DATASTREME ATMOSPHERE DAILY SUMMARY

Monday, 17 June 2013

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HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 17 June

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

• ...1859...Hot Santa Ana winds in southern California roasted fruit on one side at Santa Barbara. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
• ...1882...A tornado traveled more than 200 miles across the state of Iowa killing 130 persons. The tornado (estimated as an F5 tornado on the Fujita scale) touched down about ninety miles west of Grinnell, and struck the town and college around sunset, killing sixty persons, and causing more than half a million dollars damage. Traveling at nearly 60 mph, the tornado hit Mount Pleasant about 11 PM causing another half a million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
• ...1965...Holly, CO was deluged with 11.08 inches of rain to establish a state 24-hour rainfall record. (The Weather Channel)
• ...1987...Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S. Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Lyons, and baseball size hail at Garden City. The Edwards Aquifer, which supplies water to San Antonio TX, reached a record level of 699.2 feet following a record 18.43 inches of rain in thirty days. Torrential rains between the mid May and mid June sent 8.8 million acre feet of water down the rivers of southern Texas, the largest volume in 100 years of records. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
• ...1988...Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in Georgia and the Carolinas. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Eden, NC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
• ...1989...Unseasonably cool air, responsible for 37 record lows in the central U.S. on the 15^th and 16^th, including a low of 33 degrees at Valentine, NE on the 15^th, overspread the eastern U.S. ending a three-day siege of severe weather. (The National Weather Summary)