Historical Weather Events

HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 27 June

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

...1901...A rain of fish from the sky was reported at Tiller's Ferry, SC. Hundreds of fish were swimming between cotton rows after a heavy shower. (David Ludlum)
...1915...The temperature at Fort Yukon, AK soared to 100 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel)
...1953...A tornado produced F5 damage in Cass and Adair counties in Iowa killing one person and injuring two others as it cut a 10 mile path across rural areas. A board was driven into a tree. (National Weather Service files)
...1957...Hurricane Audrey smashed ashore at Cameron, LA drowning 381 persons in the storm tide, and causing 150 million dollars damage in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Audrey left only a brick courthouse and a cement-block icehouse standing at Cameron, and when the waters settled in the town of Crede, only four buildings remained. The powerful winds of Audrey tossed a fishing trawler weighing 78 tons onto an offshore drilling platform. Winds along the coast gusted to 105 mph, and oil rigs off the Louisiana coast reported wind gusts to 180 mph. A storm surge greater than twelve feet inundated the Louisiana coast as much as 25 miles inland. It was the deadliest June hurricane of record for the U.S. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Thunderstorms moving out of Nebraska produced severe weather in north central Kansas after midnight. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph damaged more than fifty camping trailers at the state park campground at Waconda Lake Reservoir injuring sixteen persons. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Beloit and Sylvan Grove. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...The afternoon high of 107 degrees at Bismarck, ND was a record for the month of June, and Pensacola, FL equaled their June record with a reading of 101 degrees. Temperatures in the Great Lakes Region and the Ohio Valley dipped into the 40s. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Ohio Valley to western New England. Thunderstorm spawned six tornadoes, and there were 98 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Tropical Storm Allison spawned six tornadoes in Louisiana, injuring two persons at Hackberry. Fort Polk, LA was drenched with 10.09 inches of rain in 36 hours, and 12.87 inches was reported at the Gorum Fire Tower in northern Louisiana. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1992...A supercell thunderstorm produced 5 tornadoes over Hutchinson, Carson, and Moore Counties in Texas, including a F4 that caused 35.4 million dollars in damage as it tore through Fritch. A resident of Fritch videotaped as the huge multiple vortex tornado approached, and kept the tape rolling until the tornado was practically on top of him. He survived, with the tape intact. The tape showed one of the most graphic and breathtaking displays of tornadic devastation ever recorded. (Intellicast)
...1994...The temperature reached 122 degrees at the Waste Isolation Treatment Plant east of Carlsbad, NM to set the state high temperature record for New Mexico. In Oklahoma, the temperature at the mesonet station near Tipton reached 120 degrees, setting an all-time record for the Sooner State. (NCDC) (Accord's Weather Guide Calendar)
...1995...The Madison County Flood on 27 June 1995 was the worst flash flood that Virginia had seen since the remnants of Camille dropped up to 30 inches of rain one night in Nelson County in August 1969. The Nelson County flood ranks as one of the nation's worst flash floods of the 20th century. The floods and landslides led to the death of 117 people. (National Weather Service files)
...2011...A heat burst from dying thunderstorms caused the temperature at Owensboro, KY to shoot up from the 80s to 102 degrees. (National Weather Service files)

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