Subj : Todays Weather History
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sat Jul 15 2017 12:11 am

 TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Saturday  July 15, 2017.
 This is the 196th day of the year, there are 169 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 1916 A dying South Atlantic Coast storm produced torrential
            rains in the southern Appalachian Mountains.  Altapass NC
            was drenched with more than 22 inches of rain, a 24 hour
            rainfall record for the state.  Flooding resulted in
            considerable damage, particularily to railroads.
    In 1954 The temperature at Balcony Falls VA soared to 110 degrees
            to establish a state record.
    In 1983 The Big Thompson Creek in Colorado flooded for the second
            time in seven years, claiming three lives, and filling
            the town of Estes Park with eight to ten feet of water.
    In 1987 Unseasonably cool weather spread into the south central
            and eastern U.S.  Fifteen cities reported record low
            temperatures for the date, including Houghton Lake MI
            with a reading of 37 degrees.  The high temperature for
            the date of 58 degrees at Flint MI was their coolest of
            record for July.  Thunderstorms spawned several tornadoes
            in Illinois and Indiana, injuring a cow near Donovan IL.
    In 1988 Twenty-six cities east of the Mississippi River reported
            record high temperatures for the date.  Charleston WV
            established an all-time record high with a reading of 103
            degrees.  Chicago IL reported a record fifth day of 100
            degree heat for the year.  A severe thunderstorm moving
            across Omaha NE and the Council Bluffs area of west
            central Iowa spawned three tornadoes which injured 88
            persons, and also produced high winds which injured 18
            others.  Winds at the Omaha Eppley Airport reached 92
            mph.  Damage from the storm was estimated at 43 million
            dollars.
    In 1989 Thunderstorms drenched Kansas City MO with 4.16 inches of
            rain, a record for the date.  Two and a half inches of
            rain deluged the city between Noon and 1 PM.  Afternoon
            thunderstorms in South Carolina deluged Williamstown with
            six inches of rain in ninety minutes, including four
            inches in little more than half an hour. 
    In 2000 An F-3 tornado, with winds of 186 mph, tore through a
            campground in Alberta province, Canada. At least 9 were
            killed, and over 130 were injured. Many trailers at the
            campground were thrown into a lake at the site. The
            tornado was on the ground for at least 30 minutes.
    In 2003 (7th-15th) After bringing heavy rain and tropical storm
            force winds as a strong tropical wave to the Leeward and
            Windward Islands on the 7th...then as a 50 mph Tropical
            Storm with heavy rains affecting Jamaica on the 9th, and
            the northeast Yucatan Peninsula on the 11th...Claudette
            became a hurricane on the 15th, making landfall near
            Matagorda Bay, Texas, with 80 mph winds, torrential rains,
            and several tornadoes. It was the first July landfalling
            tropical system on the Texas Coast since 1891.
    In 2012 (15th-16th) Extremely torrential rains caused severe
            flooding across the Kyushu province of southern Japan.
            In one part of Kumamoto, the equivalent of one months
            rain fell in the space of 8 hours a few days before.
            Numerous floods and mudslides have resulted, killing at
            least 28 people.


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