Lyons, and baseball size hail at Garden City. The Edwards Aquifer, which supplies water to San Antonio, TX, reached a record level of 699.2 feet following a record 18.43 inches of rain in thirty days. Torrential rains between the mid May and mid June sent 8.8 million acre feet of water down the rivers of southern Texas, the largest volume in 100 years of records. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in Georgia and the Carolinas. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Eden, NC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Unseasonably cool air, responsible for 37 record lows in the central U.S. on the 15th and 16th, including a low of 33 degrees at Valentine NE on the 15th, overspread the eastern U.S. ending a three day seige of severe weather. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Saturday, June 18, 2016
1875 - A severe coastal storm (or possible hurricane) struck the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia. Eastport ME reported wind gusts to 57 mph. (David Ludlum)
1958 - Hailstones up to four inches in diameter killed livestock as a storm passed from Joliet to Belfry in Carbon County MT. (The Weather Channel)
1970 - Wind and rain, and hail up to seven inches deep, caused more than five million dollars damage at Oberlin KS. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - It was a hot day in the Upper Great Lakes Region. Nine cities in Michigan and Wisconsin reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 90 degrees at Marquette, MI, marked their third straight day of record heat. Severe thunderstorm in the Northern and Central High Plains Region spawned half a dozen tornadoes in Wyoming and Colorado. Wheatridge, CO, was deluged with 2.5 inches of rain in one hour. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Severe thunderstorms in eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota produced hail three inches in diameter and spawned four tornadoes in Steele County. Thunderstorms also produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Clearbrook MN. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in the southwestern U.S. In Arizona, afternoon highs of 103 degrees at Winslow, 113 degrees at Tucson, and 115 degrees at Phoenix were records for the date. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Sunday, June 19, 2016
1835 - A tornado tore through the center of New Brunswick NJ killing five persons and scattering debris as far as Manhattan Island. The tornado provided the first opportunity for scientists to study firsthand the track of such a storm. (David Ludlum)
1938 - A cloudburst near Custer Creek, MT, (near Miles City) caused a train wreck killing forty-eight persons. An estimated four to seven inches of rain deluged the head of the creek that evening, and water flowing through the creek weakened the bridge. As a result, a locomotive and seven passenger cars plunged into the swollen creek. One car, a tourist sleeper, was completely submerged. (David Ludlum)
1972 - Hurricane Agnes moved onshore near Cape San Blas FL with wind gusts to 80 mph, and exited Maine on the 26th. There were 117 deaths, mainly due to flooding from North Carolina to New York State, and total damage was estimated at more than three billion dollars. Up to 19 inches of rain deluged western Schuylkill County PA. The rains of Hurricane Agnes resulted in one of the greatest natural disasters in U.S. history. Agnes caused more damage than all other tropical cyclones in the previous six years combined (which included Celia and Camille). (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - It was a warm June day, with plenty of thunderstorms east of the Rockies. Lightning knocked out power at Throckmorton, TX, and ignited an oil tank battery. A woman in Knox City TX was struck by lightning while in her car, and a man was struck by lightning near his home in Manatee County FL. Strong thunderstorm winds overturned several outhouses near Bixby OK, but no injuries were reported. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Temperatures soared above 100 degrees in the central U.S. for Father's Day. Fifteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Severe thunderstorms in Minnesota and Wisconsin produced softball size hail near River Falls WI, and wind gusts to 80 mph at Menomonie WI. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Fourteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date as searing heat spread from the southwestern deserts into the High Plains Region. Record highs included 98 degrees at Billings, MT, 107 degrees at Valentine, NE, and 112 degrees at Tucson, AZ. (The National Weather Summary)
2006 - Up to 11 inches of rain fell in the Houston, Texas area, causing widespread flash flooding. The Houston Fire Department rescued more than 500 people from flood waters, but no serious injuries or fatalities were reported. 
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Weather History
For Monday, June 20, 2016
1682 - A major tornado ripped through southwestern Connecticut, passing through Stratford, Milford, and New Haven, and then into Long Island Sound. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1921 - Circle, MT, received 11.5 inches of rain in 24 hours, a record for the state. The town of Circle received a total of 16.79 inches of rain that month to establish a rainfall record for any town in Montana for any month of the year. (The Weather Channel)
1928 - A farmer near Greensburg, KS, looked up into the heart of a tornado. He described its walls as rotating clouds lit with constant flashes of lightning and a strong gassy odor with a screaming, hissing sound . (The Weather Channel)
1964 - A squall line producing large hail swept through central Illinois. A second squall line moved through during the early morning hours of the 21st, and a third one moved through shortly after dawn. The series of hailstorms caused nine million dollars damage. Hailstones as large as grapefruit caused heavy damage to trees, utility lines, crops and buildings. The thunderstorms also produced as much as five inches of rain in an eight hour period. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Thunderstorms prevailed east of the Rockies, producing severe weather in the Central High Plains Region. Thunderstorms spawned four tornadoes in Colorado, and produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Goodland, KS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thirty-eight cities in the central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Afternoon highs of 97 degrees at Flint, MI, and 104 degrees at Chicago, IL, equalled records for the month of June. Thunderstorms in North Dakota produced baseball size hail near Kief, and wind gusts to 100 mph near McGregor. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - An early morning thunderstorm produced wind gusts to 61 mph at Pierre, SD, and the hot thunderstorm winds raised the temperature from 86 degrees at midnight to 96 degrees by 1 AM, and 104 degrees by 2 AM. Butte, MT, and Yellowstone Park, WY, reported snow that afternoon. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, June 21, 2016
1893 - On the first day of summer the temperature at Dodge City, KS, soared to 106 degrees during the midst of a blistering heat wave. The heat wave initiated a severe three year drought in the Central Plains Region. Ironically, at about the same time, heavy rains in the Mississippi Valley were causing the river to swell to its highest level of record at New Orleans, LA. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1919 - Seven heavy coach cars of a moving train were picked up and thrown from the tracks by tornado winds. A baggage car was set down thirty feet away from the rest of the train. (The Weather Channel)
1954 - A severe hailstorm struck Wichita KS and vicinity causing nine million dollars damage. (The Weather Channel)
1972 - Phoenix, AZ, was drenched with 1.64 inches of rain late on the 21st and early on the 22nd to easily surpass their previous June rainfall record of 0.95 inches. The total for the month was 1.70 inches. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A tornado destroyed 57 mobile homes at the Chateam Estates trailer park northwest of Detroit, MI, killing one person and injuring six others. Total damage was estimated at 1.7 million dollars. Thunderstorms over Lower Michigan also drenched the Saginaw Valley with up to 4.5 inches of rain in less than six hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - The first full day of summer was a torrid one, with afternoon highs of 100 degrees or above reported from the Northern and Central Plains to the Ohio Valley. Sixty-nine cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 110 degrees at Sioux Falls, SD, was an all-time record for that location. Highs of 103 degrees at Des Moines, IA, 102 degrees at Fort Wayne, IN, 109 degrees at Huron, SD, 108 degrees at Sioux City, IA, and 101 degrees at South Bend IN were records for June. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - The first day of summer heralded snow in the northern and central Rockies. In Colorado, 15 inches of snow was reported at the summit of Mount Evans and, in Wyoming, 18 inches was reported at Dickensen Park, west of Lander. Heavy rain continued in the eastern U.S. Huntsville, AL, reported a record 11.65 inches for the month, compared to the 0.17 inch rainfall total in June 1988. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2005 - A slow-moving thunderstorm dumped up to a foot of hail in southeastern portions of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Snowplows had to be used to clear a route through a major thoroughfare in the city. Heavy rainfall from the storm left up to 4 feet of water in city streets, trapping dozens of motorists (Associated Press). 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, June 22, 2016
1947 - Twelve inches of rain fell in forty-two minutes at Holt, MO, establishing a world rainfall record. That record was tied on January 24-25, 1956, at the Kilauea Sugar Plantation in Hawaii, as their state record was established with 38 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The Weather Channel)
1972 - Hurricane Agnes deluged Pennsylvania and New York State with torrential rains resulting in the most costly flood in U.S. history. In the Middle Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania, 24 hour rainfall amounts were generally 8 to 12 inches, with up to 19 inches in extreme southwestern Schuylkill County. At Wilkes-Barre, PA, the dike was breached destroying much of the town. Flooding resulted in 117 deaths and 3.1 billion dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1981 - A young woman from Lubbock, TX, was struck by lightning. The bolt of lightning struck just above her right shoulder near her neck, and passed right to left through her body, tearing her warm-ups, causing her tennis shoes to explode, and lifting her two feet into the air. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms in southern Texas produced wind gusts to 116 mph near Quemado. Thunderstorms in New York State produced 5.01 inches of rain in 24 hours at Buffalo, an all-time record for that location, and produced an inch of rain at Bath, PA. The temperature at Fairbanks AK soared to 92 degrees, establishing a record for the date. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Sixty-five cities in twenty-four states reported record high temperatures for the date. Tucson AZ reported an all-time record high of 114 degrees, surpassing the previous record of 112 degrees established a day earlier. Highs of 98 degrees at Pittsburgh, PA, and 100 degrees at Baltimore, MD, tied records for the month of June. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Record cold temperatures were reported in the High Plains Region. Rapid City, SD, reported a record low of 39 degrees, in sharp contrast to their record high of 102 degrees two days earlier, on the 20th. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Thursday, June 23, 2016
1902 - The temperature at Volcano Springs, CA, soared to 129 degrees to set a June record for the U.S. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders)
1944 - Four tornadoes killed 153 persons and caused five million dollars damage in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland. The tornadoes formed during the evening and moved southeast along parallel paths flattening everything in their way. The town of Shinnston WV was leveled, and was left with the majority of the casualities. Until that time it was believed that damaging tornadoes did not travel across mountainous terrain. (David Ludlum)
1957 - A few miles west of Fort Stockton TX, softball size hail injured 21 persons unable to find shelter, mostly farm laborers. Some livestock were killed. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A massive hailstorm hit eastern Colorado causing an estimated 60 to 70 million dollars damage. At La Junta, CO, hail as large as softballs caused 37 million dollars damage. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thirty-four cities reported record high temperatures for the date. The reading of 90 degrees at Bluefield, WV, equalled their record for the month of June. The record high of 104 degrees at Billings, MT, was their thirteenth of the month. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Six cities in the High Plains Region reported record low temperatures for the date, including Sheridan, WY, with a reading of 38 degrees. Showers and thunderstorms in the eastern U.S. deluged New Castle County, DE, with 2.5 inches of rain in one hour. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Friday, June 24, 2016
1816 - The cold weather of early June finally gave way to several days of 90 degree heat in Massachusetts, including a reading of 99 degrees at Salem. (David Ludlum)
1924 - Six men at a rock quarry south of Winston-Salem, NC, sought shelter from a thunderstorm. The structure chosen contained a quantity of dynamite. Lightning struck a near-by tree causing the dynamite to explode. The men were killed instantly. (The Weather Channel)
1951 - Twelve inches of hail broke windows and roofs, and dented automobiles, causing more than fourteen million dollars damage. The storm plowed 200 miles from Kingmand County KS into Missouri, with the Wichita area hardest hit. It was the most disastrous hailstorm of record for the state of Kansas. (David Ludlum)
1952 - Thunderstorms produced a swath of hail 60 miles long and 3.5 miles wide through parts of Hand, Beadle, Kingsbury, Miner and Jerauld counties in South Dakota. Poultry and livestock were killed, and many persons were injured. Hail ten inches in circumference was reported at Huron SD. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms spawned six tornadoes in eastern Colorado. Baseball size hail was reported near Yoder, CO, and thunderstorm winds gusting to 92 mph derailed a train near Pratt, KS. The town of Gould, OK, was soaked with nearly an inch and a half of rain in just ten minutes. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Forty-three cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Valentine NE reported an all-time record high of 110 degrees, and highs of 102 degrees at Casper, WY, 103 degrees at Reno, NV, and 106 degrees at Winnemucca, NV, were records for the month of June. Highs of 98 degrees at Logan, UT, and 109 degrees at Rapid City, SD, equalled June records. Lightning killed twenty-one cows near Conway, SC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms developing along a warm front produced severe weather from Colorado and New Mexico to Kansas and Nebraska. Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes, and produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Wood River, NE, and hail three inches in diameter at Wheeler, KS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Saturday, June 25, 2016
1749 - A general fast was called on account of drought in Massachusetts. It was the year of the famous dry spring in which fields and villages burned. (David Ludlum)
1925 - The mercury hit 101 degrees at Portland, OR, their earliest 100 degree reading of record. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders)
1953 - The temperature at Anchorage soared to 86 degrees, their hottest reading of record. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Afternoon highs of 97 degrees at Miami, FL, 107 degrees at Medford, OR, and 111 degrees at Redding CA were new records for the date. It was the third of six straight days of record heat for Miami. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Austin, and gusts to 75 mph at Tulsa OK. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Fifty-two cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Highs of 100 degrees at Erie, PA, and 104 degrees at Cleveland OH established all- time records for those two locations. Highs of 101 degrees at Flint, MI, 105 degrees at Chicago, IL, and 106 degrees at Fort Wayne, IN, equalled all-time records. Thunderstorms in Idaho produced wind gusts to 100 mph west of Bliss and north of Crouch, injuring 29 persons. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Tropical depression Allison, the remnants of what was earlier Cosme (a hurricane over the Pacific Ocean which dissipated as it crossed northern Mexico), began to spread heavy rain into southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Sunday, June 26, 2016
1888 - Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave. Daily average temperatures were above 80 degrees for fourteen straight days. The heat wave was a sharp contrast to the severe blizzard in March of that year, which buried the city under nearly two feet of snow. (David Ludlum)
1977 - The Human Lightning Conductor, park ranger Roy C. Sullivan, was struck by lightning for the seventh time. He was first hit in 1942, then again in 1970, 1972, 1973 and 1976. (The Weather Channel)
1983 - Record heat prevailed from Texas to Michigan. Alpena MI hit 98 degrees. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1985 - A spectacular early morning waterspout developed at 5:20 AM (MST) from a stationary thunderstorm over the south end of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. It was visible 20 miles away, and lasted four minutes. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Hot weather prevailed in the Pacific Northwest. Afternoon highs of 88 degrees at Seattle, WA, 103 degrees at Medford, OR, and 111 degrees at Redding, CA, were records for the date. Cloudy and cool weather prevailed in the northeastern U.S. The high at Boston, MA, was just 60 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thirteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. In Montana, the record high of 102 degrees at Billings, MT, was their fifteenth of the month, and the high of 108 degrees at Glasgow MT equalled their record for June. Thunderstorms in the Atlantic Coast Region produced wind gusts to 102 mph at Tall Timbers MD. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Central Plains to the Middle Mississippi Valley. There were 129 reports of severe weather during the day and night. Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 90 mph at Liberal, and hail four inches in diameter at Quinter. Thunderstorms in Wisconsin spawned a tornado at Lake Delton injuring four persons. Lightning struck and killed a woman at Junction City, KS, who had gotten out of her car to photograph the lightning. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)crossed northern Mexico), began to spread heavy rain into southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Monday, June 27, 2016
1901 - There was a rain of fish from the sky at Tiller's Ferry. Hundreds of fish were swimming between cotton rows after a heavy shower. (David Ludlum)
1915 - The temperature at Fort Yukon AK soared to 100 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1957 - Hurricane Audrey smashed ashore at Cameron, LA, drowning 390 persons in the storm tide, and causing 150 million dollars damage in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Audrey left only a brick courthouse and a cement-block icehouse standing at Cameron, and when the waters settled in the town of Crede, only four buildings remained. The powerful winds of Audrey tossed a fishing boat weighing 78 tons onto an off-shore drilling platform. Winds along the coast gusted to 105 mph, and oil rigs off the Louisiana coast reported wind gusts to 180 mph. A storm surge greater than twelve feet inundated the Louisiana coast as much as 25 miles inland. It was the deadliest June hurricane of record for the U.S. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms moving out of Nebraska produced severe weather in north central Kansas after midnight. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph damaged more than fifty camping trailers at the state park campground at Lake Waconda injuring sixteen persons. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Beloit and Sylvan Grove. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - The afternoon high of 107 degrees at Bismarck, ND, was a record for the month of June, and Pensacola, FL, equalled their June record with a reading of 101 degrees. Temperatures in the Great Lakes Region and the Ohio Valley dipped into the 40s. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Ohio Valley to western New England. Thunderstorm spawned six tornadoes, and there were 98 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Tropical Storm Allison spawned six tornadoes in Louisiana, injuring two persons at Hackberry. Fort Polk LA was drenched with 10.09 inches of rain in 36 hours, and 12.87 inches was reported at the Gorum Fire Tower in northern Louisiana. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, June 28, 2016
1788 - The Battle of Monmouth in central New Jersey was fought in sweltering heat. The temperature was 96 degrees in the shade, and there were more casualties from the heat than from bullets. (David Ludlum)
1892 - The temperature at Orogrande UT soared to 116 degrees to establish a record for the state. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders)
1923 - A massive tornado hit Sandusky, OH, then swept across Lake Erie to strike the town of Lorain. The tornado killed 86 persons and caused twelve million dollars damage. The tornado outbreak that day was the worst of record for the state of Ohio up til that time. (David Ludlum)
1975 - Lee Trevino and two other golfers are struck by lightning at the Western Open golf tournament in Oak Brook, IL. (The Weather Channel)
1980 - The temperature at Wichita Falls, TX, soared to 117 degrees, their hottest reading of record. Daily highs were 110 degrees or above between the 24th of June and the 3rd of July. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the north central U.S. Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced wind gusts to 70 mph and baseball size hail at Arapahoe, and wind gusts to 80 mph along with baseball size hail at Wolback and Belgrade. Six cities in the Ohio Valley reported record low temperatures for the date, including Cincinnati, OH, with a reading of 50 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Showers and thunderstorms brought much needed rains to parts of the central U.S. Madison, WI, received 1.67 inches of rain, a record for the date, and their first measurable rain since the Mother's Day tornado outbreak on the 8th of May. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Evening thunderstorms deluged Winnfield LA with eleven inches of rain in four hours and fifteen minutes, and Baton Rouge LA reported 11 inches of rain in two days. Totals in west central Louisiana ranged up to 17 inches. Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Northern High Plains. Two inch hail broke windows in nearly every building at Comstock, NE. Thunderstorms in North Dakta produced two inch hail at Killdeer, and golf ball size hail at Zap. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, June 29, 2016
1931 - The temperature at Monticello FL hit 109 degrees to establish an all-time record for the state. (The Weather Channel)
1954 - Hurricane Alice dumped as much as 27 inches of rain on the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The Rio Grande River at Laredo reached a level 12.6 feet above its previous highest mark, and the roadway of the U.S. 90 bridge was thirty feet below the high water. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes Region, with reports of large hail and damaging winds most numerous in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. Thunderstorms spawned four tornadoes in Michigan. A tornado near Clare MI was accompanied by softball size hail. In Colorado, an untimely winter-like storm blanketed Mount Evans with six inches of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Alpena, MI, reported a record low of 39 degrees while Jackson, MS, equalled their record for the month of June with an afternoon high of 105 degrees. Thunderstorms in the central U.S. soaked Springfield MO with 3.62 inches of rain, a record for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Southern and Central High Plains Region. Thunderstorms in Colorado produced softball size hail at Kit Carson, while pea to marble size hail caused ten million dollars damage to crops in Philips County, CO. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Thursday, June 30, 2016
1886 - The second destructive hurricane in nine days hit the Apalachicola-Tallahassee area. (David Ludlum)
1942 - The temperature at Portland, OR, hit 102 degrees, an all-time record for that location. (The Weather Channel)
1972 - The entire state of Pennsylvania was declared a disaster area as a result of the catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes, which claimed 48 lives, and caused 2.1 billion dollars damage. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Hot weather prevailed in the Pacific Northwest, with readings above 100 degrees reported as far north as southern British Columbia. Yakima, WA, reported a record high of 100 degrees, while temperatures near the Washington coast hovered near 60 degrees all day. Thunderstorms prevailed from southwest Texas to New England. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph at Gettysburg, PA, killed one person. High winds and large hail caused more than five million dollars damage to property and crops in Lancaster County, PA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms in eastern Kansas drenched Worden with 12.21 inches of rain, and a wall of water two to four feet deep swept through Lone Star, KS, flooding every home in the town. Up to ten inches of rain was reported southeast of Callaway, NE. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Winfield, KS. Seventeen cities in the north central and northeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Duluth, MN, with a reading of 36 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Winnfield, LA, reported 22.52 inches of rain in three days, and more than thirty inches for the month, a record for June. Shreveport LA received a record 17.11 inches in June, with a total for the first six months of the year of 45.55 inches. Thunderstorms also helped produce record rainfall totals for the month of June of 13.12 inches at Birmingham AL, 14.66 inches at Oklahoma City, OK, 17.41 inches at Tallahassee FL, 9.97 inches at Lynchburg, VA, and more than 10.25 inches at Pittsburgh, PA. Pittsburgh had also experienced a record wet month of May. (The National Weather Summary) 
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See also http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_history/