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1 September 1869 → Cleveland Abbe, in Cincinnati, inaugurated a weather reporting and warning service for the city. Professor Abbe wrote to his father, "I have started that which the country will not let willingly die".   http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/nws_history_articulate/history_presentation/player/playershell.swf
1 September 1979 → A home in Centerville, TN was hit by lightning and totally destroyed. It marked the third time that the house had been hit by lightning since being built in 1970.
1 September 2002 → Typhoon Rusa was the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in over 40 years. 132 people were reported dead or missing. Winds gusted up to 127 mph and up to 36 inches of rain fell in eastern and southern South Korea. 
1 September 1862: The Battle of Ox Hill (or Chantilly) is also known as the only major Civil War battle to have been fought during a storm. "A severe thunderstorm erupted, resulting in limited visibility and an increased dependence on the bayonet, as the rain soaked the ammunition of the infantry and made it useless." From Taylor, Paul. He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning: The Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly), September 1, 1862. 
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Color lithograph "General Kearney's gallant charge", published by John Smith, 804 Market St, Philadelphia. From the Library of Congress.
1 September 1894: The Great Hinckley Fire, which burned an area of at least 200,000 acres or perhaps more than 250,000 acres including the town of Hinckley, Minnesota occurred on this day. The official death count was 418 though the actual number of fatalities was likely higher. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.  
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/minnesota-town-burns

Click HERE for more information from the town of Hinckley. 
http://www.hinckley.govoffice2.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BFD8DC19D-5036-4403-8C87-061FFE2E781A%7D 

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1 September 1974: Lt. Judy Neuffer became the first female to fly a Hurricane Hunter aircraft through the eye of a hurricane.
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The newspaper clipping above is courtesy of The Day, published on September 4th, 1974. Click HERE for a link to the newspaper.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19740904&id=XOwgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SHIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2563,255814&hl=en
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The satellite image above is Hurricane Carmen on September 1st, 1974. This image is courtesy of the National Hurricane Center.

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2 September 1935 → One of the most intense hurricanes to ever hit the U.S. struck the Florida Keys, packing 200 mph winds and killing 400 people. The hurricane produced a 15-foot tide and storm surge waves 30 feet high. The barometric pressure at Matecumbe Bay, FL hit a United States record low of 26.35 inches.  http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/labor_day/labor_article.html
2 September 2002 → In Ladysmith, WI businesses were closed because of Labor Day. An F3 tornado touched down and damaged the area. Fortunately, no one was killed. The Wisconsin towns of Gilman and Wausau were also struck.  
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/events/gilman.php -- now http://www.weather.gov/arx/sep0202
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grb/events/090202.php  -- now http://www.weather.gov/grb/090202_tornadoes
2 September 1775: The 1775 Newfoundland hurricane, also known as the Independence Hurricane, was a hurricane that hit the Colony of Newfoundland in September 1775. It is believed to have killed at least 4,000 people, making it one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes of all time. The death toll in Virginia and North Carolina was 163 lives.
2 September 1935: The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was the strongest and most intense hurricane to make landfall in the United States and the Atlantic Basin in recorded history. A central pressure of 892 mb (26.35 inHg) suggests winds around 188.7 mph The death toll from this hurricane is between 408 to 600 individuals.
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Surface weather analysis of the 1935 Labor Day hurricane on 4 September 1936.
Rescue train swept off the tracks by the 1935 Labor Day hurricane
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"The hurricane washed this eleven car special train off the track soon after reaching the strickened area. The train was trying to rescue 683 World War I veterans in a rehabilitation camp, of which around 250 died as a result of the hurricane. The veterans, a remnant of the Bonus Army that marched on Washington, were employed for highway construction in the federal work relief project." - State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, https://floridamemory.com/items/show/149572
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3 September 1925 → The USS Shenandoah, a dirigible on its 57th flight, crashed near Caldwell, OH when it ran into a line of strong thunderstorms. The Commander of the flight knew of the possibility of bad weather, but was ordered to fly anyway. He and thirteen others were killed.
3 September 1970 → A hailstone fell in Coffeyville, KS that was 5.7 inches in diameter and weighed 1.7 pounds. For 30 years it was the largest hailstone recorded in the US.
3 September 1930: A Category 4 hurricane devastates Dominican Republic on this day. This hurricane killed more than 8,000 individuals, which is it the fifth deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.  
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hurricane-batters-dominican-republic

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Cropped Version of September 3, 1930 Weather Map, Courtesy of NOAA.
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Destruction after the Dominican Republic hurricane of 1930. Image Courtesy of NOAA.
3 September 1970: During the early evening hours, in the midst of a severe hailstorm at Coffeyville, Kansas, a stone 17.5 inches in circumference and nearly two pounds in weight was recovered. Average stone size from the storm was five inches in diameter, with another stone reportedly eight inches in diameter. This hailstone is currently the third largest hailstone in the U.S. Click HERE for more information from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.  https://www.ucar.edu/communications/factsheets/Hail.html

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NCAR scientist Nancy Knight holds a hailstone that fell in Coffeyville, Kansas, in 1970. The largest hailstone ever documented, it weighs 0.75 kilograms (1.67 pounds), and spans 14.4 centimeters (5.67 inches).
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4 September 1970 → Tropical Storm Norma caused Arizona rivers to rise between 5 and 10 feet per hour. The disaster killed 23 people.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/twc/tropical/norma_1970.htm
4 September 1986 → An unusually strong dust devil moved across the Flagstaff, AZ airport, blowing open the doors to the National Weather Service office, scattering papers, and bringing down a ceiling-mounted light fixture. Also, a Cessna 182 parked at the airport was flipped and destroyed. There was some minor hangar damage as well.
4 September 2004 → Former Category 4 Hurricane Frances made landfall in Florida as a Category 2. Over a foot of rain soaked parts of the state.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/?n=frances
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tbw/?n=tampabayweatherhurricanefrances
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/?n=frances

4 September 1941: A violet tornado ripped through Northeast and North Minneapolis shortly after noon on this day. The hardest hit location was the Soo Line Railroad's Shoreham Yards where four people died and at least 50 were injured. The death toll at Soo Line could have been higher, but the tornado struck five minutes after the lunch bell went off, meaning 100 men left the shops. Click HERE for photos from Historic Minneapolis.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/12279886@N06/2982598405/in/photostream/

4 September 2007: Hurricane Felix came ashore in the pre-dawn hours as a Category 5 storm on the Miskito Coast in Nicaragua. At the time of its landfall, the maximum sustained surface winds were approximately 160 mph. Felix killed at least 130 people along the Miskito Coast, with damage in Nicaragua totaling $46.7 million dollars.
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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of Hurricane Felix at 10:10 a.m. local time (16:10 UTC) on September 4, 2007. At that time, Felix had slammed into the mountains of Nicaragua inland, and lost enough power to be rated a Category Three status hurricane with sustained wind speeds of 120 mph.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
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5 September 1922 → A lightning storm broke over Regina, Saskatchewan. The rain forced two brothers to take refuge under a shock of grain before it was struck by lightning, killing them both. The same bolt of lightning stunned another hired hand working in the field, but he recovered.
5 September 1925 → Every weather reporting station in Alabama hit 100 degrees or more. The highest temperature occurred at Centerville: 112 establishing the all-time state heat record.
5 September 1666: The Great Fire of London started on September 2nd and continued through September 5th. The fire spread rapidly due to strong westerly winds. This fire consumed 13,200 homes, 87 parish churches, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/londoners-desperately-attempt-to-halt-fire
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 'The Great Fire of London 1666'. The City is depicted on September 4th, the third day of the fire. The original is an oil painting on board by Rita Greer, history painter, 2008.
5 September 1950: Hurricane Easy was an erratic and unpredictable hurricane that lingered over the Tampa Bay area for days, dropping torrential rains and causing damage especially in Cedar Key, Florida where the hurricane eventually made landfall. This hurricane dumped 38.7 inches of rain in 24 hours in Yankeetown, a record for the U.S. at the time, and caused $3.3 million in damage.
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Storm total rainfall map of Hurricane Easy during September 1950. Image Courtesy from the Weather Prediction Center.
1666: The Great Fire of London started on September 2nd and continued through September 5th. The fire spread rapidly due to strong westerly winds. This fire consumed 13,200 homes, 87 parish churches, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.
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 'The Great Fire of London 1666'. The City is depicted on September 4th, the third day of the fire. The original is an oil painting on board by Rita Greer, history painter, 2008.
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6 September 1840 → The first official weather observation in Canada was taken at Kings College, at the University of Toronto by members of the British Royal Artillery.
6 September 1972 → The first tropical cyclone landfall in California since 1939 was Tropical Depression Hyacinth on this date, just north of San Diego.
6 September 1996 → Category Three Hurricane Fran made a direct hit on North Carolina with 115mph winds. Six people died and up to 16 inches of rain fell. The storm caused $2.4 billion damage in North Carolina just two months after the state had been hit by Category Three Hurricane Bertha.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/fran/fran.html
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/fran1996.html
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6 September 1667: The "dreadful hurricane of 1667" is considered one of the most severe hurricanes to ever strike Virginia. On the first, this same storm was reported in the Lesser Antilles. The hurricane devastated St. Christopher as no other storm had done before. The "great storm" went on to strike the northern Outer Banks of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia. Approximately 10,000 houses were blown over. Area crops (including corn and tobacco) were beat into the ground. Click HERE for more information from the Weather Prediction Center. http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/roth/va17hur.htm
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7 September 1955 → An 8-day run of 100-degree heat in Los Angeles, CA finally came to an end after causing 946 fatalities.
7 September 1970 → At Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, FL lightning struck the football team. 38 players and 4 coaches were knocked off their feet. 22 were injured and 2 were killed.
7 September 1991 → A wild hailstorm moved across Calgary, Canada. The estimated $342 million in damages set a record insurance loss for any single event in Canadian history at the time. Companies flew in adjusters to handle nearly 80,000 property claims. The 30-minute storm split trees, flooded basements, and broke windows. Raging sewers even blew off manhole covers.
7 September 1998: Two Derechos occurred on this day with one affecting most of Pennsylvania and New York City, the other impacting central New York.  http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/September/Sep%207%2C%201998%20Labor%20Day%20Derechos.jpg
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8 September 1885 → Several F2 and F3 tornadoes struck Michigan and Ohio. Washington Court House, OH was hardest hit, where 300 buildings were destroyed. The town square was ruined and 200 homes were lost. Shingles were blown 14 miles downwind.
8 September 1900 → The deadliest weather disaster in U.S. history occurred when a hurricane struck Galveston, TX. A tide 15 feet high washed over the island demolishing or carrying away buildings and drowning more than 6000 people. The hurricane destroyed more than 3600 houses, and total damage was more than $30 million. Winds to 120 mph and a 20-foot storm surge accompanied the hurricane. Following the storm, the surf was three hundred feet inland from the former water line. The hurricane claimed another 1200 lives outside of the Galveston area.
http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/magazine/galv_hurricane/welcome.html
8 September 1965 → Hurricane Betsy crossed the Florida Keys during the early morning hours. Winds were estimated at 125 mph with gusts to 165 mph at Big Pine Key.  http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/betsy1965.html   http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/?n=betsy
8 September 2004 → President George Bush visited the National Hurricane Center in Miami, FL making it the first time that a Commander in Chief had visited the facility.
8 September 2011 → The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee brought copious amounts of rainfall to the eastern United States. Eastern Pennsylvania was especially hard hit, where several locations received over a foot of rain (15.20" at Elizabethtown over a span of five days) and the Susquehanna River set a record stage of 32.8 feet at Bloomsburg (nearly 14 feet over flood stage). 
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ctp/features/2011/09_08/index.php
http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_Sep_08
8 September 1900: An estimated Category 4 storm made landfill in Galveston, Texas on this day. This hurricane killed between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals, making it the deadliest US Atlantic hurricane on record. The highest point in the city of Galveston was less than nine feet above sea level. The hurricane brought a storm surge of over 15 feet, which overwhelmed the entire island. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/deadly-hurricane-batters-texas
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September 8 surface weather analysis of the deadliest hurricane to ever hit the United States and one of the most storied hurricanes in history, the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. Image Courtesy from NOAA.
8 September 1998: A severe thunderstorm rapidly developed over the south end of the Las Vegas Valley in Nevada and moved north focusing damaging winds and heavy rain mainly across the eastern half of the metro area. Henderson Executive Airport recorded wind gusts of 80 mph. Air traffic control personnel temporarily evacuated the airport tower. Approximately 15 homes and trailers in Moapa were severely damaged by thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 to 90 mph.
1900: An estimated Category 4 storm made landfill in Galveston, Texas on this day. This hurricane killed between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals, making it the deadliest US Atlantic hurricane on record. The highest point in the city of Galveston was less than nine feet above sea level. The hurricane brought a storm surge of over 15 feet, which overwhelmed the entire island. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.
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9 September 1776 → The Hurricane of Independence battered coastal areas from North Carolina to Nova Scotia from September 2 to September 9. It is believed that 4,170 people in the U.S. and Canada died in the storm.
9 September 1821 → New England's most prolific tornado outbreak. The half-mile wide Great New Hampshire Tornado killed 6 and devastated areas around Lake Sunapee and Mt. Kearsarge. Huge hailstones "filled with grass and gravel" fell on the Hudson Valley.
9 September 1921 → Thrall, TX set the U.S. record for rainfall in 18 hours, with 36.40". The heavy rain was from remnants of the season's second hurricane, which moved northward from the Bay of Campeche.
9 September 1960 → The storm surge from Hurricane Donna submerged the Overseas Highway. The hurricane broke the pipeline that supplied fresh water to the Florida Keys. 
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/donna1960.html
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/?n=donna
9 September 1964 → Hurricane Dora became one of the few hurricanes to strike the extreme northeast part of Florida.
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/dora1964.html
9 September 2002 → A powerful squall line spawned four tornadoes that flattened buildings and took four lives in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
9 September 1775: The Newfoundland hurricane, also known as the Independence Hurricane, killed more than 4000 mariners, mostly off the coast of Newfoundland. It has been speculated that this storm was a turning point in the American Revolution because most lives lost were British sailors.
9 September 1821: A tornadic outbreak affected the New England states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont on this day. Five tornadoes reportedly touched down from this event. One tornado in New Hampshire had a path width of a half mile and tracked an estimated 23 miles. This tornado killed at least 6 individuals, which could be the deadliest tornado in New Hampshire history.
9 September 2013: Historic rainfall occurred in northern Colorado from September 9 to September 16 and resulted in severe flash flooding along the northern Front Range of Colorado and subsequent river flooding downstream along the South Platte River and its tributaries. The heaviest rain fell along the Front Range northwest of Denver on September 11-12.
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Image Courtesy from the Boulder County Transportation Department.
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10 September 1919 → One of the most intense hurricanes to hit the U.S. swept through Key West, FL. Over 700 people died along the storm's track from the Lesser Antilles to Corpus Christi, TX.
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/index.html?qType=ids&mos=default&press=default%2Cdefault&scale=147914382&years=default&sel=selected&cats=default&ll=0.000000%2C11.423798&storms=1919246N16299#app=3d30&3722-selectedIndex=1
10 September 1976 → Tropical Storm Kathleen hit San Diego, CA causing widespread flooding and producing 72 mph wind gusts. A foot of rain fell in a few places in the mountains from the 9th to the 12th, with rainfall rates up to an inch per hour. Six people were killed.  
10 September 2003 → A Florida couple won $21 million when they bought the winning lottery ticket while shopping for a surge protector after lightning had struck their TV set.
10 September 1998: Tropical Storm Frances made landfall near Matagorda Bay, TX, causing the worst coastal flooding and beach erosion since Hurricane Carla in 1961. The storm's heavy rains ended a drought in East Texas, but caused serious river flooding in parts of Texas and Louisiana. The highest rain total noted was 21.10 inches at Terrytown in southeast Louisiana. A major disaster declaration was issued for Cameron, Jefferson, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes in Louisiana.
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Tropical Storm Frances near peak intensity on September 10 at 2040 UTC. This image was produced from data from NOAA-14, provided by NOAA.
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11 September 1961 → Hurricane Carla made landfall and battered the central Texas coast with wind gusts to 175 mph and up to 17 inches of rain. Most of the fatalities associated with the hurricane were actually from tornadoes spawned by the powerful storm.
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/carla1961.html
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/crp/?n=hurricanecarla
11 September 1970 → A significant tornado outbreak struck northeast Italy, including the cities of Padua and Venice. 36 people were killed.
11 September 1974 → Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashed just short of the runway in dense fog while attempting to land at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. Of the 82 people on board, 72 died, including the father and two older brothers of comedian Stephen Colbert.
11 September 1976 → Idaho, Oregon, and Montana were drenched with heavy rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Kathleen, which took a rare path across the western United States after striking Mexico.
11 September 1992 → With sustained winds of 145 mph and gusts to 175 mph, Hurricane Iniki pulverized Kauai. The worst storm in recorded history in Hawaii and one of the 10 worst in US history; it caused between $2 billion and $3 billion in damage.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/assessments/iniki/iniki1.pdf
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/pages/examples/Tuesday_Iniki20yrs.pdf
11 September 2002 → A tree limb snapped on a windy day in Union County, NJ and fell on a group of students eating lunch outside. One student was killed, 12 were injured. 
11 September 1992: Hurricane Iniki struck the island of Kaua'i with winds of 145 mph and a central pressure of 27.91 inches of mercury, making it a Category 4 hurricane. This is the strongest hurricane to strike the Hawaii Island in recent history.
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Hurricane Iniki at peak intensity on September 11 at 2358 UTC. This image was produced from data from NOAA-11, provided by NOAA.
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12 September 1944 → An Air Force plane lost some of the rivets from its wings as it flew into the Great Atlantic Hurricane. The hurricane was a category 5.  http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/greatatlantic1944.html
12 September 1961 → An F4 tornado spawned by Hurricane Carla destroyed about 200 buildings in Galveston, TX, at 3:15 in the morning. Eight deaths and 55 injuries were reported with this tornado.
12 September 1961 → Super Typhoon Nancy generated 215 mph surface winds as determined by reconnaissance aircraft. Fortunately the storm was well out to sea 1400 miles south of Tokyo, though it would go on to devastate Japan four days later.
12 September 1979 → Hurricane Frederic, a former Category 4 storm, made landfall at Dauphin Island, AL with 125mph winds. Though damage was widespread, timely evacuations resulted in almost no loss of life.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mob/?n=frederic
12 September 1988 → The island of Jamaica was given a devastating hit by Hurricane Gilbert.  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1988gilbert.html
12 September 2013 → Torrential rains began on the evening of the 11th along the Colorado Front Range and continued into the 12th. By the 13th some locations, such as Boulder, received more rain in 3 days than ever before in any previous month. The resultant flooding was catastrophic and resulted in the loss of nine lives and millions of dollars in property damage. 
http://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/historic-rainfall-and-floods-colorado
12 September 1961: Super Typhoon Nancy was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone of the 1961 Pacific typhoon season. The system had possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, and caused extensive damage and at least 173 deaths and thousands of injuries in Japan and elsewhere. A reconnaissance aircraft flying into the typhoon near its peak intensity on September 12 determined Nancy's one-minute sustained winds to be 215 mph. If these values are reliable, they would be the highest wind speeds ever measured in a tropical cyclone. However, it was later determined that measurements and estimations of wind speeds from the 1940s to 1960s were excessive. Thus, Nancy's winds may actually be lower than its official best-track value.
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Super Typhoon Nancy of 1961 on September 14th. Image Courtesy from the Navy.
12 September 1999: Hurricane Floyd, a Category 4 storm with top winds of 145 mph, was making residents along the U.S. East Coast very nervous as it steamed steadily westward. Floyd was once forecast to strike Florida, but turned away. Instead, Floyd struck The Bahamas at peak strength, causing heavy damage. It then paralleled the East Coast of the United States, causing massive evacuations and costly preparations from Florida through the Mid-Atlantic states.
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Visual comparison of Hurricane Floyd and Hurricane Andrew. The two storms are at similar positions and nearly identical intensities (933 mbar), but Hurricane Floyd is remarkably larger.
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13 September 1928 → The hurricane that struck Puerto Rico was called the San Felipe Hurricane because that is the saint's day on which it struck. One thousand people died.
13 September 1928 → F4 tornadoes struck Nebraska, South Dakota, and Iowa. Three small country schools in eastern Nebraska were swept clean of their foundations, but many lives were saved thanks to local farmers rushing to the schools to warn of the approaching storms.
13 September 1988 → A reconnaissance plane measured Hurricane Gilbert as the strongest Atlantic hurricane (up to that time) at 888 millibars.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1988gilbert.html
13 September 1993 → Denver experienced a record 5-inch early season snow. The day before this, it had been 90 degrees.
13 September 1944: The destroyer USS Warrington was sunk by the Great Atlantic Hurricane 300 miles east of Cape Canaveral, Florida. 247 men were lost in the tragedy.
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The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Warrington (DD-383) in Perles Bay, Panama Canal Zone, 23 April 1943. Official U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-43686 from destroyerhistory.org
13 September 1988: Hurricane Gilbert, a Category 4 storm with top winds of 145 mph, was making residents along the U.S. East Coast very nervous as it steamed steadily westward. Floyd was once forecast to strike Florida, but turned away. Instead, Floyd struck The Bahamas at peak strength, causing heavy damage. It then paralleled the East Coast of the United States, causing massive evacuations and costly preparations from Florida through the Mid-Atlantic states.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/September/Sep%2012%2C%201999%20Hurricane%20Floyd.jpg
Visual comparison of Hurricane Floyd and Hurricane Andrew`. The two storms are at similar positions and nearly identical intensities (933 mbar), but Hurricane Floyd is remarkably larger.
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14 September 1984 → In West Goshen Township, PA lightning struck a soccer field leaving 26 people injured and 4 people hospitalized.
14 September 1988 → Hurricane Gilbert devastated Jamaica. It had winds up to 184 mph and a barometric pressure of 26.2 inches. It caused serious flooding in the Monterrey region when it later made landfall in northern Mexico.  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/#gilbert
14 September 1928: A violent tornado, estimated at F4 intensity with winds over 200 mph, tore across Rockford, Illinois. The tornado first touched down 8 miles south-southwest of Rockford, and moved across the southeast part of the city. The tornado was on the ground for 25 miles with a width varying from 200 to 500 feet. A total of 14 people were killed, with around 100 injuries reported in Rockford alone. Two hundred buildings were damaged or destroyed.
Image from the Monthly Weather Review published in September, 1928.
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14 September 2008: Hurricane Ike became extratropical on this day. The St. Louis Metropolitan Area experienced hurricane conditions, with Ike's remnants inflicting severe damage to homes. Several areas in Illinois and Indiana, already flooded by the frontal boundary to the north, saw significant additional rainfall. Due to flooding in Chicago, a state of emergency was declared for Cook County due to flooding of the Des Plaines River. Hurricane-force wind gusts were reported to the east of the center across parts of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania with significant wind damage including structural damage to buildings and trees.
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Storm total rainfall map of Hurricane Ike during September 2008. Image Courtesy from the Weather Prediction Center.
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15 September 1988 → A tornado tracked along a 25-mile path in Senekal, South Africa, resulting in two fatalities.
15 September 1989 → "Princess", the Hurricane Hunter reconnaissance plane, was nearly lost when it went into the eye of Hurricane Hugo. It apparently hit a tornado-like vortex and lost one of its four engines. Fortunately the crew found a weaker spot in the eyewall and escaped.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/chs/events/hugo.shtml
15 September 1747: There are some historical reports of a hurricane that caused flooding on the Rappahannock River in Virginia. A slave ship was overturned and several fatalities were reported.
15 September 1945: A hurricane entered the south Florida coast at Homestead, curving northward right up through the center of Florida, remaining over land, and exited near Jacksonville Beach with winds gusting to 170 mph. The following is from the Homestead Air Reserve Base.  "On Sept. 15, 1945, three years to the day after the founding of the Homestead Army Air Field, a massive hurricane roared ashore, sending winds of up to 145 miles per hour tearing through the Air Field's buildings. Enlisted housing facilities, the nurses' dormitory, and the Base Exchange were all destroyed. The roof was ripped from what would later become building 741, the Big Hangar. The base laundry and fire station were both declared total losses. The few remaining aircraft were tossed about like leaves."
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Surface weather analysis of Hurricane Nine on 16 September 1945.
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16 September 1888 → A tornado in Washington, D.C., probably an F2, traveled up Maryland Avenue before it lifted at the foot of Capitol Hill. The Smithsonian and Botanical Gardens were damaged along the two-mile-long path.
16 September 1926 → The Great Miami Hurricane struck that city as a Category 4. The eye of the storm crossed directly over downtown Miami and lasted for 35 minutes, prompting people to return to the streets where subsequently many were killed as the second half of the storm roared in. Very little of Miami and Miami Beach were left intact.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/?n=miamihurricane1926
16 September 1928 → On this day, a hurricane made landfall in south Florida, passing over Lake Okeechobee. The official death toll was set at 1,836 people.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/?n=okeechobee
16 September 1999 → A massive former Category 4, Hurricane Floyd came ashore in North Carolina. Tropical storm force winds extended nearly 600 miles out from the storm's center. 35 of the storm's 57 fatalities occurred in North Carolina. Up to 19 inches of rain soaked southeastern North Carolina just 11 days after Hurricane Dennis brought up to 15 inches of rain to the region. Flooding was rampant, with much of the worst conditions occurring during the overnight hours catching people unaware.  http://www.erh.noaa.gov/mhx/Floyd/   
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ilm/tropics/past_storms/1995_1999/1999/dennis/dennis.html
16 September 2004 → Hurricane Ivan made landfall in Alabama as a Category 3, but had been a powerful Category 5 four days earlier over the Gulf of Mexico. It had been Category 4 or stronger for 192 consecutive hours. It was the most southerly category 3 (at 10 degrees north latitude), 4 (11 degrees N), and 5 (14 degrees N) storm ever seen in the Atlantic. After landfall the storm took a bizarre track northward into Tennessee, then east off the Maryland coast, then back ashore in southern Florida, westward into the Gulf, and then making yet another landfall in Louisiana.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_ivan2004
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mob/?n=ivan
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ctp/features/2004/Ivan/Ivan.php
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16 September 1881: Iowa's earliest measurable snow of record fell over western sections of the state. Four to six inches was reported between Stuart and Avoca.
16 September 1888: An estimated F2 tornado struck Washington, DC. The tornado first touching down on the south side of the city then moved up Maryland Avenue. The National Museum and Botanical Gardens were damaged before the tornado lifted off the ground.
16 September 2004: Hurricane Ivan turned northward over cooler waters, and made landfall in southern Alabama on September 16 as a 120 mph hurricane. Hurricane Ivan had a very unusual track almost making a very large circle.
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As Hurricane Ivan's sustained 200 kilometer per hour winds wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, the swirling eye of the hurricane was photographed on September 11, 2004 from aboard the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) at an altitude of about 230 miles.
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Hurricane Ivan: WSR-88D 0.5 reflectivity scan at landfall.

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17 September 1932 → A tropical storm struck the Annapolis Valley in the Canadian Maritimes, destroying 300,000 barrels of apples in Nova Scotia. A second tropical storm would strike Nova Scotia just seven days later.
17 September 1936 → Tropical storm remnants brought up to 30 inches of rain to central Texas, resulting in massive flooding. In San Angelo the Concho River reached one of its highest stages on record and inundated the city. One thousand homes were damaged or destroyed, two bridges were swept away, and there were 100 rescues performed. Water was six feet deep in the lobby of the Naylor Hotel. 
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/sjt/?n=events-1936flood
17 September 1947 → The Fort Lauderdale Hurricane struck the east coast of Florida as a high-end Category 4, resulting in 51 fatalities. Hurricane force winds extended 120 miles out from the center, and produced the highest measured ground wind speeds in a Florida hurricane until Hurricane Andrew. The storm then crossed the Gulf of Mexico and produced 110 mph winds at New Orleans.
17 September 2004 → Flooding and mudslides killed more than 3,000 people in Haiti in Hurricane Jeanne. 
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tbw/?n=tampabayweatherhurricanejeanne
17 September 1829: The Siebold Typhoon, Japan's most catastrophic typhoon, inflicts widespread damage over much of Japan. On the southern island of Kyushu, the storm surge off the Ariake Sea kills 10,000.
17 September 1989: Hurricane Hugo hit the Virgin Islands, producing wind gusts to 97 mph at Saint Croix. Hurricane Hugo passed directly over the island of Saint Croix causing complete devastation and essentially cutting off the island from communications. A storm surge of five to seven feet occurred at Saint Croix. The only rain gauge left operating, at Caneel Bay, indicated 9.40 inches in 24 hours. Hurricane Hugo claimed the lives of three persons at Saint Croix, and caused more than 500 million dollars damage.
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18 September 1988 → In Cold Bay, AK, winds up to 75 mph and gusts up to 96 mph were caused by the remnants of Typhoon Hal.
18 September 1991 → Duluth, MN, saw 2.4" of snow, making it their earliest snow on record and heaviest September snowfall by almost an inch.
18 September 2003 → Though Hurricane Isabel had reached Category 5 status as it crossed the entire width of the Atlantic Ocean, it had weakened to a Category 2 by the time it made landfall in North Carolina on this date. Nevertheless, flooding was extreme as the storm produced up to 20 inches of rainfall in North Carolina and Virginia.  http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/isabel2003.html
18 September 1926: The great "Miami Hurricane" produced winds reaching 138 mph that drove ocean waters into the Biscayne Bay drowning 135 persons. The eye of the hurricane passed over Miami, at which time the barometric pressure reached 27.61 inches. Tides up to twelve feet high accompanied the hurricane, which claimed a total of 372 lives. File:1926 Miami Hurricane analysis 18 Sep 1926.jpg
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Surface analysis of the 1926 Miami hurricane impacting southern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane. Adjusted for inflation and wealth normalization, this hurricane is the costliest in Atlantic recorded history. Estimated cost in U.S. dollars (2010) was 164.8 billion dollars.
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Panoramic view of Miami after the hurricane, wryly titled "Miami's New Drydock"; September 18, 1926. Image Courtesy from the Library of Congress.
18 September 1941: One of the greatest aurora borealis or northern lights ever observed in the central Atlantic and mid-central portions of the U.S. occurred on the night of September 18-19th. The displays continued from twilight to just before dawn, and were observed as far south as Florida and southern California.
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19 September 1559 → The first hurricane in recorded U.S. history hit Pensacola, FL. As many as seven Spanish expedition ships may have been destroyed.
19 September 1955 → Hurricane Ione made landfall near Morehead City, NC with winds over 100 mph. 16.63 inches of rain fell near Maysville, NC. 40 blocks of New Bern, NC were underwater at one point. Seven people lost their lives and total damage was $88 million. This was the third hurricane to cross eastern North Carolina in 5 weeks.  http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/ione1955.html
19 September 2003 → Frog eggs rained on Berlin, CT, during a rain shower from Hurricane Isabel. Since frogs in Connecticut do not lay eggs so late in the year, scientists believed that the storm had carried the eggs from its landfall point in North Carolina, more than 500 miles away.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/tropics/isabel.htm 
19 September 1947: A hurricane made landfall near the Chandeleur Islands, LA on September 19, 1947. Wind gusts of 112 mph and a central pressure of 967 mb were measured at Moisant International Airport. A storm surge of 9.8 ft reached Shell Beach, Lake Borgne. Moisant Airport field was under 2 ft of water while Jefferson Parish was flooded to depths of 3.28 ft. New Orleans suffered $100 million in damages. Total loss of life was 51 persons. As a result of this storm, hurricane protection levees were built along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain to protect Orleans and Jefferson Parishes from future storm surges.
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Moissant Airport flooded after the 19 September 1947 Hurricane. Image Courtesy from the US Army Corps of Engineers.
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20 September 1845 → The "Great Adirondack Tornado," really a family of up to 4 tornadoes, traversed an incredible 275 miles, tearing down many thousands of trees across northern New York and northern Vermont. The damage path from the tornadoes and associated downburst winds was up to a mile and a half wide. Hailstones were as big as hens' eggs.
20 September 1987 → A vivid rainbow was seen at Fort Simpson, in the Northwest Territories of Canada, during a visit by Pope John Paul II.
20 September 1909: A large and deadly Category 3 hurricane made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana during the late evening hours. The states of Louisiana and Mississippi show catastrophic damage resulting in 371 deaths and $265 million in damage (2010 USD).
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Above is the surface weather analysis of the 1909 Grand Isle hurricane (Hurricane Eight) over the southern United States of September 21st.
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The image above is the aftermath of the September 1909 hurricane. 6 photos of damage in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi on front page of Daily Picayune.
20 September 1961: On September 10th, the Television Infrared Observation Satellite observed an area of thunderstorms west-southwest of the Cape Verde islands, suggesting a possible tropical cyclone. This is the first large tropical cyclone to be discovered on satellite imagery and would eventually become Hurricane Esther. On September 20th, Hurricane Esther, a Category 4 storm off of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina began to slow down as it moved north-northeast well off the Jersey shore. The storm continued to weaken as it did a 5 day loop south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, then moved across Cape Cod and into Maine on the 26th.
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Above is Tropical Cyclone Esther on September 10, 1961, two days before its existence was confirmed by aircraft reconnaissance. The image is courtesy of the Monthly Weather Review, published in 1961.
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/090/mwr-090-03-0107.pdf
A NASA satellite image of Hurricane Esther in 1961. This makes it one of the first satellite images taken of a hurricane. Image Courtesy from NASA.
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The background image is from NASA. Tracking data from the National Hurricane Center.
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21 September 1588 → After an unsuccessful battle with the English fleet, the Spanish Armada encountered strong storms and high winds off the coast of Ireland on its way back to Spain. 26 ships are believed to have been lost. The remaining ships limped back to Spain defeated and demoralized, ending the reign of the once unbeatable Spanish Armada.
21 September 1894 → A huge tornado outbreak swept from Iowa through Minnesota to Wisconsin, with an unusual number of extremely violent tornadoes. The tornado that rampaged through Kossuth County, MN, was likely an F5 as homes and farms were wiped clean from the earth.
21 September 1909 → A category 3 hurricane crossed the Gulf of Mexico and came ashore in southern Louisiana. The storm inflicted 120 mph winds on southeast Louisiana and took its storm surge 2 miles inland. There were about 371 fatalities despite the Weather Bureau having issued its first warnings for the storm three days earlier.
21 September 1938 → The New England Hurricane was one of the most destructive and powerful storms ever to strike southern New England. The storm roared ashore over Long Island, NY at nearly 60 mph at the time of high tide. This created a deadly tidal surge, which submerged downtown Providence, RI under 20 feet of water. Hurricane force winds were felt throughout New England, with a gust to 186 mph at the Blue Hill Observatory in Milton, MA. The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 was responsible for over 500 deaths.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/#new
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea02392.htm
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea02382.htm
http://www.weather.gov/box/1938hurricane

21 September 1894: A late season severe weather outbreak occurred across northwest Iowa, south central Minnesota and southwestern Wisconsin during the late evening hours. Several communities were impacted by this outbreak with an estimated 55 to 65 deaths, and in additional 300 injuries. The strongest tornado was an estimated F5, which tore through the counties of Kossuth, Hancock, Winnebago in Iowa, and Faribault in Minnesota.
See also entry for 21 Sep 1894 in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
21 September 1924: A couple of tornadoes, one rated F4 and the other F5, tore paths of devastation through Eau Claire, Clark, and Taylor Counties in Wisconsin. The death toll was 18 and 50 people were injured. Click HERE for more information from the Monthly Weather Review.
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/052/mwr-052-09-0448.pdf
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The image above is from the Oberley farm in Clark County, Wisconsin. Click HERE for more information the Clark County, Wisconsin Internet Library.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/wi/county/clark/thorp/tragedies/1924cyclone/1924Tornado.htm
See also http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
21 September 1938: On this day, one of the most destructive and powerful hurricanes in recorded history struck Long Island and Southern New England. This Category 3 Hurricane was traveling at 47 mph when it made landfall near Bellport, New York. This storm caused at least 600 deaths and left approximately 63,000 homeless. Click HERE for more information from the NWS Office in New York City, NY.  http://www.weather.gov/okx/1938HurricaneHome
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Above is the surface map on September 21, 1938, at 7:30 AM, EST.
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Above is the surface map on September 22, 1938, at 7:30 AM, EST.
21 September 1989: Hurricane Hugo made landfall on Isle of Palms, South Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane. This storm brought strong winds to many areas of South Carolina. In Downtown Charleston, sustained winds of 87 mph were reported; along with gusts of 108 mph. Total damage from this hurricane is estimated at $10 billion, including $5.2 billion in the United States. The National Weather Service office in Charleston, SC has a page dedicated to Hurricane Hugo. Click HERE for more information.
http://www.weather.gov/chs/Hugo25thAnniversary
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Image Courtesy from the National Hurricane Center. Click HERE for more images.  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1989hugo.html
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22 September 1810 → Fernhill Heath, England, was struck by what was probably Europe's widest tornado, with some reports saying the twister was nearly a mile across. Modern analysis suggests it was an EF4.
22 September 1869 → Cleveland Abbe  began forecasting weather in Cincinnati. Professor Abbe was one of the nation's pioneer weather forecasters and observers.   http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/nws_history_articulate/history_presentation/player/playershell.swf
22 September 1989 → Hurricane Hugo made landfall in the Carolinas with winds up to 140 mph. Hugo caused $7 billion in damage in the United States and $3 billion in the Caribbean. All together, the death toll was 76.  
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/chs/events/hugo.shtml
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/hugo1989.html
22 September 1998 → Hurricane Georges raked Hispanola after reaching category 4 status, leaving 580 dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, due mainly to flash flooding and subsequent mud slides in high terrain regions. Damage estimates from the storm exceeded $1 billion (US). Vivid lightning and possible blue jets, a type of rare upward lightning, were reported as the eye passed over the mountains of Hispanola.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/sju/?n=1998_georges
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/georges/georges.html
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/stories/sir19b.html

22 September 1810: A tornado striking Fernhill Heath had a path width between 0.5 to 1 mile, making it the widest path ever in Britain.
Artist's impression of the Fernhill Heath tornado
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Artist's impression of the Fernhill Heath tornado (Chris Chatfield).
22 September 1890: A severe hailstorm struck Strawberry, Arizona. Five days after the storm hail still lay in drifts 12 to 18 inches deep.
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23 September 1551 → The Grand Harbour, located in Valeeta, Malta, was hit by a tornado which moved inland and caused extensive damage. A shipping armada in the harbor about to go into battle was destroyed by the tornado, killing at least 600 people.
23 September 1815 → The poem "The September Gale," penned by Oliver Wendell Holmes, was written about a hurricane that struck New England on this date. Holmes was just six years old at the time.
23 September 1983 → Super Typhoon Forrest underwent extremely rapid intensification as its central pressure crashed 92mb in just under 24 hours.
23 September 1722: New Orleans was founded May 7, 1718, by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. Four years later, a hurricane destroys nearly every building in the village, including the only church and hospital.
23 September 1975: On September 22, the cyclone intensified to attain Category 2 strength, and became a major hurricane of Category 3 status shortly thereafter as it turned towards the northeast. Several ships penetrated the storm's center during its passage through the gulf. Hurricane Eloise continued to strengthen until it reached its peak winds of 125 mph and a minimum barometric pressure of about 955 mbar. It moved ashore along the Florida Panhandle near Panama City on September 23.
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This weather satellite picture of Hurricane Eloise was taken on September 22, 1975 at 1700 UTC.
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Damage in the Florida Panhandle from Hurricane Eloise, a Category 3 tropical cyclone. Image Courtesy from NOAA Photo Library.
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24 September 1926 → At Riverside Ranger Station in Yellowstone National Park the temperature dropped to -9, the lowest recorded temperature in the United States in September.
24 September 1985 → Hurricane Gloria was the first major storm to occur after the introduction of 24-hour cable news, and received unprecedented "wall-to-wall" coverage as it approached the East Coast.  http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/gloria1985.html
24 September 2005 → Hurricane Rita made landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border as a Category 3 hurricane with 120-mph winds. 
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremeevents/specialreports/Hurricane-Rita2005.pdf
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/?n=rita_main
24 September 1926: The temperature at Yellowstone Park drops to 9 degrees below zero, making it the coldest September reading ever recorded in the US.
24 September 1939: "El Cordonazo" or "The Lash of St. Francis" a tropical storm hits Southern California and causes the greatest September rainfall ever. The storm lost hurricane status shortly before moving onshore at San Pedro at tropical storm strength.
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Track map of the 1939 California tropical storm. Image Courtesy from the National Weather Service Office in Los Angeles/Oxnard.
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25 September 1939 → A tropical storm called "El Cordonazo" ("the lash" or "whip") made landfall near Los Angeles. It was the only time in the 20th Century that the center of a tropical storm made landfall still at tropical storm strength on the California coast.  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/lox/safety/lgb_ts.jpg
25 September 1947 → A camera that was mounted above a rocket captured a previously undetected tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
25 September 2004 → Hurricane Jeanne, a Category Three hurricane, made landfall in near Stuart, Florida. It was almost in the same spot where Hurricane Frances had made landfall three weeks before.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/?n=jeanne
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/?n=frances
25 September 1848: The Great Gale of 1848, was the most severe hurricane to affect Tampa Bay and is one of two major hurricanes to make landfall in the area. This storm produced the highest storm tide ever experienced in Tampa Bay when the water rose 15 feet in six to eight hours.
25 September 1998: Four hurricanes were spinning simultaneously in the Atlantic basin: Georges, Ivan, Jeanne, and Karl. That was the first time this had happened since 1893.
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26 September 1881 → Japan's deadliest tornado occurred when 16 people were killed at Miyazaki, near the southern tip of the country. The elementary school was destroyed.
26 September 1898 → A school teacher saved 40 children from death in Merritton, Ontario, when she spotted an approaching tornado and led her students to a safe corner. Unfortunately, falling debris did kill one of the children and injured several others.
26 September 1959 → The passage of Typhoon Vera over Japan was the country's greatest storm disaster to that date. The death toll reached nearly 5000, with 1.5 million homeless. The typhoon dealt a staggering blow to the economy with tremendous damage to roads, bridges and communications from wind, floods and landslides.
26 September 1955: On this date, the Atlantic reconnaissance aircraft, "Snowcloud Five" went down while investigating Hurricane Janet and was never heard from again. Lt. Comdr. Windham with crew of 8 and 2 newspapermen reported that they were about to begin penetrating the main core of the hurricane. They were never heard from again.
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26 September 1971: Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft into them and seeding with silver iodide. The project was run by the United States Government from 1962 to 1983. Hurricane Ginger in 1971 was the last hurricane Project Stormfury seeded. 
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27 September 1955 → The U.S. Navy Neptune P2V-3W plane had a mission when it took off in the morning: obtain observations in Hurricane Janet in the Caribbean. After their 8:30 a.m. report detailing their plans to enter the eyewall, no other communication was ever received from them again. No trace of the plane or of the 11 men aboard have been found.
27 September 1985 → Hurricane Gloria passed over North Carolina's Outer Banks during the morning hours.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/mhx/EventReviews/19850927/19850927.php
27 September 1987 → Tons of mud and rock were loosened by a week of heavy rain on Sugar Loaf Mountain near Medellin, Colombia. The resulting mudslide killed 183 people.
27 September 1999 → The Cray C-90 Supercomputer at National Weather Service headquarters was knocked out by an electrical fire. The supercomputer ran several numerical weather prediction models.
27 September 2009 → Tropical storm rains dropped a month's worth of precipitation in 12 hours on Manila, Philippines. It caused the worst flooding in over four decades.
27 September 1822: Using various documents and meteorological observations determined a hurricane moved ashore on this day in South Carolina. One account from Bull Island, South Carolina documents the eye passing directly over that location.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/September/Sep%2027%2C%201822%20SC%20Hurricane.jpg
Image Courtesy from the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.
27 September 1959: Typhoon Vera was the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the islands of Japan. Damage totals from this typhoon is estimated at $4.85 billion (USD 2015). An estimated 4,000 deaths occurred from Typhoon Vera. This Category 5 Typhoon first made landfall on September 26 near Shionomisaki on Honshu. Vera transitioned to an extratropical cyclone on September 27, which continued to affect the island for an additional two days.
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Track map of Typhoon Vera of the 1959 Pacific typhoon season.
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28 September 1936 → An early season snowstorm buried Denver, CO. A storm total of 16.5 inches fell in 60 hours.
28 September 1971 → Atlantic Hurricane Irene crossed Nicaragua to reform in the eastern Pacific as Hurricane Olivia. Olivia recurved northeast and made landfall in central Baja California. The deserts of southern California received an inch of rain.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E15.html
28 September 1994 → The auto ferry Estonia capsized and sank quickly in rough waters in the Baltic Sea. It was reported that there were at least 6-foot waves in the area. About 900 people lost their lives, while there were 141 survivors.
28 September 2004 → The remnants of Hurricane Jeanne, combined with two cold fronts, produced precipitation leading to rising rivers and flooded roads in the northern portion of Delaware, resulting in swamped vehicles. An F2 tornado in northern New Castle County damaged numerous planes and buildings at the airport and injured five people. Damage totaled around $1 million.
28 September 1837: The first recorded storm to rake the entire Texas coast was Racer's Storm, named for a British sloop of war which encountered the system in the extreme northwestern Caribbean on September 28th. It is remembered as one of the most destructive storms of the nineteenth century due to its extreme duration and 2000 mile path of destruction.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/September/Sep%2028%2C%201837%20Racer%27s%20Hurricane.jpg

Image Courtesy from the Weather Prediction Center. The numbers next to the hurricane symbols are dates.
28 September 1998: On the morning of September 28th, Hurricane George made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi with maximum winds of 110 mph and a minimum pressure of 964 mb, making it a Category 2 hurricane. After landfall, Georges moved very slowly across southern Mississippi and weakened to a tropical depression by the morning of the 29th when the center was about 30 miles north northeast of Mobile, Alabama. The storm dissipated near the northeast Florida/southeast Georgia coast by the morning of October 1, 1998. Click HERE for more information from the National Weather Service Office in Mobile.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mob/?n=georges
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29 September 1896 → In 1896 Cedar Key, FL was a bustling seaport. A major hurricane's ten foot storm surge nearly destroyed the community.
29 September 1927 → An F3 tornado hit St. Louis and more than 200 city blocks were torn apart. 79 people were killed and 550 were injured.
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/055/mwr-055-09-0405.pdf
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lsx/1927stltornado.pptx

29 September 1938 → In Charleston, SC, five tornadoes touched down killing 32 people and doing $2 million in damages. The storms formed in the remnants of a tropical depression that moved northeastward along the southeast U.S. coast. Damage occurred right across the street from where the U.S. Weather Bureau office was located in downtown Charleston at the time.
29 September 1996 → A large severe weather outbreak, including three tornadoes, struck New South Wales, Australia. Winds to 100mph and golf ball sized hail, in addition to the tornadoes, caused $340 million in losses.
29 September 1927: An outbreak of tornadoes from Oklahoma to Indiana caused 81 deaths and 25 million dollars damage. A tornado, possibly two tornadoes, cut an eight-mile long path across St Louis, Missouri, to Granite City, Illinois, killing 79 persons. Click HERE for an estimated storm track with damage photos.  http://maps.stlouisco.com/stories/Tornadoes/1927/ 
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/September/Sep%2C%2029th%2C%201927%20St_%20Louis%20Tornado%20Damage.jpg
Image from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Click HERE for more information, including photos.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/look-back/a-look-back-tornado-in-kills-in-st-louis/article_7d13acbe-58bf-525b-b50d-560506df7324.html
http://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/a-look-back-tornado-in-kills-in-st-louis/article_7d13acbe-58bf-525b-b50d-560506df7324.html
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30 September 1971 → Known as the Grande Dame of Hurricanes, Hurricane Ginger was the longest lasting Atlantic hurricane of the 20th Century. She began her 27 day journey east of the Bahamas, went out to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, then turned around and came back to the west. The storm struck the North Carolina coast on this date, bringing 10 inches of rain and $10 million in damage.
30 September 1987 → South Bend, IN received a thunder snowstorm.
30 September 1896: A hurricane formed on September 22 and lasted until September 30. It formed directly over the Lesser Antilles and hit Cuba, Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. Its maximum sustained winds were at 130 mph. The heaviest rainfall deposited in association with the storm was 19.96 inches at Glennville, Georgia. This hurricane was responsible for an estimated 130 deaths and $1.5 million in damage (1896 dollars).
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/September/Sep%2030%2C%201896%20Hurricane%20of%201896.jpg
Damage reports along the center track of the hurricane as it passed through Cedar Key, FL.

30 September 1992: The past month was the coldest September ever recorded in interior Alaska. Fairbanks averaged a frigid 31.7° which was 13.2° below normal and the first below freezing September ever. Beginning on the 9th and on every day for the rest of the month, a new record low was set for either low minimums or low maximums, or both. On this date, the city plunged to 3° to set a new all-time record low for September. Snowfall for the month totaled 24.4 inches which was more than three times the previous record for September.
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See also From MPX "This Day in Weather History"  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mpx/WxHistory.php
New version: From MPX "This Day in Weather History"  http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory 
This "Day in Weather History" contains come 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.
September 1
1 September 1926: Perhaps the most intense rainfall rate ever in downtown Minneapolis occurred on this date in a thunderstorm when 1.02 inches of rain fell in six minutes, starting at 2:59pm in the afternoon according to the Minneapolis Weather Bureau. The deluge, accompanied with winds of 42 mph, caused visibility to be reduced to a few feet at times and stopped all streetcar and automobile traffic. At the intersection of Second and Sixth Streets in downtown Minneapolis, rushing water tore a manhole cover off, and a geyser of water spouted 20 feet in the air. Hundreds of wooden paving blocks were uprooted and floated onto neighboring lawns-much to the delight of barefooted children seen scampering among the blocks after the rain ended.
1 September 1894: The Great Hinckley Fire. Drought conditions started a massive fire that began near Mille Lacs and spread to the east. The firestorm destroyed Hinckley and Sandstone and burned a forest area the size of the Twin City Metropolitan Area. Smoke from the fires brought shipping on Lake Superior to a standstill.
1 September 1807: The earliest known comprehensive Minnesota weather record began near Pembina. The temperature at midday was 86 degrees and a "strong wind until sunset."
September 2
2 September 1996: Approximately 8 inches of rain fell over 2 1/2-hour period in the Mankato area resulting in flash flooding. Numerous roads were closed, basements flooded and $100,000 of damage caused from a lightning strike in Lehiller.
2 September 1992: Severe weather affected several counties in the western parts of the MSP County Warning Area. Several tornadoes were reported along with 3/4-inch hail and damaging winds as the system passed through Pope, Swift, Stearns, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Brown and Renville Counties.
2 September 1975: Severe weather rolled through Stevens, Swift, Kandiyohi, and Meeker counties. 1.50-inch hail was reported in Stevens and Swift. An F1 tornado also occurred in Swift at the time that the hail was reported. An hour later, another F1 Tornado was reported in Kandiyohi County while 69-knot winds occurred in Meeker County. Damages were estimated at $50,000 for the two tornadoes that touched down.
2 September 1937: Strong thunderstorms brought heavy rainfall to northern Minnesota, with 4.61 inches of rain dumped on Pokegama. Flooding was reported in Duluth.
September 3
3 September 1989: An early afternoon thunderstorm dropped 1 3/4-inch diameter hail in Stearns and Morrison Counties.
3 September 1980: An F2 tornado resulted in $2.5 million in property damage later an F3 touched down causing $25 million in damages in Stearns County.
3 September 1970: The record-setting hailstone fell that made Coffeyville, KS famous. It had a circumference of 17.5 inches and weighed 1.67 pounds.
3 September 1917: An earthquake was felt from Staples to Brainerd.
September 3
1980: An F2 tornado results in $2.5 million in property damage, followed by an F3 tornado causing $25 million in damages in Stearns County.
September 4
4 September 1992: Early morning storms resulted in 3/4- to 1 3/4-inch hail in Hennepin, Dakota, Rice and Goodhue Counties.
4 September 1941: A late season batch of tornadoes hit Minneapolis, New Brighton, and White Bear Lake, killing six people.  
See also entry for 4 Sep 1941 from 
http://www.weather.gov/abr/events#histarchive
esp.  photos from Historic Minneapolis  
https://www.flickr.com/photos/12279886@N06/2982598405/in/photostream/
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
4 September 1925: The third consecutive day of 95 degrees or above occurred in the Minneapolis area.
September 5
5 September 1990: Nine inches of rain fell by the end of the following day in Duluth, washing out a million dollars worth in roads.
5 September 1982: 77-mph winds were reported in Anoka County.
September 6
6 September 1977: An early morning thunderstorm dropped 2-inch diameter hail in McLeod County.
6 September 1922: A heat wave over Minnesota brought high temperatures over 100 degrees in southwest Minnesota. One of the hot spots was New Ulm with 105 degrees.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
Also see entries for following day in both sites 

September 7
7 September 1990: Strong winds and hail up to 2 inches in diameter was reported in Swift, Douglas, Stevens, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns, and Waseca Counties.
7 September 1986: A touch of winter was felt over north Minnesota, with low temperatures of 20 degrees at Embarrass and 30 degrees at Duluth.
7 September 1922: The fifth consecutive day of 90 degrees or above occurred in the Minneapolis area.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
also see entry for previous day
September 8
8 September 1985: An F1 tornado touched down in Faribault County causing $25,000 worth of damage and hail up to 1 3/4 inches fell in Freeborn and Waseca Counties.
8 September 1968: 1 3/4-inch hail fell in Goodhue County.
8 September 1931: A record high temperature was set in St. Cloud with a temperature of 102 degrees Fahrenheit.
September 9
9 September 1979: 1 3/4-inch hail fell in Douglas County.
9 September 1917: Very chilly air spread across Minnesota,  with a low temperature  of 17 degrees reported at Roseau.
September 10
10 September 2002: A late-season tornado struck Albertville just after midnight. According to a damage survey conducted by NWS personnel, the tornado touched down on the eastern edge of Cedar Creek Golf Course, then it moved straight east and dissipated in a city park just west of the railroad tracks. It completely tore the roof off of one home. Roofs were partially off a number of other homes, many attached garages collapsed, and a couple of houses were rotated on their foundation. About 20 homes were damaged, nine of which sustained significant damage.
10 September 1986: 3-inch hail fell in Watonwan County.
See entry for day in  http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
10 September 1947: Downpour spread across the Iron Range. Hibbing received 8.6 inches in three hours.
10 September 1931: St Cloud reported a record high temperature of 106 degrees, while the temperature reached 104 degrees in Minneapolis.
10 September 1910: The shortest growing season on record in Duluth ended with frost-free days from 14 June to 10 September (87 days). Normally the frost-free season is 143 days.
September 11
11 September 1980: 3.35 inches of rain fell in the St. Cloud Area.
11 September 1942: A line of thunderstorms raced across Minnesota at 70 mph, producing severe winds that would destroy 651 barns in a 30-mile wide, 180-mile long path.
11 September 1931: Summer still had its grip on Minnesota, with a high temperature of 111 degrees at Beardsley.  The daytime high in St. Cloud was 96 degrees.
11 September 1900: The soggy remains of the Galveston Hurricane brought 6.65 inches of rain to St. Paul over a two-day span.
See also table at bottom of 
 http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/170824_hurricanes_minnesota.html
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
11 September 1807: Thick smoky weather was noted at Pembina.
September 12
12 September 1982: Two tornadoes touched down in Benton County. The F2 tornado caused $250,000 worth of damage and the F0 tornado caused $25,000.
12 September 1931: The fifth consecutive day of 90 degrees or above occurred in the Minneapolis area.
12 September 1923: Winter weather paid an early visit to northern Minnesota. Some cities that received flurries and sleet were Roseau and Virginia.
12 September 1903: 4.96 inches of rain fell in the Minneapolis area.
12 September 1869: A hail storm between 1 and 3 am broke windows and caused considerable damage to late vegetables at Madelia in Watonwan County.
September 13
13 September 1994: Lightning struck and injured a 35-year old man in Stearns County as he opened the door of his truck. Witnesses said he was thrown 10 feet when the lightning bolt struck him.
13 September 1834: Smoke filled the skies at Ft. Snelling due to fires burning nearby.
September 14
14 September 2099: The next total solar eclipse will take place over Minnesota. It will be visible in the Twin Cites, depending on the weather.
14 September 1964: The earliest official measurable snowfall occurred in Minnesota with 0.3 inches at International Falls.
14 September 1852: Early frost hit Ft. Snelling and ended the growing season.   
September 15
15 September 1939: The high temperature for Minneapolis was a daily record 98 degrees Fahrenheit.
15 September 1916: St. Paul received its earliest recorded snowfall.
September 16
16 September  2006: A rapidly forming tornado hit Rogers just before 10pm, killing a 10-year old girl.
16 September 1992: New Market received nearly a foot of rain. A bridge collapsed from floodwater in northern Le Sueur County.
16 September 1955: An F1 tornado touched down in Mille Lacs and Kanabec Counties causing one fatality and $500,000 in damages.
September 17
17 September 1955: A late-season tornado hit Koochiching County. Most damage was confined to trees.
17 September 1911: Pipestone was hit with baseball-sized hail that smashed numerous windows at the Calumet Hotel and high school. The local observer measured hail three inches deep. People got their photos taken in automobiles surrounded by the icy white ground.
September 18
18 September 1997: An F3 tornado destroyed several buildings and damaged numerous others. Hundreds of trees were knocked down. A number of cattle were also killed in a barn that collapsed. One man was injured when the tornado engulfed his car and threw it into a nearby woods. A second man was critically injured when his garage collapsed. He died several weeks later. The total path length of the tornado from 1 mile NE of Lastrup to Onamia was 17 miles. Total property damages were estimated at $1.7 Million. In total, 6 tornadoes touched down in Morrison, Mille Lacs, and Kanabec.
18 September 1991: Duluth received 2.5 inches of snow, five days before the autumnal equinox. 
18 September 1971: A brush fire at Lake Alexander in Morrison County spawned a 10-foot wide, 50-foot high "fire whirl." It moved out over the lake, overturned a 1,800 pound pontoon boat, and then dissipated as it moved back to shore.
18 September 1903: 3.75 inches of rain fell in the Minneapolis area.
September 19
19 September 1998: 1 to 1 3/4 inch hail fell in Meeker, Wright, Todd, and Wilkin Counties. Winds were also estimated over 50 kts (58 mph).
19 September 1980: Golfball to baseball sized hail hit St. Paul. One company had 75 to 95 percent of the glass in its greenhouses smashed.
September 20
20 September 2001: 3/4 to 1 3/4 inch hail fell in Freeborn and Faribault counties.
20 September 1972: A downpour in Duluth produced 5 1/2 inches of rain in ten hours.
September 21
21 September 2005: An unusually intense late season severe weather event affected parts of central Minnesota and west central Wisconsin during the late afternoon and evening hours. Baseball-sized hail, damaging thunderstorm winds, and tornadoes resulted from several supercell thunderstorms. The most widespread damage occurred across the northern and eastern portions of the Twin Cities. Three tornadoes raked across parts of Anoka and northern Hennepin counties, including an F2, but the tornado damage was overshadowed by the widespread extreme wind damage associated with the rear flank downdraft of the supercell. In addition to the severe weather, many locations received substantial amounts of rain. Many streets and underpasses in the northern Twin Cities metro area were flooded Wednesday night, where radar precipitation estimates were in excess of 3 inches.
21 September 1994: 1/2-inch hail in Blue Earth County resulted in $6 million in crop damages.
21 September 1924: A windstorm produced a peak gust of 64 mph in Duluth.
See http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/052/mwr-052-09-0448.pdf
See entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
September 22
22 September 1996: A brief cold air funnel touchdown resulted in roof damage in Washington County.
22 September 1936: Summer-like heat continued with temperatures of 101 degrees recorded at Ada, Beardsley and Moorhead.
September 23
23 September 1995: 0.2 inches of snow fell in the St. Cloud area.
23 September 1985: Early snow fell over portions of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Just under a half inch (.4) was recorded at the Twin City Airport, mostly during the afternoon.
23 September 1937: From summer to winter: The temperature was 101 degrees at Wheaton. Then a cold front came through causing the mercury to tumble below freezing.
September 24
24 September 1985: 0.4 inches of snow fell in the Minneapolis area.
See also http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory:
1985: 0.2" of snow fell in Wabasha, MN. This is their earliest measurable snowfall.
24 September 1982: Tropical air spread north over the state. The Twin Cities had a low temperature of 71 degrees.
24 September 1869: Heavy rain dumped nearly 10 inches on the White Earth Reservation.
September 25
25 September 1998: A wind gust to 78 mph was reported at Staples Municipal Airport, just to the north of Staples in Wadena County. In Todd county, trees were blown down in the city of Staples. Buildings were damaged at a farmstead on the northwest edge of the city. A roof was torn off of Stern Rubber Company. Rooftop heating and cooling units were ripped off McKechnie Tool and Engineering. In Mille Lacs County, 3-inch hail was reported, damaging many automobiles.
25 September 1929: Willmar experienced a deluge that dropped 5.22 inches of rain  in 24 hours.
September 26
26 September 1980:  A cold morning reported across Minnesota, with a low temperature of 20 degrees reported at Tower and 16 degrees at Embarrass.
26 September 1942: 1.8 inches of snow fell in St. Cloud.
See entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
See also entry for following day at MSP 
September 27
27 September 1942: The maximum temperature was 40 degrees Fahrenheit in Minneapolis.
27 September 1898: A heat wave produced high temperatures of 91 degrees at Beardsley and 90 degrees at Moorhead.
September 28
28 September 1983: Late summer arrived in Minnesota with temperatures of  91 degrees at Montevideo and 90 degrees at Elbow Lake.
28 September 1895: A "furious wind" at Pleasant Mound in Blue Earth County blew down grain stacks and corn shocks.
See entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
September 29
29 September 1876: An abnormally cool day occurred over the region, with a high temperature of 45 degrees in the Twin Cities (normally the high should be 65 degrees there this time of year).
September 30
30 September 1995: Lightning started a house on fire in Washington County.
30 September 1985: 4 inches of snow fell in Ely, with just a trace at the Twin Cities.
Above from  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.

September 1
1933: On September 1, 1933, a wildfire burned several lumber camps and then jumped U.S. Highway 2 near the intersection of M-64 in Gogebic County.
1891: On September 1, 1891, the wood schooner Evaline Bates, went ashore in a gale and filled with water near Beaver Island, MI in Lake Michigan. She was deemed too old and valueless to salvage, and was left to break up. Also went ashore on Grand Island, MI, in Lake Superior sometime in 1869 and was expected at that time to become a total loss.
1859: On September 1, 1859, the wood, passenger and package freight Manhattan, while carrying general freight and passengers, was trying to make shelter because of a gale, when she ran aground and was wrecked in the mouth of Grand Marais, MI harbor in Lake Superior. Her cargo was later removed by the scow Neptune and taken to Marquette, her original destination. The hulk partially blocked the entrance for almost 20 years.
1883: On September 1, 1883, the wood schooner Yankee Blade, while carrying 507 tons of iron ore, was bound St. Ignace, Michigan for Elk Rapids in a fresh wind and heavy sea, when she sprang a leak 8 miles south of Skillagallee and foundered a short time later in Lake Michigan. Her crew was just able to abandon her in time, and made their way to Cross Village, Mich. in the smallboat. Two crewmen had deserted just before she sailed, saying she was unseaworthy. She went down in 15 fathoms of water.
1979: On September 1, 1979, a severe thunderstorm produced a 61-mph wind gust 2.6 miles west of Hubbell in the early evening.
1998: On September 1, 1998, 1 inch hail (quarter sized) fell out of a severe thunderstorm in Birch Creek in the mid afternoon. A 30-inch diameter 50-ft tall tree was downed 1 mile north of Menominee in the mid afternoon.
September 2
1847: On September 2, 1847, the wood schooner Wisconsin, while carrying lumber, reportedly went ashore in a storm at Porte Des Mortes [Death's Door], WI in Lake Michigan and was a total loss. Out of Chicago.
1905: On September 2, 1905, the wood, bulk freight Iosco, while carrying iron ore, was towing ore-laden schooner Olive Jeanette, when she was struck by a terrific gale and foundered, exact position unknown, but probably between Portage Entry and Huron Islands in Lake Superior. The wood schooner, 4-mast, bulk freight Olive Jeanette was also lost while carrying iron ore with all 7 crew members perishing. All 19 crew members perished on the Iosco. In a separate incident, the wood schooner-barge, 3-mast Pretoria, while carrying iron ore, was the tow of the steamer Venezuela, which was underpowered for the task of towing and challenging a storm at the same time. The Pretoria broke her towrope and later foundered in a terrific gale near Outer Island in the Apostle Islands group in Lake Superior. The crewmen were lost when their yawl capsized near shore. 5 members of the 11-member crew perished. Pretoria was one of the largest wooden vessels ever built. In another incident, the steel, bulk freight Sevona, while carrying iron ore, was bound Duluth for Cleveland, when she was driven aground at Sand Island Shoals, Apostles Islands in Lake Superior and split in two in a gale. The after crew made it to shore, but those forward were lost when their hatchcover raft capsized near the beach and those 7 drowned. Parts of her were later salvaged. A survey of the wreck done in the early 90's shows that her two ends are still connected.
1905: On September 2, 1905, the wood schooner Julia, while carrying posts, stranded and wrecked in a gale while bound Escanaba for Menominee in the bay of Green Bay somewhere between Cedar River and Ford River, MI.
1904: On September 2, 1904, the wood schooner Lewie foundered in a gale off Two Harbors, MN in Lake Superior.
2002: On September 2, 2002, a cold front that moved across Lake Superior and Michigan's Upper Peninsula during the evening triggered a line of thunderstorms. A few of these storms produced damaging winds. Large tree branches were broken off in Big Bay.
2008: On September 2, 2008, severe thunderstorms caused damage over portions of Baraga and Marquette counties in the evening. Two 4-5 inch diameter spruce trees were knocked down 2 miles west northwest of Republic.
September 3
1916: On September 3, 1916, lightning struck a house in Negaunee injuring 4 people. Two occupants were thrown to the ground while the other two were injured by falling plaster. Many cellars flooded in Easterday district in Sault Ste Marie while Prospect Street flooded for the first time ever due to heavy rainfall from storms.
1942: On September 3, 1942, the steel, package/bulk freighter Steelvendor, while carrying steel billets, capsized and foundered in heavy seas in a gale off Manitou Island in Lake Superior. Her cargo was intended for war production. 1 crew member perished.
1976: On September 3, 1976, the Seney fire burned 64,000 acres and had a massive burnout this day in the northwest corner of the fire. An 81-mph gust out of a severe thunderstorm occurred at 1755 CST 8.1 miles east northeast of Hog Island in Lake Michigan.
1884: On September 3, 1884, the wood scow schooner J. Bigler, while carrying stone, was bound Nipigon for Chicago, when she foundered in a gale off Lower Entry to Keweenaw Waterway about 10 miles north of the Huron Islands in Lake Superior.
2010: On September 3, 2010, a powerful low pressure system and cold front sweeping across Lake Superior caused extensive wind damage at several locations along Lake Superior. Numerous large trees were knocked down in the Big Bay area. Some of the trees were up to 20 inches in diameter. Trees were also knocked in Presque Isle Park in Marquette. Strong winds knocked down numerous trees throughout Keweenaw County. Two campers in the Copper Harbor area sustained $10,000 in damage from downed trees. Wind gusts above 60 mph were consistently reported at the Ojibway RAWS station on Isle Royale during a five-hour period in the afternoon. Strong damaging winds estimated between 50 to 60 mph were reported throughout the evening hours in Copper Harbor. Wind gusts of 50 knots or greater were consistently reported during the late afternoon and evening hours at Stannard Rock in Lake Superior with a peak wind of 71 mph. Estimated wind gusts to 50 knots knocked trees down on power lines in Munising.
1993: On September 3, 1993, winds gusted to 63 mph at the Drummond Island Municipal Airport when a gusty severe thunderstorm wind blew across the Island in the early evening. No damage was reported. 
September 4
1886: On September 4, 1886, the wood schooner, 2-mast J.F. Tracy went aground in a gale on the west side of Beaver Island in Lake Michigan and was wrecked just offshore. She was considered unseaworthy and uninsurable and was abandoned as a total loss.
1895: On September 4, 1895, the wood schooner-barge, 2-mast Richard Winslow, while carrying iron ore, was in tow of steamer Inter-Ocean, when she sprang a leak during a gale and foundered at White Shoal Beaver Passage in Lake Michigan. Her crew was rescued by the tow steamer with great difficulty. Came to rest with her masts above water. Her cargo was recovered a couple years later by wrecking master Baker from Detroit and the boat flattened by explosives in 1902.
1916: On September 4, 1916, lightning struck a farmhouse in the Soo Township completely destroying the chimney, tore up sections of the roof, ceiling and floor with the downpour dousing the fire that broke out while a couple and their son slept. They weren't injured. A barn at Parkerville, MI was struck by lightning and 70 tons of hay and some farm implements destroyed with livestock saved by the farmer and his neighbors. 5.64 inches of rain fell the 3rd and 4th in Sault Ste Marie with a total of 5.83 inches in 31 hours which was a record for heavy rainfall in Sault Ste Marie that stood until 1974.
2010: On September 4, 2010, a strong area of low pressure went across eastern Lake Superior and produced some very strong winds across the eastern U.P. in the afternoon of the 3rd into the morning of the 4th. Stannard Rock gusted to 72 mph, Grand Marais to 64 mph, Munising to 54 mph and this caused record wind and waves on Lake Superior for the month of September of at least 17 feet in the eastern Lake Superior buoy. The ship, Indiana Harbor, was in the middle of the storm just west/north of Stannard Rock. The ship had some damage to equipment and deck rails due to: 100+ mph instantaneous winds between 6 pm and 11 pm. (Peak -- 144 mph) and blue water over the deck with frequent waves up to 25-30 feet.
2007: On September 4, 2007, severe thunderstorms produced damaging wind and large hail over portions of western Upper Michigan in the morning. Top half of an eight to ten-foot tall tree was knocked over with four-inch diameter branches on a few vehicles. A brief power outage occurred in Wakefield. 1-inch hail (quarter sized) fell 2 miles northeast of the Ontonagon Lighthouse in Lake Superior.
September 5
1933: On September 5, 1933, wildfires were under control in the western U.P. until a high wind developed and rekindled the flames.
1866: On September 5, 1866, the wood schooner Asia, while carrying 400-500 tons coal, was bound Erie, Pa. for Chicago, when she went on Spectacle reef in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron in a fog and big seas in a gale. Her crew abandoned in her yawl and made it to Mackinac Island. New and sturdy, it was expected she could be saved, but after about 1/3 of her cargo had been recovered, the vessel was abandoned in mid-October.
1904: On September 5, 1904, the wood schooner Swan, while carrying fruit, had sought shelter from a gale at Scott's Point, near the northern end of Lake Michigan and her captain had gone ashore for assistance. As the storm increased, his wife, daughter and the boat's one regular sailor fought to keep her afloat until they were rescued by fishermen the next day. 
September 6
1899: On September 6, 1899, rain fell in torrents from a severe thunderstorm which washed out a section of railroad bed between Rockland and Ontonagon. Train service was delayed until the next day. One woman was killed from lightning inside her home as she tried to seek shelter on a lower floor when she left her bedroom in Rockland.
1902: On September 6, 1902, a house was struck by lightning in Ontonagon and damaged the residence. The house did not catch fire and no one was injured or killed. The house filled with smoke and smelled like burning dynamite for a few hours after the strike.
1908: On September 6, 1908, the wood, bulk and package freight Charles Hurlbut, while carrying stamp sand, began to leak badly in a gale, and was run ashore to prevent her sinking near Vermillion Point, MI in Lake Superior. Her crew was taken off by lifesavers before she was pounded to pieces.
September 7
1898: On September 7, 1898, the wood schooner-barge Wenona was cast adrift in a storm from steamer Garden City and stranded near entrance to Portage Ship Canal in Lake Superior. She lay on the beach until wrecked by gale waves, in Sep, 1900. The skipper and his wife, her owners, stayed aboard for months in the hope she would be rescued, but she was finally abandoned in November.
2002: On September 7, 2002, record heat continued from the warm summer. WFO Marquette had a record high temperature of 91F.
1976: On September 7, 1976, the Seney wildfire was officially contained. This fire was the largest in Michigan since 1908 and burned 74,000 acres. Most of the loss from the fire was in the Seney Wildlife Refuge, 10,000 acres of state and private property were burned. Peat was burned to 6 feet down in the muck in the refuge.
1883: On September 7, 1883, the wood schooner Laura Bell, while carrying coal, encountered a gale on Lake Superior near Shot Point east of Marquette. She was stranded and became a total loss, breaking her back after resting for several days astride a large boulder. Hailed from Cleveland and bound for Marquette from there. After spending three days in her rigging, her crew were rescued by a tug from Marquette. One crew member lost their life.
1903: On September 7, 1903, the wood schooner R. Kanters was blown ashore in a gale, stranding about 7 miles south of Manistique, MI in Lake Michigan. Being quite advanced in age and lying in an exposed position on a rocky bottom, she was left to break up in place.
1887: On September 7, 1887, the wood schooner-barge, bulk freight Niagara, while carrying iron ore, slipped into the wave-troughs in a heavy gale, capsized and sank 3.5 miles off Vermillion Point in Lake Superior. Her iron ore, which was usually a very stable cargo, had shifted in the big waves. In the tow of steamer Australasia, she was reportedly overloaded by about 250 tons. The 9 or 10-member crew escaped the boat, but all perished when her lifeboat capsized.
September 8
2002: On September 8, 2002, record heat continued from the warm summer. WFO Marquette had a record high temperature of 91F and a warm record minimum temperature of 66F.
1933: On September 8, 1933, finally a steady rain occurred over the U.P. to aid the 1500 firefighters battling the fires. An estimated 30,000 acres were burned in Ontonagon and Gogebic Counties from the fires of 1933.
1860: On September 8, 1860, the wood side-wheel steamer, passenger and package freighter Gazelle was driven ashore near Eagle Harbor, MI, Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior and wrecked during a gale.
1980: On September 8, 1980, an F0 tornado touched down briefly 2.8 miles south southwest of L'Anse in the mid evening. Another F0 tornado touched down 10 miles south southwest of Republic in Marquette County that caused $300 worth of property damage in the mid evening.
1887: On September 8, 1887, the wood schooner-barge, 2-mast, bulk freight Anglo Saxon, while carrying posts and railroad ties, was driven ashore in a storm in the Straits of Mackinac, near Waugoschance Point in Lake Michigan with towmate J.A. Smith, a wood scow-schooner, 2-mast, which was carrying cedar posts, RR ties. They both broke up soon after. The two were bound Cockburn Island for Chicago in tow of the steamer Mattawan, and were left at anchor while the steamer coaled. Stripped and later broke up. The skipper of the J.A. Smith was killed by an unsecured steam pump during a salvage attempt and the hull burned to the waterline some years later.
1860: On 8 September 1860:  Loss of the Lady Elgin.  
From https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/thisday/index.asp?month=9&day=8&submit_form=Go

 On this date the steamship Lady Elgin was lost on Lake Michigan and was one of the lake's most tragic maritime disasters. The ship had been chartered by Milwaukee's Irish Union Guards who had been in Chicago attending a fund raiser in order to purchase weapons to arm their unit. Their ship was struck by an unlit lumber schooner and sank. At least 300 lives were lost, many from Milwaukee's Irish Third Ward community. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin's Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride, p. 17] Learn more 

Newspaper clipping from Milwaukee Sentinel
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Newspaper/BA9964

September 9
2002: On September 9, 2002, record heat continued from the warm summer. WFO Marquette had a record high temperature of 93F and a warm record minimum temperature of 66F. The 93F was the warmest high temperature recorded for the site in September dating back to 1961.
September 10
1907: On September 10, 1907, the wood schooner S.B. Paige, while carrying 30 cords of shingle bolts, was caught by a gale. She dropped anchor and attempted to ride it out. Her hook failed to hold and the schooner was blown in to shallow water off Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in the bay of Green Bay, where she was abandoned.
1996: On September 10, 1996, trees fell across power lines in the city of Menominee during strong winds from a thunderstorm in the early evening.
2007: On September 10, 2007, severe drought conditions carried over from August in Chippewa and Mackinac Counties in eastern Upper Michigan. Several rain events eased the drought by mid-month. The area received half an inch to an inch of rain on September 3-4, again on the 7th, and again on the 11th.
September 11
1900: On September 11, 1900, the wood scow-schooner Farrand H. Williams, while carrying cordwood, washed ashore in a storm in Horseshoe Bay, WI in the bay of Green Bay on the northwest side of the Door Peninsula and wrecked, a total loss.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1981: On September 11, 1981, golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) fell out of a severe thunderstorm 3.7 miles northwest of Schaffer at 1340 CST and 10 miles south of Bark River at 1430 CST.
1992: On September 11, 1992, record cold continues at WFO Marquette with a record low temperature of 30F.
2000: On September 11, 2000, trees were uprooted in the mid evening 6 miles east of Escanaba and trees up-rooted and power lines down in Quinnesec from a severe thunderstorm with gusts up to 75 mph. Lightning was also a factor in power outages in Dickinson County. A falling tree crushed a pick-up truck in Crystal Falls at 1845 EST causing $3000 in property damage. Several trees knocked down by wind in Stephenson at 1945 EST. 
September 12
1887: On September 12, 1887, the wood schooner David Provost, while carrying brick, foundered in a gale near Detour lighthouse, MI in Lake Huron and was a total loss. She was bound for Sault Ste Marie from Chatham, Ont. She was raised twice, but lost again each time and finally remained on the bottom.
1976: On September 12, 1976, the last gasp of the Seney fire occurred. Strong southerly winds fanned the smoldering fire back to life and with the winds, more fires started north of the Seney Stretch with firebrands. This flare-up was going on when the fire fighting operations were winding down and being dismantled. Two fires started in the Grand Sable State Forest. One was quickly put out. The other burned out of control and burned 5,000 acres that night. Two other fires were also simultaneously burning at the time with one near Ives Lake in the Huron Mountains and the other was near Hogsback Mountain northwest of Marquette with hundreds of people fighting this fire continuously. Final figures of the Seney fire were around 74,000 acres burned involving 112 square miles and 88 miles of control line. It cost $8 million to put the fire out in 1976.
2010: On September 12, 2010, a cluster of late-afternoon thunderstorms produced large hail in parts of Eastern Upper Michigan. Golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) fell in Raco and 1.5 inch hail (ping pong ball sized) fell 2 miles west of Dafter. 1 inch hail (quarter sized) fell 9.2 miles north northeast of Indian Lake. 2 inch hail (hen egg sized) fell 5 miles east northeast of Brimley in Izaak Walton Bay near the St. Mary's River.
2005: On September 12, 2005, a severe thunderstorm brought a large tree down blocking a road near Marion Lake 5 miles east of Watersmeet in the late afternoon.
2011: On September 12, 2011, a strong cold front moving through a moist unstable air mass produced severe thunderstorms over western Upper Michigan in the evening. A ten inch diameter tree was downed and power was out 2 miles east northeast of Baraga in the early evening. Hail of unknown size was also reported. $1000 in damage occurred. Wind gusts greater than 50 mph were measured for 20 minutes at Beacon Hill with a peak wind gust of 74 mph at 1904 EST with quarter sized hail (1 inch) reported at the same time. A 63 mph wind gust was measured at 1859 EST. Quarter-sized hail was measured as well. A 66 mph wind gust was measured at the Houghton County Airport ASOS. Large limbs were reported down in the Hubbell/Lake Linden area along with minor street flooding. Quarter and dime-sized hail were reported with the storm 1 mile west of Ontonagon. Winds were estimated up to 65 mph as well at 1852 EST. Several large branches were also reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds 2 miles northeast of Ontonagon at 1855 EST along with 1 inch hail (quarter sized). Golfball sized hail (1.75 inch) fell 6 miles north of Greenland at 1910 EST.
September 13
1890: On September 13, 1890, the wood schooner-barge Comrade, while carrying 1,650 tons of iron ore, was cast adrift from her tow steamer Columbia in a southeast or west southwest gale and foundered somewhere between Keweenaw and Isle Royale in Lake Superior on the west side of Portage Ship Canal, 10 miles off Misery Bay. All 8 crew members perished. Bound Ashland, WI for Cleveland with 1600 tons of ore, she was a total loss of $35,000. The steamer made it to shelter after a hard fight, later came out to find her charge, but to no avail.
1906: On September 13, 1906, the wood lumber schooner Fearless wrecked in a gale near Epoufette, MI in Lake Michigan.
1903: On September 13, 1903, the wood schooner-barge, bulk freight, 2-mast Moonlight, while carrying iron ore, was in tow of twin-stack steamer Volunteer. Moonlight broke her hawser and began to sink in a terrific gale. Volunteer took her crew off before she foundered off Michigan Island in the Apostle Islands, WI in Lake Superior.
2005: On September 13, 2005, a large tree was downed by wind at Foley Creek Campground 5 miles north northwest of St. Ignace at 2052 EST causing $1000 in damage. Thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front, and organized into a severe squall line as it crossed Lake Michigan. A 60 mph wind gust was reported 1 mile south of Pt Aux Chenes at 1952 EST in Lake Michigan. 64 mph wind gusts were reported 3 Miles East of Mackinaw City in the Strait of Mackinac in Lake Huron at 2059 EST and 1 mile north of Cheboygan at 2114 EST.
2011: On September 13, 2011, winds in the wake of a cold frontal passage gusted to 58 mph at Freda in the evening.
September 14
1867: On September 14, 1867, the wood schooner, 2-mast Wellington, while carrying 14,000 bushels of wheat, drove onto Skillagallee Reef in a gale in Lake Michigan and broke up while bound Chicago for Goderich. She had just been repaired at Chicago following a major leak a week before.
1886: On September 14, 1886, the wood schooner Flying Dutchman had a 'Note in bottle' found at St. Martin's Island, Oct 13, '86 read 'schooner Flying Dutchman wrecked on Lake Huron, September 14, 1886. All hands perish.' The note was considered a hoax because the vessel did not appear in Lloyd's Register, but this vessel disappeared from papers at about 1886. The ship sank somewhere in the Strait of Mackinac in a gale in Lake Huron with 3 crew members perishing.
1890: On September 14, 1890, the wood, packet (former tug) Lady Washington, while carrying general freight, struck bottom at Saul Choux Point, MI in Lake Michigan and sank in a northwest gale while on her usual run between St. Ignacio and Manistique, Michigan. Total loss of about $10,000. Saul Choux Point is often pronounced in Michigan as 'shoe-schwa,' called by sailors 'sole choice,' which is the name's literal translation from French. The lighthouse was completed on the point the following year.
September 15
1886: On September 15, 1886, the wood schooner F.J. King, while carrying 600 tons of iron ore, sprang a leak and sank in a heavy southeast gale while running for shelter, going down in 25 fathoms of water. Her crew escaped in the yawl. Bound Escanaba for Chicago, she was a total loss of about $7500. Her skipper gave her location as 'just east of Cana Island in 25 fathoms of water, ' which is 5 or 6 miles south of Rowley Bay, WI in Lake Michigan.
1915: On September 15, 1915, the iron, bulk freight Onoko, while carrying wheat, was bound Collingwood for Duluth, when she sprang a leak under her engine room. The flood of icy water caused her boiler to explode as she went down off Knife Island near Duluth in Lake Superior. She had probably sustained fatal but undetected damage in a storm a few days earlier. Largest vessel on the lakes when built in 1882, and the first purpose-built metal bulker, but she was considered to be very ugly of line. In the press she was called, variously, 'the worst looking sight on our inland seas,' 'far from beautiful,' and 'an eye-sore.'
See http://www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/onoko/onocac.php and
http://www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/onoko/onodwe.php
1969: On September 15, 1969, a severe thunderstorm dropped 2.5-inch hail (tennis ball sized) 4.2 miles west of Marenisco in the late afternoon. 
September 16
1955: On September 16, 1955, Marquette had a high temperature of 90F.
1892: On September 16, 1892, the wood, bulk freight Vienna, while carrying iron ore, was towing the barge Mattie C. Bell in fog, when she was rammed broadside by the wooden propeller Nipigon and went to bottom with a huge hole in her side at Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior. Nipigon took her in tow, but she went down in 60 fathoms of water an hour later. Had an octagonal pilothouse.
1901: On September 16, 1901, the steel, package freight Hudson, was carrying 22,500 bushels flaxseed and 69,000 bushels wheat. A ship was seen to have foundered 3 miles off shore in Lake Superior west of Eagle River, MI. It was three days before the loss was confirmed and the ship identified as the Hudson. Her cargo probably shifted in big seas [as flaxseed especially was prone to do] and she capsized and sank in a terrific gale. She had fore and aft tandem stacks and a green and grey paint job which made her one of the most recognizable boats on the Lakes. Outbound from Duluth. All 25 crew members perished.
1897: On September 16, 1897, the wood schooner-barge, bulk freight Henry A. Kent, while carrying 1,674 tons of iron ore, was driven down near Stannard Rock light in Lake Superior and foundered in a gale while bound Ashland, Wis. for Lake Erie. Her crew was rescued with difficulty just before she went down, by her tow steamer J.C. Gilchrist, which pulled up alongside in the gale and passed the crew and the captain's two children over on ropes. Newspapers later said the fact that she was grossly overloaded was the reason for her loss.
1912: On September 16, 1912, the steel, bulk freight Spokane was driven onto the rock pinnacle of Gull Rock off Manitou Island near the Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior by a gale and broke in two. Declared total loss, but later recovered and rebuilt, lasting until 1935. Reportedly the first steel ship to operate on Lake Superior. First steel-hulled bulker.
1972: On September 16, 1972, an F2 tornado touched down in the mid afternoon. It went across Forest and Marinette Counties, Wisconsin and then into Menominee County, MI. It skipped ESE from 4 miles WSW Wabeno, WI to 4 miles ESE of Ingalls, MI, a distance of 55 miles. The path was 200 yards wide. In Wisconsin, the tornado uprooted over 1000 trees and leveled barns. It unroofed homes south of Athelstane and north of Wausaukee. Between Wallace and Ingalls, MI, it damaged seven homes, destroyed barns, and killed 11 cattle. Two homes were called 'destroyed' by the press. Property damage in Menominee County was $250,000.
2006: On September 16, 2006, 1.25 inch hail (half dollar sized) fell for 5-10 minutes in Sagola in the mid evening out of a severe thunderstorm.
2004: On September 16, 2004, a potent low pressure system originating over the Central Plains moved across the west end of Lake Superior on the evening of the 15th. Strong west winds developed behind this system in the early morning hours. Sheriff's departments reported numerous trees and power lines down from this storm across Gogebic, Ontonagon, northern Houghton and Keweenaw Counties. The automated observing site at Houghton County Airport reported a wind gust to 54 mph while an estimated wind gust to 55 mph was reported by the Ontonagon County Road Commission.
September 17
1955: On September 17, 1955, Marquette had a high temperature of 90F.
2002: On September 17, 2002, WFO Marquette had a record high temperature of 82F.
1859: On September 17, 1859, the wood schooner Island Queen, while carrying wheat, struck Skillagalee reef in heavy seas and was run to the beach at Waugoschance Pt., western Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan at this point to save her. Apparently she later was pounded to pieces.
1881: On September 17, 1881, the wood schooner, 2-mast Jennibel, while carrying hemlock bark and green wood, was outbound from Egg Harbor, WI when she was struck by a southerly squall and capsized near Plum Island, Death's Door, WI in Lake Michigan. The tug Gregory rescued her crew shortly before the vessel went down, her cargo being unable to sustain buoyancy. 
September 18
1856: On September 18, 1856, wood brig, 2-mast Sandusky, while carrying grain, was bound Chicago for Buffalo, she sank with her masts emerging in a gale 5 miles and 280 degrees from Old Mackinac Pt. Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan. Her crew climbed up, but none of the several vessels who saw them were able to assist. She was a total loss of $18,000 and all 7 crew members perished. The wreck was located in 1985.
1884: On September 18, 1884, the wooden schooner Alaska, went aground in a gale on Bois Blanc Island, MI in the straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron and broke up.
1898: On September 18, 1898, the wood schooner-barge Mediator, while carrying lumber, was in tow of the steamer Kalkaska and bound Duluth for Chicago, she was torn loose in a gale and driven ashore south of Eagle River, MI in Lake Superior. Her tow mate J.H. Mead was also cast ashore, but was recovered. Crews made it to the beach on their own. Later removed from the beach and towed to Houghton, but too badly damaged to be returned to service. Her remains were later abandoned off the grounds of Michigan Technological University. In a seperate incident, the wood schooner South West, was carrying light and bound to Portage Lake for stone, she struck buttom in heavy waves, fog and smoke southeast of the Huron Islands in Lake Superior. Her crew abandoned in her yawl when she began to sink. The wreck has been known for a long time was only positively identified as South West by divers in 1995.
1869: On September 18, 1869, the wood schooner, 2-mast Nightingale, while carrying iron ore, struck what was later the site of Spectacle Reef light in a storm and foundered in the Straits of Mackinac on the Lake Huron side. Wreckage and cargo had to be removed in 1872 when the lighthouse was built. Tug Magnet did the work.
1871: On September 18, 1871, the wood schooner Dan. Tindall, while carrying 270,000 board feet of lumber, was bound Oconto, Wis. for Chicago when she went ashore in heavy weather on the north side of North Bay, Wisconsin in Lake Michigan and became a total loss.
1872: On September 18, 1872, the wood schooner Lydia Case, while carrying coal, was blown ashore at Pilot Island, WI in Lake Michigan in a northeast gale and became a total loss.
September 19
1895: On September 19, 1895, the steam barge Montana hit a southwest gale when they tried to enter the Portage Canal on the Keweenaw. The barge had trouble making the canal due to winds and waves and made it to the entrance piers before running aground, losing her rudder and shoe and damaging the hull. The ship sank to a depth of 16 feet and blocked the entrance and exit to the entry for a couple days. Strong winds in Calumet blew down a wall of one new home onto the house next to it causing considerable damage to both houses with no injuries. Heavy rain flooded streets in Hancock. A bridge across the Portage Canal linking Houghton and Hancock, had a portion of the sidewalk and railing blown off. A number of yachts broke from their moorings at the Onigaming club and drifted to Isle Royale.
1898: On September 19, 1898, the wood, package freighter Colorado, while carrying 1500 tons of flour, was blinded by forest fire smoke and went hard on Sawtooth Reef near Eagle River, MI in Lake Superior. Several tugs were sent from Duluth to assist her, but a gale hit the area on the 20th and another on the 23rd while she was still aground and she was pounded to matchwood. According to newspaper reports, the wreck lay right on top of the steamer James Pickands.
1898: On September 19, 1898, the wood, bulk freight 'lumber hooker' Keystone, while carrying 1,002 tons of coal, was bound Cleveland for Manitowoc, Wisconsin, when she stranded on Big Summer Island, MI in Lake Michigan in a northwest gale and the next day burned to the waterline. Oddly, she was insured for fire damage, but not against going ashore.
1903: On September 19, 1903, the wood, bulk freight A.A. Parker, while carrying iron ore, sprang a leak in a heavy gale. Lifesaving Service answered her distress signals and rescued 18 crew and 2 dogs just before she went down. She sank in 120 feet of water in Lake Superior. The wreck was located off Grand Marais, MI in the summer of 2001.
2007: On September 19, 2007, a low pressure system moving across Lake Superior produced gusty winds to 58 mph at the Grand Marais break wall in the late morning.
2005: On September 19, 2005, severe thunderstorms brought trees down on a power line near Smoky Lake 14 miles west of Iron River in the early afternoon causing $1000 in damage. A wind gust to 59 mph with four-inch diameter tree branches down on Highway M-189 happened 3 miles south of Iron River.
2003: On September 19, 2003, a deep surface low pressure system tracked from the northern plains across western Lake Superior. High winds developed over the Keweenaw Peninsula and over Lake Superior, as the low deepened and moved into Ontario. West winds gusted as high as 57 mph at Houghton, and the Stannard Rock lighthouse measured a sustained wind of 53 knots, or 61 mph, during the early evening. Broken trees and branches knocked down power lines with power outages lasting into the night in several communities.
September 20
1956: On September 20, 1956, Sault Ste Marie, MI recorded 2.7 inches of snow, the largest snowfall for September recorded at the station.
1907: On September 20, 1907, the wood, bulk freight Alex. Nimick, while carrying coal, pressed on for Duluth in a gale after sheltering behind Whitefish Pt. for a day, then was driven on a bar 13 miles west of Vermilion Pt. near the mouth of the Two-Hearted River on Lake Superior. The 11 survivors out of the 17 aboard made it to shore in a lifeboat. Vessel pounded to pieces in 26 feet of water.
September 21
1844: On September 21, 1844, the wood brig trading and fishing boat, John Jacob Astor sank in a Lake Superior gale by hitting a reef. It was carrying furs and trade goods. Owned by Astor's American Fur Company, reportedly the 1st commercial vessel on Lake Superior. She struck a reef and foundered near Copper Harbor on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Wreckage was still visible in the early 1860's. First documented shipwreck on Lake Superior.
1874: On September 21, 1874, the wood bark, 3-mast Monarch, while carrying coal, became unmanageable during a gale and went on the rocks near Detour, MI in Lake Huron where she sank and was a $15,000 loss.
1869: On September 21, 1869, the wood bark, 3-mast Nucleus, while carrying iron ore, was downbound when she sprung a leak and sank in a storm off Whitefish Point in Lake Superior.
1899: On September 21, 1899, the wood scow-schooner White Foam, while carrying lumber, foundered off Bois Blanc Island in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron in a storm.
1909: On September 21, 1909, the composite, bulk freight Samoa, while carrying copper sand, was attempting to shelter from a thunderstorm in the lake, she was struck by lightning, caught fire and burned to the waterline and sank in Torch Lake, Portage ship canal in Lake Superior in the Keweenaw.
2007: On September 21, 2007, severe thunderstorms produced damaging wind and large hail over western Upper Michigan. A 70-mph wind gust was measured at the Ironwood AWOS in the late afternoon with several trees down at Watersmeet. Several trees were blown down 10 miles northwest of Iron River at 1650 CST. Several trees down along Highway M-107 4 miles west of Silver City at 1745 EST. Tree limbs down 2 miles east of Ewen at 1827 EST. Several 100-foot tall trees were knocked down 2 miles northwest of Twin Lakes at 1827 EST causing $3000 in property damage and fallen tree limbs knocked down power lines at 1833 EST 1 mile south of Twin Lakes causing $2000 in property damage. Five nine-inch diameter trees were blown down in Jacobsville at 1850 EST causing $1000 in property damage.
2010: On September 21, 2010, a Northern Plains low pressure system and associated cold front triggered isolated severe thunderstorms over Gogebic and Houghton in the morning. The Gogebic County Sheriff reported widespread trees and power lines down across Ironwood. A spotter also reported 12-inch diameter branches down on McLeod Avenue. $5000 in property damage was done.
September 22
1856: On September 22, 1856, the wood schooner, 2-mast J.E. Shaw, while carrying wheat, was bound Milwaukee for Oswego in a gale, when she slipped in behind St. Helena Island in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan for shelter and was driven ashore, a total loss of $30,000.
1995: On September 22, 1995, over 6 inches of snow fell in Ironwood, MI.
1974: On September 22, 1974, 4.4 inches of snow fell in Marquette. At WFO Marquette NWS office, a record daily snowfall of 1.4 inches occurred.
1895: On September 22, 1895, a southwest gale on Lake Michigan and the bay of Green Bay sank the schooner E.R. Williams near the St. Martin Islands. The eight-member crew abandoned her in their yawl, and were picked up the next day off Summer Island with no loss of life. She was carrying iron ore. Bound Escanaba for Toledo in tow of steamer Santa Maria. Her lights just disappeared to her tow steamer. Her crew abandoned in the yawl and spent a harrowing night on the open lake. Later they were picked off Summer Island by the steamer Osceola. The next day the wreck of the Williams was located off St. Martin Island by her masts sticking up above the surface.
1942: On September 22, 1942, the steel, pulpwood barge, City of St. Joseph, while carrying pulpwood, was in tow of tug John Roen with the iron barge, pulpwood, crane-equipped barge Transport, was cut loose in a gale and driven ashore near Eagle Harbor in the Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake Superior, a total loss. One person lost their life. Remains of the Transport and the City of St. Joseph were largely cut up in place for scrap the following winter. As a steamer, the City of St. Joseph was one of first lakers to carry a wireless. The Transport was built as a 21-car sidewheel carferry, converted to barge in 1933.
1868: On September 22, 1868, the wood brig, 2-mast Sam Hale, while carrying lumber, was bound for Chicago, when she struck Whaleback Shoal off of Cedar River, MI in the bay of Green Bay during a gale. Most of her crew made it to shore, but two sailors left behind were aboard when the vessel broke up a few hours later. Both clung to floating wreckage and were picked up by passing vessels after a long drift.
1893: On September 22, 1893, the wood barge, pulpwood Michigan, while carrying iron ore, was bound Marquette for Ashtabula, in tow of the steamer City Of Naples. She sprang a leak in heavy seas during a gale and sank just east of Pt. Sable, off Grand Sable Dunes in Lake Superior before she could be towed to shore. Her crew was taken off 1 hour before she sank, by the Naples.
1894: On September 22, 1894, the wood, bulk freight James Pickands, while carrying iron ore, was blinded by forest fire smoke and struck the deadly reef of Sawtooth Reef in Lake Superior near Eagle River, MI. She was later wrecked by a storm and still another storm pushed her off into deeper water. The ship had been bound Duluth for South Chicago.
See entry for date in  http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
September 23
1895: On September 23, 1895, the schooner A.W. Comstock, while carrying wheat, sank off of Stannard Rock as it was being towed by the steamer Viking. The Viking released her and the Comstock was tossed about in the southwest gale for six hours forcing the crew to abandon her in lifeboats. The steamer J.J. McWilliams tried to reach her, but the Comstock sank in about 400 feet of water before the McWilliams got there. The McWilliams did manage to rescue the Comstock's crew. Winds in the gale were estimated at 70 mph.
1895: On September 23, 1895, the wood schooner, 3-mast C.H. Johnson, while carrying stone blocks, was loaded with feldspar blocks at Jacobsville, MI and bound for Chicago, when she was sheltering from a southwest gale behind St. Helena Island near Gros Cap, MI, Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan. Her anchor chains broke and she was driven onto the rocks, where she broke up quickly. The crew was rescued by a local fisherman who answered her distress signal. In a separate incident, the wood schooner, 3-mast Queen City, while carrying coal, was driven on the Hog Island Reef, NE of St. James, Beaver Island in Lake Michigan during a gale and sank, her crew escaping to the rigging. Beaver Island lifesavers rescued them the following day after a great struggle. She had been sheltering when lost. The wreck was reportedly stripped by 'pirates' from Beaver Island. In another incident, the wood schooner Skylark, while carrying lumber, went ashore in a heavy gale and was wrecked at Naubinway, MI in Lake Michigan. She was stripped and abandoned soon after.
2010: On September 23, 2010, two days of heavy rain produced localized flooding in Eastern Upper Michigan. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 5 inches were common, most of which fell on the night of the 23rd. Raber picked up 4.75 inches of rain, Cedarville 4.10 inches, and St Ignace 3.40 inches. A deep low pressure system over the Plains pushed a warm front north toward Upper Michigan. Heavy rain developed over portions of west and central Upper Michigan in a very moist airmass ahead of the warm front. As a result of the heavy rain, a road washed out in the Iron Mountain area and the Sturgeon River overflowed in Baraga County. The Dickinson County Sheriff reported Pine Mountain Road in Iron Mountain washed out with water over the road. 
September 24
1884: On September 24, 1884, the wood schooner Golden Rule capsized off Ontonagon in Lake Superior and reported foundered in a gale. Out of Ashland. The two crew members drown.
2010: On September 24, 2010, a deep low pressure system over the Plains pushed a warm front north toward Upper Michigan on the 23rd. Heavy rain developed over portions of west and central Upper Michigan on the 23rd in a very moist airmass ahead of the warm front. The Pine River near Rudyard crested near 18 feet at midday in Chippewa County. Flood stage was 17 feet. The river reached the bottom of the Prairie Road Bridge deck. This came after heavy rainfall the previous day. A large culvert washed out, rendering East Lake Road impassable just north of Moran. A pick-up truck fell into the washed-out section, which the driver did not see just after rounding a corner. $18,000 in damage was caused. The Sturgeon River overflowed at Halonen Road seven miles northwest of Baraga. The water was estimated to be one foot deep over the road. As a result of the heavy rain, a road washed out in the Iron Mountain area and the Sturgeon River overflowed in Baraga County. Gusty west winds in the wake of a cold frontal system knocked down trees in Menominee and near Copper Harbor on the afternoon of the 24th. Two large trees were reported down along M-26 and Brockway Mountain Drive near Copper Harbor. The Keweenaw County road commission had to remove the trees.
1937: On September 24, 1937, the steel, bulk freight sandsucker Neebing, while carrying gravel, filled and sank in a gale 800 yards off Eagle's Nest Point, Nipigon Strait in Lake Superior while towing the barge Coteau. She had been bound Paradise Island for Red Rock, Ontario. 5 of the 14-member crew perished.
See the entry for 23 Sep 1937 at http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
September 25
1873: On September 25, 1873, the wood, bulk freight Union, while carrying iron ore, was blown into the shallows near Au Sable Point in Lake Superior by a westerly gale. Later pounded to pieces. Out of Green Bay. Engine recovered in 1874, boiler recovered in 1875. At the time of her loss there were 16 lakes vessels with this name, causing some confusion.
1894: On September 25, 1894, the wood schooner William Home, while carrying 579 tons of pig iron, was in tow of steamer F.R. Buell with two others and bound Manistique, Michigan for Buffalo, when she was overwhelmed by a southeast gale and foundered 3 miles off Seul Choix Point, western Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan, in 90 feet of water. 6 of the 7 crew members perished.
1876: On September 25, 1876, the wood schooner G.R. Roberts was unable to hold her anchors against a northwest gale and was driven ashore in Sister Bay in the bay of Green Bay and was a total loss.
1878: On September 25, 1878, the wood schooner Maid of the Mist was driven ashore and wrecked in a storm at Ninemile Point, MI in Lake Huron. The total value of the vessel and cargo was about $800. She had even been condemned a short time before the loss.
1851: On September 25, 1851, the wood side-wheel steamer, passenger and package freight Monticello, while carrying merchandise, copper and passengers, began to leak when midway between Ontonagon and Eagle Harbor, MI, and was run to shallow water, where she sank and later broke up off the Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior. She had had a collision with the steamer Manhattan earlier in the year, but no damage was found. It is suspected that her hull was weakened by the collision and this caused it to fail in the storm. The boats were two of only four steamers on Lake Superior at the time of their collision. Her engine was probably recovered. Hauled around the Soo rapids on skids the previous winter.
September 26
1872: On September 26, 1872, the wood scow-schooner, 2-mast You Tell, while carrying hay, was bound Thunder Bay, Ont., for Ashland, WI, when she struck a shoal near Washington Island, Isle Royale in Lake Superior in a storm and foundered.
1894: On September 26, 1894, the wooden schooner Ada sank at Manistique. She was overwhelmed and cast on the beach east of the Manistique breakwater in a strong gale, but both of her crewmen were rescued. Another wood schooner, built as unrigged scow L. May Guthrie, while carrying bark, grounded and was lost in a severe gale at Fisherman Shoal, WI in Lake Michigan, but her crew of 5 was rescued.
2008: On September 26, 2008, a cold front produced strong to severe thunderstorms across western Lake Superior. Several storms produced high winds. A 59-mph wind gust was reported at Port Wing, WI on Lake Superior.
September 27
1912: On September 27, 1912, the wood, bulk freighter Culligan, while carrying iron ore, was holding her own against a strong gale in Lake Superior until her pumps failed, the rising water dousing her fires and allowing her to fill. Crew abandoned her in her lifeboats. Sank several miles northwest of Grand Island, near Munising, MI in Lake Superior.
1861: On September 27, 1861, the wood ship Minnesota, while carrying corn, 'broke her arches,' sprang a leak and was put on Summer Island, MI in the bay of Green Bay to keep her from sinking. The prevailing gale soon tore her to pieces, a total loss.
1908: On September 27, 1908, the wood, bulk freight Neshoto, while carrying iron ore, was bound Superior, WI, for Buffalo and blinded by forest fire smoke, she drove ashore near Crisp Point in Lake Superior. Not severely damaged, but destroyed by a later storm before she could be removed.
September 28
1895: On September 28, 1895, the wood schooner-barge, 2-mast Richard J. Carney, while carrying lumber, was stranded and pounded to pieces near Shelldrake dock, where she had been loading lumber. Caught by a gale, she was driven ashore, along with her tow steamer Nellie Torrent near Shelldrake, MI, Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior. A separate incident also occurred this day. A wood schooner-barge, 2-mast Elma, while carrying lumber, was in tow of the steamer P.H. Birckhead with 2 other barges. The tow was broken up during a gale, and soon after Elma's steering was disabled and she was cast ashore under Miner's Castle at Pictured Rocks near Munising, MI in Lake Superior. One crewman died trying to take a rope ashore. Another finally made it and sat shivering all night on the rocks, holding on to the rescue line. The rest of her crew came ashore in the morning.
See entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
September 29
1869: On September 29, 1869, the wood scow-schooner, 2-mast Sunshine, while carrying lumber, was bound White Lake, Mich, for Chicago, when she was struck by a southwest gale and was beached at north point of North Bay, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan to save her. Mostly destroyed by December.
1993: On September 29, 1993, 2 inches of wet, heavy snow fell in the higher elevations around Marquette. NWS Marquette reported 1.7 inches of daily record snowfall.
1880: On September 29, 1880, the sail yacht, in use as camp supply vessel Starlight, while carrying lumber camp supplies, went missing in a gale off Au Train in Lake Superior. All 5 crew members perished.
1881: On September 29, 1881, 5.5 inches of rain fell in Marquette, the greatest one day total ever recorded there flooding sidewalks and cellars. In Ishpeming, Partridge Creek flooded a large part of town with alleys and backyards under 4 feet of water and area mines flooded.
1898: On September 29, 1898, the wooden schooner, Active, departed Sister Bay, WI for Ford River, MI. She went ashore near the pier of Ford River in a gale when her captain mistook the lights of a home for the pier light. She piled ashore 2 miles south of the pier, where she later went to pieces. She was carrying 40 tons of hay.
1888: On September 29, 1888, the schooner, wood, 3-mast, bulk freighter Brandon, while carrying 1000 tons of railroad rails, was in tow of tug James A. Walker with schooners Jennie and Regina. Sprang a leak and foundered 40 miles southwest of Isle Royale during a gale in Lake Superior. Brand new at the time. The question was later raised as to whether she was overladen.
1891: On September 29, 1891, the wood fish tug Bertha Endress was bound Soo, Ont. for Michipicoten Island with machinery for the mine there. She sank in a gale in Lake Superior in Whitefish Bay off Pt. Iroquois. The sons of two of the owners of the Michipicoten Mine were among the lost. All 5 crew members perished. Further down on Lake Superior, the wood schooner-barge, bulk freight Frank Perew, while carrying coal, broke away from the tow of N.K. Fairbank and foundered when the gale stove in her hatches and filled her. Her crew abandoned in the yawl and rowed 13 miles to the east, but their boat capsized in the surf at Parisienne Island drowning all but 1 of the 7 crew members. Sinking of the Perew was seen from a distance by the steamer John W. Moore, which rushed to her aid, only to find her sunk when she arrived at the site off Vermilion Pt. in Lake Superior.
1895: On September 29, 1895, the wood freighter Charles J. Kershaw was bound for Marquette, when she burst a steam pipe in a strong southwest gale and drifted into Chocolay Reef, near Marquette, MI, in Lake Superior where she was pounded to pieces and was a total loss. Her two barges, Henry A. Kent and Moonlight went up on the beach so high that one could walk around them without getting one's feet wet. Both were recovered the next year. U.S. Lifesavers took Kershaw's crew off.
1898: On September 29, 1898, the wood, bulk freight Toledo, while carrying 475,000 board feet lumber, was downbound with barge Shawnee in tow, when she sprang a leak in a gale and began to founder. Kept afloat by her cargo, she was towed into Portage harbor and sank off the upper entrance to Portage Ship Canal in Lake Superior. She partially blocked the lower end of the canal and was later dynamited as a navigational hazard.
2011: On September 29, 2011, a powerful early fall storm affected much of Upper Michigan with its effects lingering into the 30th. Strong winds and heavy rain were associated with this system, causing tree damage and power outages across Upper Michigan. In some areas, the power was still out through October 2nd. The strong nature of the winds was due to a combination of a rapidly strengthening low pressure system moving out of northern Minnesota and a strong high pressure system across the northern Great Plains and southern Canada. As the storm moved east throughout the day, light southerly to westerly winds quickly changed to very strong northerly winds at many locations. This system was a heavy rain producer for a majority of the U.P., with rainfall totals greater than 1' central and east. The greatest totals were recorded in Marquette and Alger counties near Lake Superior, where over 2' was common. At the NWS office in Negaunee Township, the 2.90' recorded for 9/29/2011 was the 5th highest daily precipitation total since weather records begin in 1961 and was also a record daily precipitation for this date. The Alger County Sheriff reported numerous trees down across roads and power lines across the county. Several of the trees were greater than 12 inches in diameter. Several trees were reported down in the Escanaba and Gladstone area as tree branches fell across roads and power lines. Over 100 customers in rural Escanaba and Gladstone were without power into the evening of the 30th. Numerous trees were down and power knocked out in Ironwood and the west end of Lake Gogebic. The top of a pine tree was also snapped off in Wakefield. Several trees were knocked down and hundreds were without power across Houghton County into the morning of the 30th. The Keweenaw County Sheriff reported multiple large trees down across roads throughout Keweenaw County. Power was out in Copper Harbor from 1545-2115 EDT. Strong north winds from the storm knocked down numerous large trees across roads and power lines and caused widespread power outages across Marquette County from the evening of the 29th into the morning of the 30th. Thousands of residences in Marquette, Harvey, Skandia, Negaunee, Ishpeming and Gwinn were without power from the evening of the 29th into the 30th. Some customers were without power for several days. The most extensive and widespread tree damage observed was on Partridge Bay Trail off of County Road 550 just northwest of Marquette where hundreds of one to two-foot diameter oak and quaking aspen trees were toppled across the road. Heavy rain accompanying the storm also caused ponding of water on city streets. In addition...bricks blown off the Pioneer Square Building in Ishpeming caused extensive damage to a pickup truck. $70,000 in damage was caused by the weather. An awning was blown off of a business on Highway US-45 in Rockland. Several trees were reported down in the Manistique area. A rapidly deepening low pressure system moving through the Upper Great Lakes resulted in north storm force wind gusts across much of Lake Superior in the evening. A 58 mph wind gust was measured at the Rock of Ages C-Man station and at the Grand Traverse Bay GLOS site. A 69 mph wind gust was measured at the Stannard Rock C-MAN station. 64 mph gusts were measured at the Big Bay GLOS site and a spotter measured a 64 mph wind gust on a hand-held anemometer at the pavilion on Presque Isle in Marquette. A 59 mph wind gust was measured at the Grand Marais GLOS site. High winds developed over the waters of Green Bay when an area of low pressure intensified as it passed northeast of Wisconsin. Some of the highest measured wind gusts near the waters of Green Bay included 60 knots at Yacht Works Marina in Sister Bay, 59 knots at Chambers Island, and 52 knots at Door County Cherryland Airport in Sturgeon Bay. High winds over the waters of Green Bay slammed boats against docks, sinking a boat in Egg Harbor and grounding another at Ephraim causing $10,000 in damage.
September 30
1881: On September 30, 1881, the month ended up with 12.73 inches of rain in Marquette, wettest month on record.
2002: On September 30, 2002, record warmth continued. The low temperature at WFO Marquette was 58F, the warmest low for this date since 1961. Later on, severe weather occurred. An F1 tornado went through Iron Mountain. It developed near the Menominee River. The storm affected Kingsford, Iron Mountain, Quinessec, Breitung Township and Norway. Multiple bands of damage resulted from the tornado and straight-line winds. Widespread destruction occurred along the system's 8 mile path with $7 million worth of damage. Roofs of several businesses and homes were torn off and numerous garages and sheds were destroyed. Downed trees and toppled and snapped power poles caused problems with up to 15,000 residents losing power and about 10,000 homes still did not have power into October 1st. This storm ended up spawning 3 tornadoes out of it with the first starting at 1811 CST in the Iron Mountain Kingsford area with a damage path of 4.5 miles and 200 yards wide, the second one was at 1819 CST in Quinnessec, and the last at 1825 CST near Norway. The first tornado was the strongest with the other two being F0. The second tornado had damage limited to minor roof damage (lifted shingles) in Quinnesec, trees downed and numerous branches broken with a damage path of 2 miles long and 100 yards wide. The 3rd tornado touched down approximately 5 miles northeast of Norway, crossing the Norway Truck Trail Road before dissipating 1/4 mile east of the road crossing which was 0.8 mile long and 100 yards wide. Damage was limited to downed trees and broken branches. A foot of water was reported over highway US-2 from torrential rain in Iron Mountain and two feet of water was reported over Highway US-2 in Quinnesec. Golf ball sized hail (1.75 inch) was reported in Covington, MI. A 10 inch diameter tree was blown down 3 miles east of La Branch at 1958 EST. On Sep 30, a short wave moving from the plains into south central Canada brought a warm front into Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Scattered thunderstorms developed along the front, with several of these storms becoming severe. One supercell that originally developed in an area of higher shear over northern Wisconsin produced three tornadoes and extensive downburst wind damage in southern Dickinson County when it encountered an outflow boundary from earlier convection. The majority of damage to the Iron Mountain, Kingsford and Quinnesec areas was caused by downburst winds, which knocked trees into homes, downed power lines, etc. The most significant damage was produced by the tornado that moved through Kingsford and Iron Mountain. This led to colder weather which produced the coldest October on record at WFO Marquette.
1871: On September 30, 1871, the wood freighter Free State, while carrying oats, wheat, flour and broom corn, ran aground in shallows at Gray's Reef, 10 miles west of Waugoschance Point in Lake Michigan and wrecked in heavy fog. At first it seemed like she was in no danger, but as wreckers were preparing to come to her aid three days later, word came that she had broken up.
2003: On September 30, 2003, two waterspouts were sighted just northeast of the North Light on Grand Island at 1015 EST. These waterspouts were formed by very cold air flowing over the relatively warmer waters of central Lake Superior. 
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Above from MQT Today in 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.
September 1
1989: Waucoma, IA (4.91") rain.
1969: Caledonia, MN (3.22") rain.
1953: Platteville, WI (100, hottest September temperature).
1931: Prairie du Chien, WI (3.04") rain.
1913: Grand Meadow, MN (100, hottest September temperature).
1897: Postville, IA (3.12") rain.
September 2
2011: During the early morning hours, a thunderstorm complex moved from northern IA into western WI and eventually continued into the Green Bay, WI area. The storms produced wind gusts from 40-55 mph, but certain pockets of storms reached 65-70 mph. Most of the wind damage was to trees with collateral damage to power lines, homes, and cars. Locally, no reports of injuries were received but many people were without power.
2002: A tornado touched down about a mile northwest of Gilman, WI and moved southeast into the village a couple minutes later. A few trees and homes were lightly damaged before the tornado hit the Gilman school. The roof was blown off the school gymnasium, where the high school football team had been seeking cover a minute before moving into the hallways and interior rooms. Debris was blown from the school onto the nearby football field and into homes east of Gilman. The tornado kept tracking southeast into the Chequamegon National Forest, producing occasional house damage and knocking down hundreds of trees. The worst damage was found near the end of the path, along Sawyer Ave. west of Medford, WI where the top of a two story house was sheared off. There were no reports of deaths or injuries. This was the first confirmed tornado in Taylor County, WI since 1977. This was the same day as the Ladysmith Tornado.
1966: Theilman, MN (3.1") rain.
1964: In WI: Jump River (4.74", wettest September day), Curtiss (4.70", wettest day on record), Owen (4.02"), Medford (3.95").
1961: An F2 tornado occurred during the late evening in Howard County, IA.
1898: Medford, WI (99, warmest September temperature).
September 3
1964: An F2 tornado moved east through Richland County, WI affecting the communities of Excelsior, Richmond, Eagle, Orion, and Sextonville. It destroyed all barns on two farms. Only the houses were left standing. Four people were injured.
1961: A weak tornado touched down briefly 5 miles west of Thorp, WI. This was the second of a family of four small tornadoes which touched down briefly between Glenwood and Athens.
1941: An F2 tornado formed east of Millville, IA and lifted Mississippi River water 60 feet in the air when crossing into Wisconsin. It caused an injury in Grant County, WI. 
September 4
2012: Severe storms developed this day, producing hail over 2" inches in diameter, localized wind gusts 60 to 75 mph, heavy rain, and an EF2 tornado near Bloomington, WI. This short-lived tornado damaged a barn, house and trees. Despite rainfall in excess of 3-4" at some locations, there was little flooding as a dry summer allows grounds to soak up much of the rain. Rainfall in IA: Littleport (4.20"), Elkader (3.52"), Guttenberg (2.91"), Postville(2.91"), Monona (2.30"), Garber (2.16"), Calmar (2.08"). In WI: Rockville (3.62"), Desoto (2.60"), Platteville (2.60"), Burton (2.42"), Lancaster (2.41"), Prairie du Chien (2.30").
1968: Preston, MN (3.28") rain.
1941: Neillsville, WI (3") rain.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1939: Mauston, WI (3") rain.
1921: Hillsboro, WI (3") rain.
September 5
1985: Thunderstorms producing wind gusts up to 85 mph were reported in Fayette County, IA. Osage, IA (4.39"), Waukon, IA (3.76", wettest September day), and Decorah, IA (3.2") rain.
1946: Austin, MN (3.72") and Rochester, MN (2.39") rain. 
1938: A streak of 10 consecutive days with measurable rainfall for La Crosse, WI began on this day in 1938. The streak ran through September 14th, with a total of 6.89" falling during the period. Osage, IA (4.03") rain.
1913: Osage, IA (101, hottest September temperature).
September 6
2001: An F1 tornado touched down near the Fayette-Buchanan County line southwest of Arlington, IA. It then skipped along for 6 miles before lifting near the community of Taylorsville, IA. The storm damaged a school near the intersection of Highways 187 and 3 southwest of Arlington. A dairy barn was also damaged just north of Arlington. There were no injuries reported.
1992: Cresco, IA (3.16") rain.
1946: Rainfall totals for this day ranged from: In MN: Grand Meadow (4.37", wettest September day), Austin (3.02"). In WI: Viroqua (4", wettest September day), Genoa (3.37", wettest September day), Blair (3.11"), Hillsboro (3.03"). In IA: Cresco (4.1"), Decorah (4.08").
1939: Charles City, IA (100, latest occurrence of 100 in a year and their hottest September temperature).
1938: Charles City, IA (3.15"), Postville, IA (3.07"), and La Crosse, WI (2.51") rain.
1936: Several homes were damaged as an east moving F2 tornado hit the southwest edge of Rockford, IA. Damage estimates totaled $15, 000.
1925: Hillsboro, WI (3.25") rain.
1922: Winona, MN (102), La Crosse, WI (101), and Hatfield, WI (100) recorded their hottest September temperature.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
See also entries for following day at both sites.
1913: Rochester, MN (100, latest occurrence of 100 in a year and their hottest September temperature). 
September 7
2001: A mobile home was hit by a tornado between Cataract and Angelo, WI (Monroe County) along County Road Q. It completely demolished the structure and tossed it about 30 feet. A woman was in the mobile home when the storm hit and she managed to crawl out in spite of sustaining minor injuries. Elsewhere across southwest Wisconsin, thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines. The thunderstorms also produced just over 3" of rain in Goodrich, WI (3.14").
1989: Oelwein, IA (7.19", wettest day on record).
1980: Rainfall amounts totaled: In WI: Alma (3.37"), Dodge (3.12"), La Crosse (2.12").In MN: La Crescent (3.31"), Lake City (3.26"), Hokah (3.25").
1978: Mondovi, WI (100), Dodge, WI (99), Theilman, MN (99), Trempealeau, WI (98), and Alma, WI (97) recorded their warmest September temperature.
1976: Jump River, WI (95, warmest September temperature).
1964: Rochester, MN (2.39") rain.
1939: Prairie du Chien (104, tied Richland Center, WI (104 on 9/10/1908) for hottest September temperature in WI), New Hampton, IA (101), and Lancaster, WI (100) recorded their hottest September temperatures.
(Prairie du Chien record checks with entry on 
http://www.aos.wisc.edu/%7Esco/clim-history/state/wihitemp.html  
Should also enter Richland Center temp.)
1922: Fayette, IA (101) and Mather, WI (101) had their hottest September temperature.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1916: Decorah, IA (3.2") rain.
September 8
1978: Necedah, WI (98, warmest September temperature).
1976: Owen, WI (94, warmest September temperature).
1964: Neillsville, WI (4.04"), Blair, WI (3.78"), Charles City, IA (3.78"), Minnesota City, MN (3.17"), Wabasha, MN (3.12"), and Alma, WI (3") rain.
1941: Oelwein, IA (4.25"), Richland Center, WI (3.54"), Lancaster, WI (3.4"), and Platteville, WI (3.28", wettest September day) rain.
1939: Viroqua, WI (99, warmest September temperature).
1938: Mondovi, WI (3.3") rain.
September 9
1990: An F1 tornado touched down initially in Nelson, WI where a bulk of the damage and a lone injury occurred. An estimated $1, 000, 000 in damage occurred in the Nelson area as 95% of the town was affected. Thirty homes and 31 mobile homes were destroyed, 24 homes and businesses received major damage. The tornado skipped along a 30-mile-path causing barn damage near Waumandee, WI. It produced $600, 000 damage to sheds and agriculture buildings in Trempealeau County, WI along with extensive crop damage. Also, baseball sized hail (2.75") fell in Clark County, WI.
1978: Hillsboro, WI (96, warmest September temperature).
1971: Two F1 tornadoes touched down during the afternoon in Grant County, WI.
1970: An F2 tornado touched down initially in Butler County, IA and moved into Floyd County, IA. It moved a pickup truck 300 ft and destroying many barns. Another F2 tornado moved northeast across Grant and Lafayette Counties in southwest Wisconsin from just east of Tennyson to just northwest of Leslie. Ten homes and a church were destroyed or severely damaged in Platteville. A trailer was destroyed and some homes were unroofed. Finally, an F1 tornado moved across Grant County, WI from the Dubuque, IA area to just east of Dickeyville, WI. It caused no injuries or deaths.
1965: Barns were destroyed and a car was moved 200 ft by an F2 tornado near Lime Springs, IA.
1955: The following locations recorded their warmest September temperature: In IA: Elkader (102), Decorah (100), Oelwein (99), Cresco (98), Guttenberg (98), Waukon (96). In MN: Preston (98), Austin (97). In WI: Mauston (99), Blair (98), Lynxville (96), Sparta (96), Genoa (95).
1938: Medford, WI (4.27") rain.
1929: Prairie du Chien, WI (3.86"), Cuba City, WI (3.68", wettest September day), and Richland Center, WI (3.51") rain.
1927: Richland Center, WI (4.04") rain.
September 10
1994: Hillsboro, WI (3.37", wettest September day).
1986: Ontario, WI (3.5", wettest September day) and Rochester, MN (3.04") rain.
See entry for day in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1938: Rochester, MN (3.11") rain.
1919: Decorah, IA (3.71") and Prairie du Chien, WI (3.54") rain.
1908: Richland Center, WI (104, ties Prairie du Chien, WI (9/7/1939) for hottest September temperature in WI). 
September 11
1986: Mauston, WI (3.83", wettest September day) and Waukon, IA (3.21") rain.
1976: Jump River, WI had a high temperature of 84 degrees and a low temperature of 27 degrees. This 57-Fahrenheit degree difference between the high and low temperature tied 2/13/1971 and 3/14/1975 for Jump Rivers' greatest diurnal temperature change.
1975: Mondovi, WI (3.63") rain.
1903: Wabasha, MN (3.72") rain.
1899: Medford, WI (30, coldest September temperature).
September 12
1991: Prairie du Chien, WI (3.37") and Postville, IA (3.12") rain.
1980: Neillsville, WI (3.20") rain.
1978: Rochester, MN (5.98", wettest September day), Elgin, MN (4.51"), Mondovi, WI (4.50"), and Neillsville, WI (3.45", wettest September day) rain.
1951: Medford, WI (3.42") rain.
September 13
1993: Mondovi, WI (3.57") rain.
1992: An F1 tornado touched down 5 miles north of Melrose, WI. It caused damage for about 2 miles along Highway 54. Farm buildings and machinery were damaged and a barn was destroyed.
1982: Medford, WI (4.04") rain.
1978: Theilman, MN (4.1", wettest September day), Alma, WI (3.94", wettest September day), New Hampton, IA (3.64"), Grand Meadow, MN (3.57"), and Osage, IA (3.07") rain.
1961: Lancaster, WI (5.75", wettest September day), Muscoda, WI (4.47", wettest September day), Guttenberg, IA (4.32", wettest September day), Platteville, WI (3.2"), and Prairie du Chien, WI (3.05") rain.
1902: La Crosse, WI (32, earliest first occurrence of a freezing temperature in a year).
1897: Caledonia, MN (20, coldest September temperature). 
September 14
1994: Blair, WI (5.59", wettest September day), Sparta, WI (5.42", wettest day on record), Galesville, WI (3.78"), Mauston, WI (3.6"), and Cashton, WI (3.0") rain.
1992: Platteville, WI (3.11") and Muscoda, WI (3.03") rain.
1928: An F2 tornado moved northeast from southeast Bremer County, IA then curved due north along the county line, mostly in Fayette County, IA. Barns were destroyed and livestock was killed on at least two farms. A dozen farms had at least minor damage. Damage estimates totalled $40, 000. Neillsville, WI (3.23") and La Crosse, WI (2") rain. 
September 15
2004: After a relatively dry month, a potent late summer storm system brought very heavy rain to parts of southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa on Tuesday, Sept.14th, and Wednesday, Sept.15th. Rain was most intense from near Mason City, Iowa through the Albert Lea/Austin, MN area to areas around Rochester, MN. There were many areas that had over 4 inches of rain, with isolated higher amounts. In fact, the highest unofficial totals were out of the Blooming Prairie, MN area with 11.50 inches and 13.00 inches reported. Flash Flooding was the initial problem, but as all that rain drained into river basins, many of the regional rivers and creeks saw dramatic rises overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning. The Austin, MN area saw very high to record crest levels on the Cedar River and creeks leading into it. Other rivers affected included the Upper Iowa, Zumbro, and Root. Hardest hit was the Austin, MN area where flooding affected parts of the city and widespread sand bagging efforts took place. A 20-year old man, who was walking to work, walked into high water and was swept away. A 51-year old man also died of a heart attack while sand bagging. Some 24 hour rainfall totals from the evening of the 14th through the morning of the 15th: In MN: Dodge Center (8.45), Grand Meadow (7.20), Austin (5.40), Winona (4.98), Lanesboro (4.20), Rochester (4.20), Preston (3.99), Lanesboro (3.97), Austin (3.88). In WI: Galesville (5.35), Alma (3.59), Black River Falls (3.54), La Crosse (3.15).
1992: La Farge, WI (3.71") rain.
1941: Rochester, MN (3.17") rain.
September 16
1992: Wabash, MN (3.56") rain. Other locations in WI: Mondovi (6.3", wettest day on record), Mather (3.35", wettest September day), Alma (3.26"), Neillsville (3.03"), Readstown (3.02"), Cashton (3.01"), La Crosse (2.85").
1967: Sparta, WI (3.03") rain.
1962: An F4 tornado leveled four homes and destroyed seven others 4 miles southeast of Rochester, MN during the early morning. Damage estimates were $200, 000 and it injured 34 people. Also, on this date, an F2 tornado moved from 2 miles west of Pleasant Grove, MN to 2 miles north northeast of Pleasant Grove. Five barns were destroyed and two homes damaged from this northeast moving tornado. Blair, WI (5.26") rain.
1941: Sparta, WI (4.03") rain.
1906: Grand Meadow, MN (3.63") rain.
September 17
1942: Rochester, MN (2.36") rain.
1907: Lancaster, WI (3.79") rain.
September 18
1942: Medford, WI (6.06", wettest September day) and Richland Center, WI (3.91")rain.
1926: Mondovi, WI (3.03") rain.
1907: Prairie du Chien, WI (4.25", wettest September day) and Caledonia, MN (3.20") rain.
1897: This day began a streak of 18 straight days without La Crosse, WI recording any precipitation (September 18th through October 5th). 
September 19
1983: Rainfall from this day: In MN: Hokah (4.20", wettest September day), Austin (3.83" wettest September day), Theilman (3.07"), Rochester (2.51"). In WI: Trempealeau (3.63"), La Crosse, WI (3.35", wettest September day), Hatfield (3.14", wettest September day), Cashton (3.11", wettest September day). In IA: New Hampton (3.87").
1967: Sparta, WI (19, coldest September temperature).
1965: Dodge, WI (3.62", wettest September day).
1957: An F1 tornado occurred in Hillsboro, WI. It caused no injuries or deaths.
1942: Steuben, WI (5.74", wettest day on record).
1935: Neillsville, WI (3.1") rain.
1931: Oelwein, IA (3.05") rain.
September 20
1995: Viroqua, WI (20, coldest September temperature).
1983: Rainfall totals on this day ranged from: In IA: Osage (5.17", wettest September day), Marble Rock (3.93", wettest September day), New Hampton (3.87", wettest September day), Cresco (3.1"), Charles City (3.02"). In MN: Harmony (4.97", wettest September day), Preston (4.76", wettest September day), Lanesboro (4.34", wettest September day), Caledonia (3.88", wettest September day), Elgin (3.67"), Grand Meadow (3.63"), Sparta (3.63"), Minnesota City (3.33"), Zumbro Falls, MN (3.10"). In WI: Blair (3.42"), Neillsville (3.38"), Alma (3.17").
1980: La Crescent, MN (3.65", wettest September day).
1948: Grand Meadow, MN (3.6") rain..
1908: Neillsville, WI (98, warmest September temperature).
1907: Blair, WI (4") rain.
1881: A tornado killed 12 people in Mondovi, WI.
September 21
1995: Rochester, MN saw a trace of snow. This is their earliest first trace of snow.
1986: Some rainfall totals for the day: In IA: Cresco (5.15", wettest September day), Decorah (4.79", wettest September day), Waukon (3.35"), Elkader (3.23"). In MN: Austin (3.74"), Zumbro Falls (3.29"), Preston (3").
1980: Rainfall for this day range from: In MN: Preston (3.04"). In WI: Trempealeau (6.01", wettest day on record, also was nearly half of their monthly rainfall 13.13" which was their wettest all-time September), Owen (4.51", wettest day on record), Curtiss (4.08"), Medford (3.5"), Goodrich (3.40", wettest September day).
1924: What was probably a family of tornadoes moved northeast from near Augusta, WI to 10 miles southwest of Thorp, WI to north of Chelsea. Near Rib Lake, at least 20 farms were destroyed or altogether obliterated. Thirty other farms were damaged. Fourteen people were killed in Clark County and four in Taylor County, WI. The lack of alignment in the positions of destroyed farms, in the Withee-Thorp-Owen area hint strongly that more than one tornado was involved. Four people died and 13 were injured in that area at a Sunday School meeting in a farm house. One entire wall of a home was reportedly carried for 14 miles. Damage may have been F5 intensity 4 miles south of Thorp and north of Withee near the county border. Damage estimates were $229, 000.
See http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/052/mwr-052-09-0448.pdf
See entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1899: Cresco, IA (21, coldest September temperature).
1894: An F4 tornado moved northeast from 5 miles northeast of Mason City, IA killing at least 3 people in northeast Cerro Gordo County. At least four people died in homes 4 miles northeast of Osage, IA as 13 farm houses were destroyed in that county. At Leroy, MN, damage totalled $120, 000 as four people were killed and 80 buildings were damaged or destroyed including 35 homes. Entire farms were leveled southwest of Spring Valley, MN. Ten homes were destroyed, five people killed and 35 injured in the northwest part of Spring Valley as losses there totaled $60, 000. Another F4 tornado moved east-northeast across Mitchell and Howard Counties, IA from 2 miles south of Osage to 6 miles south of Riceville to about 10 miles west southwest of Cresco. Five or more homes were destroyed and five people were killed all in or near the community of "Lowther" (5 miles north of Elma) in Mitchell County. This tornado also caused 20 injuries. In addition to this tornado, an F2 tornado moved to the northeast from Homer, MN to Marshland, WI (Buffalo Co). The new town hall was destroyed at Homer as were two homes, a dry goods store, and three barns. Another barn was destroyed near Marshland. In addition, it caused 3 injuries.
September 22
1995: Jump River, WI (1.5") and Cashton, WI (0.5") had their earliest measurable snowfall.
1988: Platteville, WI (3.04") rain.
1986: Elgin, MN (4.76", wettest September day), Neillsville, WI (3.36"), and Mather, WI, (3.05") rain.
1980: Galesville, WI (4.08", wettest day on record).
1974: Necedah, WI (18) and Mauston, WI (20) recorded their coldest September temperature.
1967: Theilman, MN (22, coldest September temperature).
1959: An F0 tornado touched down briefly in a corn field 10 miles southeast of Stanley, WI. Westby, WI (3.26") rain.
1942: Mondovi, WI (22, coldest September temperature).
1894: An F2 tornado skipped east northeast from Akan to Willow Townships in Richland County, WI. The tornado moved just 3 miles north of Richland Center. Barns were destroyed and debris was carried over a mile. 
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
September 23
2010: An unusually moist air mass over the Central Plains and a stationary front aligned just south of Interstate 90 provided the ingredients for very heavy rainfall and significant flooding over southeast Minnesota and west-central Wisconsin. Thunderstorms moved in during the late afternoon on Wednesday the 22nd over southeast Minnesota, tracking into Wisconsin (near the I-90 corridor and north) by early evening. The rain persisted through the night. By Thursday morning, a band of 4 to 8 inches of rain had fallen with many reports of flooding. Record to near record crests occurred on the Zumbro, Black, and Trempealeau Rivers. Storm total rainfall amounts…in IA: Cresco 3.16, St. Ansgar 2.54. In MN: Dodge Center 8.97, Theilman 8.57, West Concord 8.25, Wabasha 7.29, Hayfield 7.28, Lake City 6.78, Minnesota City 6.37, Rochester 5.91, Altura 5.79, Elgin 5.42, Winona 5.15, Grand Meadow 5.00, Harmony 4.83, Lanesboro 4.51, Spring Valley 4.22, La Crescent 4.04, Highland 3.89, Spring Grove 3.76, Austin 3.75. In WI: Nelson 7.50, Alma 7.08, Black River Falls 7.01, Blair 6.72, Whitehall 6.67, Taylor 6.65, Merrillan 5.96, Neillsville 5.88, Galesville 5.55, Mondovi 5.26, Osseo 5.15, Holland 5.05, Warrens 4.97, Rock Dam 4.90, Holmen 4.89, Four Corners 4.88, Trempealeau 4.73, Gad 4.58, Genoa 4.43, Mather 4.38, Sparta 3.90, Stoddard 3.90, La Crosse 3.87, Kendall 3.77, Ontario 3.49, Medford 3.40, Jump River 3.27, Necedah 2.90, Friendship 2.87, Union Center 2.61, La Farge 2.37.
1976: Austin, MN (23 , coldest September temperature).
1926: Richland Center, WI (4.15", wettest September day).
September 24
1985: 0.2" of snow fell in Wabasha, MN. This is their earliest measurable snowfall.
See also entry for 24 Sep 1985 in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1984: Crawford and Vernon Counties, WI reported baseball sized hail (2.75"). 3" hail was reported in La Crosse County, WI with this same cluster of storms.
1950: Platteville, WI (25, coldest September temperature).
September 25
1986: Fayette, IA (3.05") rain.
1981: Oelwein, IA (3.22") rain.
1972: in IA: Charles City (5.18", wettest September day), Decorah (4.56"), Dorchester (4.21"), Cresco (3.54"), New Hampton (3.05").
1942: 0.3" of snow fell in Rochester, MN. This is their earliest measurable snowfall.
September 26
1998: Owen, WI (3.7") rain.
1994: Platteville, WI (3.07", wettest September day).
1986: An F1 tornado touched down briefly at a farm and heavily damaged a barn just south of Thorp, WI. Trees were uprooted as well, damaging nearby cars. Windows were also blown out of a house.
1984: Alma, WI (25, coldest September temperature).
1973: An F1 tornado caused an injury in Olmsted County, MN.
1965: Goodrich, WI (0.4") and Medford, WI (0.1") had their earliest measurable snowfall.
1942: Winona, MN (25, coldest September temperature). Also on this date, Caledonia, MN (5") and Fayette, IA (1"), and La Crosse, WI (0.2") had their earliest measurable snowfall. Snow fell in early morning, mostly melting as it fell.
See entry for date and following day (27 Sep) in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1934: Blair, WI (3.52") rain.
1881: An F3 tornado moved northeast across Fayette, Clayton, and Allamakee Counties in northeast Iowa. Three homes and several barns were destroyed on at least two farms. Only a foundation was left of a home in Post Township. A girl may have died and it injured 7 others. 
September 27
1902: New Hampton, IA (3.8") rain.
September 28
1986: An F2 tornado struck a farmhouse, slightly injuring a couple inside, in Colwell, IA. The roof was removed, which tipped the house over into the basement. A number of outbuildings were also destroyed.
1976: Jump River, WI (14, coldest September temperature).
1972: An F1 tornado touched down during the afternoon in Grant County, WI.
1971: A complex family of tornadoes tracked from south of Boyd, WI, to 7 miles south of Thorp, WI, to 1 mile south of Dorchester, to near Athens, to north of Merrill, WI. A brick school lost its roof and a wall. Three people were injured when their car was blown 200 feet off the road. About 60 farms along the track were damaged. The livestock loss was severe. Damage was estimated at $2, 000, 000. At least three different tornadoes were involved. There were 3 injuries in Chippewa County, 1 injury in Marathon County, and 1 injury in Clark County.
1961: Oelwein, IA (25, coldest September temperature).
1942: The following locations had their coldest September temperature: Fayette, IA (20), Richland Center, WI (22), Rochester, MN (22). 
September 29
1984: Dodge, WI (17), Genoa, WI (29) and Lynxville, WI (29) had their coldest September temperature.
1967: Blair, WI (18), Preston, MN (19), Owen, WI (21), and Hillsboro, WI (23) had their coldest September temperature.
1949: Hatfield, WI (12), Mather, WI (18), New Hampton, IA (19), Decorah, IA (21), LaCrosse, WI (23), Trempealeau, WI (23), and Guttenberg, IA (27) all recorded their coldest September temperature. 
September 30
2002: An F0 tornado touched down 2 miles southwest of the town of Chelsea, WI. The tornado caused some damage to house and a barn. It also downed numerous trees while it was on the ground for 1 mile. Another F0 tornado touched down briefly in a field just south of Loyal, WI. This tornado caused no damage. The thunderstorms associated with these tornadoes also produced hail as large as golf balls and 60 to 70 mph winds.
1961: Rainfall across the area on this date: In IA: Elkader (3.37", wettest September day), Fayette (3.35", wettest September day), Oelwein (3.35"). In WI: Richland Center (3.38"), Lynxville (3.40", wettest September day), Readstown (3.00").
1961: Austin, MN (0.5") had their earliest measurable snowfall. Lynxville, WI (3.40", wettest September day).
1939: Grand Meadow, MN (22, coldest September temperature).
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Dane County, WI Hail Storm Destruction, Sep 1886
Submitted by Stu Beitler on 6 March 2010 - 2:34pm
    Wisconsin
    Storms & Lightning
    1886
RATTLING HAIL.
SEVERE DESTRUCTION IN DANE COUNTY.
THE SEVEREST HAIL STORM EVER KNOWN IN THE REGION OF MADISON -- THOUSANDS OF GLASS WINDOWS BROKEN -- BIRDS KILLED -- VEGETATION STRIPPED -- OTHER DAMAGE.
Madison, Wis., Sept. 23. -- From 7,000 to 10,000 panes of glass, generally in greenhouses, were broken at 2:15 this morning by hail stones, which lasted three minutes. Stones fell measuring four and six inches in circumference and on the tin roofs, some of which were perforated, sounded like a canonade. Hundreds of birds were killed. The ground was given a carpet of leaves and twigs and the little outstanding tobacco was riddled. Many people resorted to cellars, fearing a cyclone. Some trembled lest an earthquake was upon them. The storm was the severest of the kind ever known here.
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern Wisconsin 1886-09-23
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September 27  1942: The max temperature was 40 degrees Fahrenheit in Minneapolis.

Get This day in Wisconsin History
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/thisday/index.asp?month=9&day=20&submit_form=Go

From http://www.lib.noaa.gov/collections/imgdocmaps/monthly_weather_review.html 
Check "Wisconsin weather service, efforts to establish 1882, MWR 768-769. 
For Rupert Batz  

URL to cite for this work: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EcoNatRes.WGB100
A tornado climatology for Wisconsin
Source:
Knox, Pamela Naber; Norgord, Douglas G.
A tornado climatology for Wisconsin
Bulletin 100
Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey,, 2000
vi, 29 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

See tornado stats for WI, MN & IA from ARX CWA 
Start with http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=tornadomain 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=tornstatestats
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=tornoutbreaks
For documentation http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=torndocum
For EF Scale  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/efscale.php
SEE 
http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/index.php
From  http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/Wisconsin/map 
All tornadoes 1950-2013
Tornado Summary 
Date(s) (yyyy-mm-dd)	Tornadoes	Fatalities	Highest Fatalities	Injuries	Highest Injuries	Longest Path	Widest Path
1950-06-25 - 2013-10-05	1284	104 people	21 people	1711 people	200 people	162 miles	3520 yards
Highest Fatalities (single tornado)  http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/19580604.55.4
Tornado Summary
Date (y/m/d)	Time	Fujita	Fatalities	Injuries	Width	Length	Damage	Crop Loss	Touchdown Lat/Lon	Liftoff Lat/Lon	SPC #	State #
1958-06-04	17:30:00 3	5	21	74	880	33.7	$5M-$50M	-	44.9 / -92.33	45.05 / -91.67	203	4
Affected States	Affected Counties
Wisconsin	St. Croix, Dunn
Highest Injuries   http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/19840607.55.15
Tornado Summary
Date (y/m/d)	Time	Fujita	Fatalities	Injuries	Width	Length	Damage	Crop Loss	Touchdown Lat/Lon	Liftoff Lat/Lon	SPC #	State #
1984-06-07	23:41:00 3	5	9	200	450	36	$50K-$500K	-	42.97 / -89.98	43.28 / -89.52	516	15
Affected States	Affected Counties
Wisconsin	Iowa, Columbia
Longest Path   http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/19530510.19.9 

Tornado Summary
Date (y/m/d)	Time	Fujita	Fatalities	Injuries	Width	Length	Damage	Crop Loss	Touchdown Lat/Lon	Liftoff Lat/Lon	SPC #	State #
1953-05-10	17:30:00 3	4	2	24	100	162	-	-	43.45 / -92.4	45.5 / -90.42	157	9
Affected States	Affected Counties
Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin	Howard, Fillmore, Olmsted, Winona, Buffalo, Trempealeau, Eau Claire, Chippewa, Taylor, Price

State Segments
Date (y/m/d)	Time	Fujita	Fatalities	Injuries	Width	Length	Damage	Crop Loss	Touchdown Lat/Lon	Liftoff Lat/Lon	SPC #	State #
1953-05-10	17:30:00 3	4	0	2	100	1.9	-	-	43.45 / -92.4	43.5 / -92.38	157	9
Affected States	Affected Counties
Iowa	Howard
Date (y/m/d)	Time	Fujita	Fatalities	Injuries	Width	Length	Damage	Crop Loss	Touchdown Lat/Lon	Liftoff Lat/Lon	SPC #	State #
1953-05-10	17:45:00 3	4	2	17	100	46.4	$500K-$5M	-	43.5 / -92.38	43.85 / -91.85	157	4
Affected States	Affected Counties
Minnesota	Fillmore, Olmsted, Winona
Date (y/m/d)	Time	Fujita	Fatalities	Injuries	Width	Length	Damage	Crop Loss	Touchdown Lat/Lon	Liftoff Lat/Lon	SPC #	State #
1953-05-10	18:30:00 3	4	0	5	100	113.7	$500K-$5M	-	44.2 / -91.85	45.5 / -90.42	157	2
Affected States	Affected Counties
Wisconsin	Buffalo, Trempealeau, Eau Claire, Chippewa, Taylor, Price
Widest path  http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/20080607.55.1125

Tornado Summary
Date (y/m/d)	Time	Fujita	Fatalities	Injuries	Width	Length	Damage	Crop Loss	Touchdown Lat/Lon	Liftoff Lat/Lon	SPC #	State #
2008-06-07	13:32:00 3	2	0	6	3520	8.63	$2500000	$500000	43.53 / -89.26	43.5 / -89.1	1125	0
Affected States	Affected Counties
Wisconsin	Columbia

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
John W. Sterling, the University's first faculty member, was described as a professor of mathematics, natural philosophy, and astronomy
Stephen Haskins Carpenter a lterature professor. 
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/wireader/Thwaites/Chapter03.html#Footnote05

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/derechofacts
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/climatologypage.htm
  "Sap flow" followed by "Physiological Explanation for Sap Flow" in 
http://employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe/biol327/lab/maple/maple-sap.htm
Climate Change and Maple Syrup 
http://environment.about.com/od/globalwarming/fl/Climate-Change-and-Maple-Syrup.htm
http://www.cara.psu.edu/about/publications/Maple_syrup.pdf
http://climatewisconsin.org/story/sugaring
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Wisconsin/Publications/Crops/maple.pdf  -- 
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Also run off http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk 
From http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_history/index.php?m=2&d=1&y=2014   
Weather History
For Saturday, February 1, 2014
1893 - Thunder and lightning accompanied sleet and snow at Saint Louis MO during the evening hours, even though the temperature was just 13 degrees above zero. (The Weather Channel)
1951 - The greatest ice storm of record in the U.S. produced glaze up to four inches thick from Texas to Pennsylvania causing twenty-five deaths, 500 serious injuries, and 100 million dollars damage. Tennessee was hardest hit by the storm. Communications and utilities were interrupted for a week to ten days. (David Ludlum)
1951 - The temperature at Taylor Park Dam plunged to 60 degrees below zero, a record for the state of Colorado. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1985 - Snow, sleet and ice glazed southern Tennessee and northern sections of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The winter storm produced up to eleven inches of sleet and ice in Lauderdale County AL, one of the worst storms of record for the state. All streets in Florence AL were closed for the first time of record. (1st-2nd) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A storm in the Pacific Northwest produced wind gusts to 100 mph at Cape Blanco OR, and up to six inches of rain in the northern coastal mountain ranges. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thirty cities in the eastern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date, including Richmond VA with a reading of 73 degrees. Thunderstorms in southern Louisiana deluged Basile with 12.34 inches of rain. Arctic cold gripped the north central U.S. Wolf Point MT reported a low of 32 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - While arctic cold continued to invade the central U.S., fifty-four cities in the south central and eastern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. Russell KS, the hot spot in the nation with a high of 84 degrees the previous day, reported a morning low of 12 above. Tioga ND reported a wind chill reading of 90 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Thunderstorms associated with an upper level weather disturbance produced severe weather across the eastern half of Texas during the late afternoon and evening. Four persons were injured at Waco TX where thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 80 mph. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 97 mph at Cotulla TX injuring two other persons. Golf ball size hail was reported at Whitney and northeast of Whitsett. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Sunday, February 2, 2014
1952 - The only tropical storm of record to hit the U.S. in February moved out of the Gulf of Mexico and across southern Florida. It produced 60 mph winds, and two to four inches of rain. (2nd-3rd) (The Weather Channel)
1956 - A record snowstorm in New Mexico and west Texas began on Ground Hog's Day. The storm produced 15 inches of snow at Roswell NM, and up to 33 inches in the Texas Panhandle. (David Ludlum)
1987 - A fast moving arctic front brought snow and high winds to the north central U.S. Winds gusted to 69 mph at Brookings SD. Big Falls MN reported nine inches of snow. Record warmth was reported just ahead of the front. Burlington IA reported a record high of 59 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A dying low pressure system over southern California deluged the San Diego coastal mountains with more than four inches of rain causing half a million dollars damage. Arctic air invading the north central U.S. sent the mercury plunging to 38 degrees below zero at Park Rapids MN. Raleigh NC reported a record high of 75 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Bitter cold air covered much of the central U.S. Butte MT reported a wind chill reading of 91 degrees below zero, Salt Lake City UT was blanketed with 11.9 inches of snow in 24 hours, and winds around Reno NV gusted to 80 mph. Unseasonably warm weather continued in the southeastern U.S. Twenty-eight cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Wilmington NC with a reading of 80 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the late afternoon and evening hours. One person was injured in a tornado near Reidheimer LA. Thunderstorms northeast of Brandon MS produced hail three inches in diameter along with high winds which downed or snapped off one hundred trees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2006 - New Orleans is struck by two tornadoes, collapsing at least one previously damaged house and battering Louis Armstrong International Airport. The Weather Doctor
2008 - Hilo, HI, is deluged by 10.82 inches of rain in a period of 24 hours, breaking the previous record set in 1969 by 3.5 inches. The Weather Doctor
2011 - A high temperature of 44°F registered at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, AZ, sets an all-time February record for the coldest high temperature for the city. The Weather Doctor 
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Weather History
For Monday, February 3, 2014
1917 - Downtown Miami, FL, reported an all-time record low of 27 degrees. (David Ludlum)
1947 - The temperature at Tanacross, AK, plunged to a record 75 degrees below zero. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Wintry weather was confined to freezing drizzle and light snow in the northeastern U.S., and light rain and snow in the western U.S. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Arctic air continued to invade the central U.S. The temperature at Midland TX plunged from a record high of 80 degrees to 37 degrees in just three hours. Morning lows in the higher elevations of Wyoming were as cold as 38 degrees below zero. Heavy snow blanketed southwestern Colorado, with 16 inches reported at Steamboat Springs. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - A winter storm brought heavy snow and high winds to the western U.S. Up to three feet of snow blanketed the Sierra Nevada of California, and buried parts of northeastern Washington State under three feet of snow in five days. High winds across Washington State reached 75 mph, with gusts to 105 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Severe cold gripped the north central U.S. The morning low of 29 degrees below zero at Casper WY was a record for the month of February. Wisdom MT hit 53 degrees below zero. Missoula MT reported a wind chill reading of 85 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather over the central Gulf coast states during the afternoon and evening hours. Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes in Alabama, including one which touched down north of Birmingham injuring fifteen people and causing nearly three million dollars damage. A tornado at Margaret injured eleven persons and caused a million dollars damage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, February 4, 2014
1961 - The third great snowstorm of the winter season struck the northeastern U.S. Cortland NY received 40 inches of snow. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Gales lashed the northern Pacific coast and the coast of northern New England. A storm in the central U.S. produced five inches of snow at Rapid City SD. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - A winter storm produced heavy snow from the Upper Ohio Valley to New England, with up to 12 inches reported in Vermont and New Hampshire. Strong northerly winds in the Upper Midwest produced wind chill readings as cold as 60 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Two dozen cities in the south central and northwestern U.S. reported new record low temperatures for the date. The low of 14 below zero at Boise ID was a February record. A winter storm continued in the southwestern U.S. Alta UT reported 49 inches of snow in four days, Wolf Creek CO reported 66 inches in six days, including 28 inches in 24 hours, and up to 84 inches buried the ski resorts of northern New Mexico in three days. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - A winter storm produced heavy snow in the northeastern U.S. Snowfall totals in Maine ranged up to 13 inches at Gorham, with 11 inches reported at Portland. Totals in New Hampshire ranged up to 14 inches at Franconia, with 13 inches reported at Portsmouth. A mixture of snow, sleet and freezing rain caused numerous traffic accidents in eastern New York State resulting in three deaths and fourteen injuries. Subzero cold also gripped parts of the northeastern U.S. Caribou ME and Houlton ME reported morning lows of 15 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2004 - 7.15 inches of rain deluges Pinson, AL, setting an all-time record rainfall over 24 hours for the town. The Weather Doctor
2007 - Kahului reports a minimum temperature of 54°F, a daily low temperature record for the date. The Weather Doctor 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, February 5, 2014
1887 - San Francisco experienced its greatest snowstorm of record. Nearly four inches was reported in downtown San Francisco, and the western hills of the city received seven inches. Excited crowds went on a snowball throwing rampage. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Thunderstorms in the Southern Plains Region caused flooding in parts of south central Texas. Del Rio TX was soaked with two inches of rain in two hours prior to sunrise. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Cold and snow invaded the southern U.S. Roswell NM was buried under 16.5 inches of snow in 24 hours, an all-time record for that location. Parts of the Central Gulf Coast Region reported their first significant snow in fifteen years. Strong winds in Minnesota and the Dakotas produced wind chill readings as cold as 75 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Severe cold gripped much of the nation. Thirty cities reported new record low temperatures for the date. Morning lows of 9 above at Astoria OR and 27 below zero at Ely NV were records for February. In Alaska, Point Barrow warmed to 24 degrees above zero, and Nome reached 30 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - For the second time in two days, and the third time in a week, high winds plagued the northwestern U.S. Winds in Oregon gusted to 60 mph at Cape Disappointment, and wind gusts in Washington State reached 67 mph at Bellingham. The first in a series of cold fronts began to produce heavy snow in the mountains of Washington and Oregon. Ten inches of snow fell at Timberline OR. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2006 - Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire reaches a high of 41°F, the warmest February 5th on record at the summit and two degrees off the monthly mark, where records have been kept since 1932. The Weather Doctor
2008 - The deadliest round of tornadoes in nearly a quarter century kill 58 people in the south. The storms kill 32 people in Tennessee, 14 in Arkansas, seven in Kentucky and five in Alabama. Damage is likely to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Weather Doctor
2010 - A mega-snowstorm, which President Obama dubbed Snowmageddon, buried the Washington D.C. area with more than 30 inches of snow in some areas. At American University in Washington the official snowfall was 27.5 inches. Snowfall totals in the Washington DC area range from a low of 17.9 inches at Ronald Reagan National Airport to 40 inches in the northern suburb of Colesville, MD. Dulles Airport reported 32.4 inches, which established a new two-day snowfall record. The Baltimore-Washington International Airport, MD, measured 24.8 inches from the storm breaking the record for the largest two day snowfall there. It is one of the worst blizzards in the city's history. 
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Weather History
For Thursday, February 6, 2014
1807 - It was the famous "Cold Friday" in the Midwest and South. The temperature did not rise above zero in Ohio and Kentucky. (David Ludlum)
1978 - A massive nor'easter buried the cities of the northeastern U.S. Storm totals included 18 inches at New York City, 16 inches at Philadelphia, and 14 inches at Baltimore. The Boston MA area received 25 to 30 inches in "The Great New England Blizzard" and the mayor outlawed travel in the city for an entire week. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Brownsville, TX, was deluged with seven inches of rain in just two hours, and flooding in some parts of the city was worse than that caused by Hurricane Beulah in 1967. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Arctic cold invaded the south central and eastern U.S. Sixteen cities reported new record low temperatures for the date. Squalls in the Great Lakes Region produced a foot of snow at Arcade NY in three hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Forty-one cities in the western U.S. reported new record low temperatures for the date. Lows of -30 degrees at Ely NV and -33 degrees at Richfield UT were all-time records. Morning lows of 31 degrees at San Francisco CA and -15 degrees at Reno NV were records for February. Logan Canyon UT was the cold spot in the nation with a low of 54 degrees below zero, and Craig CO hit 51 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - A second cold front brought more heavy snow to the high elevations of Oregon, with 12 inches reported at Sunset Summit. Ten inches of snow blanketed Crater Lake and Mount Bachelor. Heavy snow also blanketed northeastern Nevada and parts of Washington State. In Nevada, up to a foot of snow was reported between Spring Creek and Lamoille. Stevens Pass WA received 14 inches of snow in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Friday, February 7, 2014
1861 - The temperature at Gouverneur, NY, bottomed out at -40 degrees, a drop of 70 degrees in one day. Two days later the mercury hit 55 degrees. (David Ludlum)
1861 - Hanover, NH, plunged from 37 degrees at 1 PM on the 7th to 32 degrees below zero at 7 AM on the 8th, and West Cummington MA plummeted 80 degrees to -32 degrees. Boston MA plunged from 46 degrees to -14 degrees, and on the 11th was back up to 60 degrees. (7th-8th) (The Weather Channel)
1934 - A deep freeze made it possible to drive from Bay Shore to Fire Island NY. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1978 - The worst winter storm of record struck coastal New England. The storm produced 27.5 inches of snow at Boston, and nearly 50 inches in northeastern Rhode Island. The fourteen foot tide at Portland ME was probably the highest of the century. Winds gusted to 79 mph at Boston, and reached 92 mph at Chatham MA. A hurricane size surf caused 75 deaths and 500 million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Low pressure in Manitoba, Canada, pulled warm air up from the Gulf of Mexico, and more than forty cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including North Platte NE and Rapid City SD with readings of 73 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Twenty-two cities in the eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Binghamton NY with a reading of 5 degrees below zero. Snow blanketed southern Louisiana, with three inches reported at Cameron. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Twenty-five cities in the western U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date. Lows of 16 at Las Vegas NV, 26 at Bakersfield CA, -29 degrees at Milford UT, and -16 degrees at Reno NV were February records. The low of 43 degrees below zero at Boca CA was a state record for the month of February. In Utah, lows of -32 degrees at Bryce Canyon, -27 degrees at Delta, -29 degrees at Dugway, and -38 degrees at Vernal were all-time records for those locations. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - A slow moving cold front spread heavy snow across the state of Utah. Storm totals ranged up to 31 inches at Alta, with 24 inches at reported Brighton and 23 inches at Snowbird. Bitter cold weather prevailed across Alaska for the thirteenth day in a row, with morning lows of -42 degrees at Fairbanks, -48 degrees at Nenana, and -54 degrees at Bettles. Anchorage AK reported a record low of 23 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Saturday, February 8, 2014
1835 - A severe cold wave gripped the southeastern U.S. The mercury dipped to 8 above at Jacksonville FL, and to zero at Savannah GA. Orange trees were killed to the roots. (David Ludlum)
1936 - The temperature at Denver CO plunged to a record 30 degrees below zero. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1985 - Blue Canyon, CA, set a 24-hour February snowfall record by receiving 42 inches of snow from February 7th-8th.
1987 - A powerful storm produced blizzard conditions in the Great Lakes Region. Winds gusted to 86 mph at Janesville WI and Cleveland OH received 12 inches of snow. North winds of 50 to 70 mph raised the water level of southern Lake Michigan two feet, and produced waves 12 to 18 feet high, causing seven million dollars damage along the Chicago area shoreline. It was the most damage caused by shoreline flooding and erosion in the history of the city of Chicago. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Arctic air invaded the north central U.S. Hibbing MN reported a morning low of 30 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - A winter storm over California produced snow from the beaches of Malibu to the desert canyons around Palm Springs, and the snow created mammoth traffic jams in the Los Angeles Basin. Sixteen cities in the western U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date. Marysville CA reported an all-time record low reading of 21 degrees above zero. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Unseasonably mild weather prevailed across the south central and eastern U.S. Twenty-two cities, including five in Michigan, reported record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 53 degrees at Flint MI surpassed their previous record by ten degrees, and the high of 66 degrees at Burlington IA exceeded their old record by eight degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
2009 - Snow falls at levels above elevations of 11,000 feet on the Big Island's Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The Weather Doctor 
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Weather History
For Sunday, February 9, 2014
1933 - The temperature at Moran, WY, located next to Teton National Park, plunged to 63 degrees below zero to establish a state record. The temperature at the Riverside Ranger Station in Montana dipped to 66 below zero to establish a record for the state, and a record for the nation which stood until 1954. (David Ludlum)
1934 - The mercury dipped to 51 degrees below zero at Vanderbilt to establish a record for the state of Michigan. The temperature at Stillwater plunged to 52 degrees below zero to establish a record for the state of New York. (David Ludlum)
1987 - A storm off the Atlantic coast produced high winds and heavy snow in the northeastern U.S., with blizzard conditions in eastern Massachusetts. Wind gusted to 80 mph and 23.4 inches of snow produced drifts eight feet high at Cape Cod MA. It was the worst blizzard in thirty years for the Cape Cod area. Winds in some of the mountains and ridges of the Appalachian Region gusted to 100 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Arctic cold invaded the north central U.S. Alliance NE plunged from 44 degrees to 12 above in just two hours, and Mobridge SD reported a wind chill of 64 degrees below zero. Winds along the eastern slopes of the Rockies gusted to 90 mph at Cheyenne WY, and reached 96 mph at Boulder CO. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - A winter storm continued to bring rain and snow to southern California. Snowfall totals ranged up to 18 inches at Olancha, with three inches at Palmdale. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front erupted over eastern Texas late in the morning, and produced severe weather as they swept across the southeastern states. Early evening thunderstorms spawned a tornado which injured one person at Nat TX, and produced tennis balls size hail which caused more than half a million dollars damage around Shreveport LA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Monday, February 10, 2014
1899 - The temperature at Monterey plunged to 29 degrees below zero, establishing record for the state of Virginia. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1973 - A major snowstorm struck the southeastern U.S. It produced as much as 18 inches in Georgia, and up to two feet of snow in South Carolina. (David Ludlum)
1978 - As much as eight inches of rain drenched southern California resulting in widespread flooding and mudslides. The heavy rainfall produced a wall of water which ripped through the mountain resort community of Hidden Springs drowning at least thirteen persons. The storm was one of the most destructive of record causing fifty million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1982 - Bismarck, ND, experienced its 45th consecutive day of subzero temperature readings which tied the previous record long string of subzero daily lows ending on the same date in 1937. (David Ludlum)
1987 - A storm in the northeastern U.S. produced heavy snow in southeastern Maine. Grand Falls and Woodland received 15 inches, mainly during the early morning hours, while most of the rest of the state did not even see a flake of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Bitter cold arctic air gripped the north central U.S. International Falls MN was the cold spot in the nation with a low of 35 degrees below zero. Record warm readings were reported in southern California, with highs of 78 at San Francisco and 88 at Los Angeles. San Juan Capistrano CA was the hot spot in the nation with a high of 92 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - For the first time all month winter relaxed its grip on the nation. The temperature at Brownsville TX warmed above 60 degrees for the first time in six days, ending their second longest such cold spell of record. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front continued to produce severe weather across the southeastern U.S. through the morning hours and into the late afternoon. There were a total of twenty-nine tornadoes in twenty-nine hours, and 245 reports of large hail or damaging winds. Pre-dawn thunderstorms produced high winds which injured at least seventy persons in Alabama and Georgia, and caused more than twelve million dollars property damage. A tornado at Austell GA prior to daybreak injured two persons and caused two million dollars damage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2010 - A second major snowstorm, dubbed Snoverkill and Snowmaggedon 2.0, further buries the Nation's Capital with 10.8 inches of new snow. Schools, businesses and even parts of the Federal government are shut down by blizzard conditions. The city now has a deeper snowpack, 28 inches, than the 20 inches in Anchorage, AK, or 27 inches in Marquette, MI.
2011 - The coldest day in Oklahoma history sees the temperature plunge to -31°F at Nowata, OK. A US National Weather Service station at Bartlesville recorded a reading of -28°F. Both locations break the previous low temperature mark of -27°F set in 1905 and tied in 1930. The Weather Doctor 
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See also http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_history/
now https://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_history/
See also http://climate.umn.edu/pdf/day_in_weather_history/may_wx_history.pdf 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/?n=thisdayinhistory
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/history/request_history.php
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/program_areas/wxhisttdy/calendar.php
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http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/wisconsin/waukeshaWI1912/waukeshaWI1912.pdf
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/wisconsin/jefffersonWI1914/jeffersonWI1914.pdf
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/wisconsin/daneWI1915/daneWI1915.pdf

http://research.chicagobooth.edu/economy/research/articles/125.pdf

http://weather.about.com/od/weatherhistory/tp/Signal_Service.htm
http://www.thestormking.com/Weather/Nevada_Climate_History/Weather_Observations/weather_observations.html
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/027.html
https://webapps8.dnr.state.mn.us/volunteer_index/past.../article_pdf?id..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_meteorology
http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/assets/technotes/TECH-NOTE-000-000-000-597.pdf
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/civil/gillett2/amedd_1818-1865_bib.html
http://climate.umn.edu/pdf/Fort_Ridgely_Boulay.pdf

See http://siarchives.si.edu/search/sia_search/Smithsonian%20Meteorological%20Project
esp. http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/henry/meteorology
http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/civil-war-reconnaissance-takes-flight
http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/henry/lightning

also http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/smithsonian-recycling-1862