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Ärende: Today In Weather History
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 TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Sunday  May 7, 2006.
 This is the 127th day of the year, there are 238 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1840 A powerful tornado wrecked many boats at the Natchez
            Landing in Mississippi, then plowed through the city on
            the bluff.  The tornado killed 317 persons, and caused a
            million dollars damage.  The force of the storm caused
            houses to burst open.  The tornado was the most deadly
            and destructive in early American history.
    In 1927 At least two monstrous tornadoes tracked 95 miles from near
            Aetna, Kansas, to SW of McPherson, Kansas.
    In 1961 A flash flood along Crooked Creek caused widespread damage
            at Harrison in northwest Arkansas.
    In 1964 The temperature at White Mountain 2, located in
            California, dipped to 15 degrees below zero to set a
            record for May for the continental U.S.
    In 1987 Thirty-one cities in the western U.S. reported record
            high temperatures for the date.  Highs of 93 degrees at
            Portland OR and San Jose CA were the warmest of record
            for so early in the season.  The high of 92 degrees at
            Quillayute WA was a record for the month of May.  The
            temperature at Sacramento CA hit 105 degrees.
    In 1988 A powerful storm in the north central U.S. produced up to
            three feet of snow in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming
            and the mountains of south central Montana.  Up to five
            inches of rain drenched central Montana in less than 24
            hours, and flash flooding in Wyoming caused a million
            dollars damage.    
    In 1989 Thirty-two cities in the central and eastern U.S.
            reported record low temperatures for the date, and
            24 hour snowfall totals of 7.2 inches at Buffalo NY and
            10.7 inches at Rochester NY were records for the month of
            May.  While northerly winds ushered unseasonably cold air
            into the eastern U.S., temperatures warmed rapidly in the
            Great Plains Region, reaching the 90s in Kansas.  The
            temperature at Manhattan KS soared from a low of 30
            degrees to a high of 88 degrees.    
    In 1990 Gale force winds lashed the northern and central Pacific
            coast.  A wind gust of 52 mph at Eureka CA established a
            record for the month of May.  Strong winds over
            northeastern Colorado, associated with a fast moving
            Pacific cold front, gusted to 63 mph at Peetz.  Snow
            developed over the northwest mountains of Wyoming late in
            the day, and Yellowstone National Park was whitened with
            6 to 14 inches.  
    In 2002 Severe flooding trapped a school bus in Waverly, IN...but,
            all on board were rescued. Areas of eastern WA got 17" of
            snow.
    In 2003 (7th-8th) The stormy severe weather week of 2003 continued,
            as tornadoes struck DeSoto, MO on the 7th, heavily damaging
            the high school, and Oklahoma City, OK on the 8th. The
            Oklahoma City tornado on the 8th was eerily similar to the
            path and damage of the May 3, 1999 F-5 tornado that ravaged
            the area.

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