Tuesday Daily Summary

DATASTREME ATMOSPHERE DAILY SUMMARY

Tuesday, 4 January 2005

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HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 4 January

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

...1780...A great snowstorm and gale struck George Washington's headquarters in Morristown, NJ, burying his army and buffeting the British supply fleets at sea. (Intellicast)
...1859..."Deep snow" fell in New England when 26 inches fell at Middletown, CT and 36 inches at Hartford, CT. 30 inches fell in 12 hours at Goffstown, NH. (Intellicast)
...1888...Sacramento, CA received 3.5 inches of snow, an all-time record for that location. The heaviest snow in recent history was two inches on 5 February 1976. (4th-5th) (The Weather Channel)
...1917...An F3 tornado cut a 15 mile path through Pittsburg county in Oklahoma. Sixteen people were killed. (Intellicast)
...1971...A blizzard raged from Kansas to Wisconsin, claiming 27 lives in Iowa. Winds reached 50 mph, and the storm produced up to 20 inches of snow. (David Ludlum)
...1981...The second record cold blast engulfed the northeast during the 1980-81 winter season. Record low temperatures included 27 degrees below zero at Burlington, VT and Caribou, ME, 18 below at Portland, ME, 7 below at Providence, RI and 8 below at Pittsburgh, PA. Other low temperatures included 42 degrees below zero at Old Forge, NY and East Haven, VT, and 41 below at Enosburg Falls, VT and Houlton, ME. (Intellicast)
...1982...Milwaukee, WI was shut down completely as a storm buried the city under 16 inches of snow in 24 hours. It was the worst storm in thirty-five years. (David Ludlum)
...1987...A storm moving off the Pacific Ocean spread wintry weather across the southwestern U.S., with heavy snow extending from southern California to western Wyoming. Up to 15 inches of snow blanketed the mountains of southern California, and rainfall totals in California ranged up to 2.20 inches in the Chino area. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Frigid arctic air invading the central and eastern U.S. left Florida about the only safe refuge from the cold and snow. A storm in the western U.S. soaked Bodega Bay in central California with 3.12 inches of rain. (National Weather Summary)
...1989...Up to a foot of snow blanketed the mountains of West Virginia, and strong winds in the northeastern U.S. produced wind chill readings as cold as 60 degrees below zero in Maine. Mount Washington, NH reported wind gusts to 136 mph along with a temperature of 30 degrees below zero! (National Weather Summary)
...1990...A winter storm moving out of the southwestern U.S. spread heavy snow across Nebraska and Iowa into Wisconsin. Snowfall totals in Nebraska ranged up to 7 inches at Auburn and Tecumseh. Totals in Iowa ranged up to 11 inches at Carlisle. In Iowa, most of the snow fell between midnight and 4 AM. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1992...A subtropical low pressure area developed explosively over the Gulf Stream waters east of Cape Hatteras, NC and apparently deepened 18 millibars in just 3 hours. The central pressure dropped from 994 to 976 millibars and bottomed out at 968 millibars 3 hours later. An offshore buoy recorded a pressure drop of 9.2 millibars in just one hour. Major coastal flooding and beach erosion occurred along the New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia coasts as the storm "made landfall". A wind gust to 83 mph was recorded at Indian River, Delaware and a gust to 89 mph occurred at Chincoteague, VA. Ocean City, MD was hit "very hard" with winds sustained at 50 mph and gusts to 70 mph. At the Ocean City airport, the runway flooding was the worst ever observed. Substantial beach erosion was reported at Rehoboth Beach, DE that rivaled damage one by the Great March 1962 storm. Total damage reached $45 million in New Jersey alone. Rainfall at inland locations over the mid-Atlantic was very heavy in some places with Witts Orchard, VA checking in with a 24-hour total of 7.56 inches. (Intellicast)
...1994... A major coastal storm was in progress across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states, blanketed much of the region with heavy snow. Elkins, WV recorded 6 inches of snow in one hour and Syracuse, NY had 5 inches of snow per hour for two consecutive hours. Syracuse measured 18 inches for the storm. Other big snowfall totals included 20 inches at Renovo, PA and 18.5 inches at Tully, NY. More than two feet was reported in northwestern Pennsylvania, with 33 inches at Waynesburg. There were ten heart attacks, and 185 injuries, related to the heavy snow in northwest Pennsylvania. Whiteout conditions were reported in Vermont and northeastern New York State. As the storm passed off the New Jersey coast, a gravity wave was induced near Allentown, PA. The barometric pressure plunged 22.4 millibars from 997.7 to 975.3 mb in just 45 minutes at Allentown, and then rebounded almost as much in only 15 minutes. The gravity wave propagated northeastward and produced similar pressure fluctuations in New England. Boston, MA recorded a wind gust to 66 mph as the wave passed, along with heavy sleet. A wind gusts to 75 mph was clocked at Shaftsbury, VT. In the Adirondacks of eastern New York State, the town of Tupper reported five inches of snow between 1 PM and 2 PM. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) (Intellicast)