Subj : Today's Weather History To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Sun Apr 16 2017 03:27 pm TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid Today is Sunday April 16, 2017. This is the 106th day of the year, there are 259 days left. On this day... Weather data after 1990 is PARTIAL. For more current weather history, go to the National Climate Data Center website at www.ncdc.noaa.gov In 1851 The famous "Lighthouse Storm" raged near Boston Harbor. Whole gales and gigantic waves destroyed Minot Light with its two keepers still inside. The storm resulted in great shipping losses and coastal erosion. In 1880 A tornado near Marshall MO carried the heavy timbers of an entire home a distance of twelve miles. In 1933 Franklin Lake NH was buried under 35 inches of snow. In 1960 A wind gust of 70 mph was measured at the Stapleton International Airport in Denver CO, their highest wind gust of record. In 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. In 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. In 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. In 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. In 2002 Several tornadoes struck the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area, with quite a bit of damage. Posted by VPost v1.7.081019 .