Subj : Todays Weather History
To   : ALL USERS
From : DARYL STOUT
Date : Sun Nov 15 2015 12:09 am

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

 Today is Sunday  November 15, 2015.
 This is the 319th day of the year, there are 46 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 1900 A record lake-effect snowstorm at Watertown NY produced
            45 inches in 24 hours.  The storm total was 49 inches.
            (14th-15th)
    In 1967 A surprise snow and ice coating paralyzed Boston during
            the evening rush hour.
    In 1987 Thunderstorms spawned twenty-two tornadoes in eastern
            Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.  A tornado moving out
            of northeastern Texas killed one person and injured
            ninety-six others around Shreveport LA causing more than
            five million dollars damage.  Tornadoes in Texas claimed
            ten lives, and injured 191 persons.  A tornado caused
            more than nineteen million dollars damage around
            Palestine TX. Severe thunderstorms spawned 18 tornadoes in
            Mississippi and seven in Georgia the next day, and
            thunderstorms in southeastern Texas produced wind gusts
            to 102 mph at Galveston, and wind gusts to 110 mph at Bay
            City, killing one person; with a total of 49 tornadoes
            in the south central U.S. in 2 days. The tornadoes claimed
            11 lives, injured 303 persons, and caused more than seventy
            million dollars damage. Lightning accompanied a blizzard
            in WI, setting 3 separate destructive fires while snow blew.
    In 1988 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Oklahoma
            and northeastern Texas to northern Indiana and southern
            Wisconsin from mid morning through the predawn hours of
            the following day.  Thunderstorms spawned forty-four
            tornadoes, including thirteen in Missouri, and there were
            more than two hundred reports of large hail or damaging
            winds. A tornado in central Arkansas hit Scott and Lonoke
            killing five people, injuring sixty others, and causing
            fifteen million dollars damage.  Another tornado hit
            Southside AR killing one person, injuring ten others, and
            causing more than two million dollars damage, and
            a tornado near Clarksville AR injured nine persons and
            caused more than two million dollars damage. A tornado
            moving through the southwest part of Topeka KS injured
            22 persons and caused nearly four million dollars damage.
            A tornado near Jane MO killed one person and injured 12
            others, and a tornado moving across the southwest part of
            O'Fallon MO injured ten persons. Severe thunderstorms also
            produced hail three and a half inches in diameter east of
            Denison TX, and wind gusts to 85 mph at Kirksville MO.
    In 1989 For the third year in a row there was a major outbreak of
            severe weather on November 15th.  Thunderstorms
            developing along a powerful cold front began to produce
            severe weather in the Middle Mississippi Valley before
            sunrise, and by early the next morning thunderstorms had
            spawned seventeen tornadoes east of the Mississippi
            River, with a total of 350 reports of severe weather.
            There were one hundred reports of damaging winds in
            Georgia, and five tornadoes, and there were another four
            tornadoes in Alabama.  Hardest hit was Huntsville AL
            where a violent tornado killed twenty-one persons,
            injured 463 others, and caused one hundred million
            dollars damage.  Thunderstorms in Kentucky produced hail
            three inches in diameter in Grayson County, and wind
            gusts to 110 mph at Flaherty. Thunderstorms produced
            severe weather in the eastern U.S. through the morning and
            afternoon hours.  Severe thunderstorms spawned twenty-three
            tornadoes, and there were 164 reports of damaging winds.
            There were fourteen tornadoes in New Jersey, central and
            eastern New York, and eastern Pennsylvania, and 122 reports
            of damaging winds.  A tornado at Coldenham NY killed nine
            school children and injured eighteen others, and thunderstorm
            winds gusted to 100 mph at Malvern PA. Thunderstorms spawned a
            total of thirty-nine tornadoes east of the Great Plains in 2
            days, and there 499 reports of large hail and damaging winds.
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