Friday Daily Weather Summary

ONLINE DAILY WEATHER SUMMARY

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)