Friday, 16 April 1999
- UPPER AIR
- YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE EXTREMES IN THE LOWER 48
- ALASKAN WEATHER
- HAWAIIAN WEATHER
- HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS
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UPPER AIR -- The 500 mb constant pressure chart for 00Z
Friday ...
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE EXTREMES IN THE LOWER 48 -- The
lowest temperature on Thursday was XX degrees at XXX, while the
day's high was XX degrees at XXX.
ALASKAN WEATHER -- ....
The statewide lowest overnight temperature on Thursday was XX
degrees at XXX. The highest midafternoon temperature in Alaska
was XX degrees at XXX.
HAWAIIAN WEATHER -- ...
HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 16 April
From the files of the Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City,
MO and Intellicast
- ...1849...A severe freeze from Georgia to Texas killed cotton,
and snow lay on the ground at Charleston, SC. (Intellicast)
- ...1851...The famous "Lighthouse Storm" raged near
Boston Harbor. Whole gales and gigantic waves destroyed Minot
Light at Cohasset, MA with the loss of its two keepers still inside.
The storm resulted in massive tidal flooding, great shipping losses
and coastal erosion. (David Ludlum)
- ...1880...A tornado near Marshall, MO carried the heavy timbers
of an entire home a distance of twelve miles. (The Weather Channel)
- ...1933...Franklin Lake, NH was buried under 35 inches of
snow. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
- ...1944...An F4 tornado tracked 40 miles through Franklin,
Hart, and Elbert counties in Georgia and through Anderson and
Abbeville counties in South Carolina. Twenty five were killed
and 120 were injured. Damage totaled $1 million. (Intellicast)
- ...1960...A wind gust of 70 mph was measured at the Stapleton
International Airport in Denver, CO, their highest wind gust of
record. (The Weather Channel)
- ...1975...A single storm brought 119 inches of snow to Crater
Lake, OR, establishing a state record. (Intellicast)
- ...1987...A slow moving storm system produced heavy rain over
North Carolina and the Middle Atlantic Coast States. More than
six inches of rain drenched parts of Virginia, and flooding in
Virginia claimed three lives. Floodwaters along the James River
inundated parts of Richmond, VA. (The National Weather Summary)
(Storm Data)
- ...1988...A storm in the northeastern U.S. produced a foot
of snow at Pittsburg, VT. Severe thunderstorms produced baseball
size hail and spawned five tornadoes in the Southern High Plains
Region. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
- ...1989...A cold front, ushering sharply colder air into the
north central U.S., brought snow to parts of Montana and North
Dakota. At midday the temperature at Cutbank, MT was just 22 degrees.
(The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
- ...1990...Thunderstorms developing along a stationary front
produced large hail and damaging winds across Oklahoma, with 99
reports of large hail and damaging winds during the evening and
early nighttime hours. Thunderstorms produced baseball size hail
south of Carney, and wind gusts to 100 mph in the Oklahoma City
area which swept away many Federal tax returns being transported
from a mail cart to a waiting truck about the time of the midnight
deadline. Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City reported a record
wind gust of 92 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
17 April
- ...1922...A family of at least six tornadoes caused death
and destruction along parts of a 210 mile path from north of Ogden,
IL to Allen County, OH, killing at least 20 persons. A post card,
picked up in Madison County, IN by an F-4 tornado, was found 124
miles away near Mount Cory, OH. (The Weather Channel) (Intellicast)
- ...1942...A deluge of 8.35 inches in two hours dampened West
Palm Beach, FL. (Intellicast)
- ...1953...One of the few severe hailstorms accompanied by
snow, sleet, glaze, and rain, pelted parts of Kay, Osage, Creek,
Tulsa, Washington, and Rogers Counties in northeastern Oklahoma
late in the day. Nearly 10,000 insurance claims were filed. (The
Weather Channel)
- ...1965...The Mississippi River reached a flood crest at Saint
Paul, MN four feet higher than any previous mark. During the next
two weeks record levels were reached along the upper Mississippi
between Saint Paul and Hannibal, MO. Flooding caused more than
100 million dollars damage, but timely warnings kept the death
toll down to just twelve persons. (David Ludlum)
- ...1983...A very late snowfall occurred in a narrow band across
central Iowa with Des Moines recording 8 inches -- a record for
the month of April. (Intellicast)
- ...1987...Twenty-two cities in the central U.S. reported new
record high temperatures for the date. Temperatures warmed into
the 70s and 80s from the High Plains Region to the Mississippi
Valley, with readings in the low 90s reported in the Southern
Plains Region. Tulsa, OK hit 92 degrees. (The National Weather
Summary)
- ...1988...Heavy snow blanketed northern Arizona. Snowfall
totals ranged up to 16 inches at Pinetop, with 10 inches reported
at Flagstaff. Afternoon thunderstorms spawned a couple of tornadoes
in Idaho. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
- ...1989...Arctic cold invaded the north central U.S. Missoula,
MT was blanketed with four inches of snow, and Glasgow, MT reported
a record cold morning low of 14 degrees above zero. (Storm Data)
(The National Weather Summary)
- ...1990...High winds in northern Utah, gusting to 90 mph in
Weber County, blew a trampoline through a living room window,
and strong winds associated with a cold front crossing the Middle
Atlantic Coast Region gusted to 75 mph in the Chesapeake Bay area
of Virginia. Unseasonably cold weather prevailed in the north
central U.S. Valentine, NE was the cold spot in the nation with
a record low of 10 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm
Data)
18 April
- ...1880...A major tornado outbreak occurred from Kansas and
Arkansas to Wisconsin and Michigan with 22 tornadoes rated F2
or greater. Three F4 tornadoes in Missouri caused most of the
deaths, with 68 people killed at Marshfield, MO. Another F4 tornado
in Missouri was on the ground for 93 miles. In this outbreak,
165 people were killed and over 500 were injured. (David Ludlum)
(Intellicast)
- ...1896...New York City had their earliest 90 degree reading
of the season. (Intellicast)
- ...1906...A severe earthquake shook San Francisco, and unusual
easterly winds drove flames westward through the city destroying
the city rather than confining the fires to the downtown harbor
area. (David Ludlum) (Intellicast)
- ...1944...California experienced its worst hailstorm of record.
Damage mounted to two million dollars as two consecutive storms
devastated the Sacramento Valley destroying the fruit crop. (The
Weather Channel)
- ...1957...A dust devil near Dracut, MA lifted a small child
three feet into the air, and rolled two other children on the
ground. Fortunately none of the three were hurt. The dust devil
was accompanied by a loud whistling sound as it moved westward.
(The Weather Channel)
- ...1970...Rapid City, SD received a record 22 inches of snow
in 24 hours. (17th-18th) (The Weather Channel)
A violent tornado (F4) at Clarendon, TX drove a piece of wood
into a 1.5 inch thick iron gate frame. (Intellicast)
- ...1987...Thirty-one cities in the central U.S. reported record
high temperatures for the date, including International Falls,
MN with a reading of 88 degrees, and Bismarck, ND with a high
of 92 degrees. A sharp cold front produced high winds in the western
U.S. Winds in Utah gusted to 99 mph at the Park City Angle Station,
and capsized a boat on Utah Lake drowning four persons. (The National
Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
- ...1988...Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced large
hail and damaging winds in the southeastern U.S. A strong (F-2)
tornado severely damaged seventeen mobile homes near Bainbridge,
GA injuring three persons. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm
Data)
- ...1989...Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds
in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. A thunderstorm in Pecos County
of southwest Texas produced wind gusts to 90 mph at Imperial.
(Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
- ...1990...Heavy snow blanketed the west central valleys and
southwest mountains of Colorado with up to 18 inches of snow.
Nine cities from the Mid Mississippi Valley to the Middle Atlantic
Coast Region reported record low temperatures for the date, including
Fort Wayne, IN with a reading of 23 degrees. (The National Weather
Summary) (Storm Data)
- ...1996...Twenty seven inches of snow over the last three
days from an upper level low pressure system raised the snow cover
on top of Mount Mansfield, VT to an impressive late season 135
inches. (Intellicast)
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