TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid
Today is Thursday September 8, 2016.
This is the 252nd day of the year, there are 114 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 The greatest weather disaster in U.S. records occurred
when a hurricane struck Galveston TX. A tide fifteen
feet high washed over the island demolishing or carrying
away buildings, and drowning more than 6000 persons. The
hurricane destroyed more than 3600 houses, and total
damage was more than thirty million dollars. Winds to
120 mph, and a twenty foot storm surge accompanied the
hurricane. Following the storm, the surf was 300 feet
inland from the former water line. The hurricane claimed
another 1200 lives outside of the Galveston area. (8th-
9th)
In 1987 A tropical depression off the coast of South Carolina
brought another round of heavy rain to the Middle
Atlantic Coast Region and the Upper Ohio Valley. Showers
and thunderstorms produced extremely heavy rain in
eastern Pennsylvania, where flooding caused more than
55 million dollars damage across a seven county area. The
afternoon high of 97 degrees at Miami FL was a record for
the month of September.
In 1988 Eighteen cities in the south central and eastern U.S.
reported record low temperatures for the date, including
Roanoke VA with a reading of 42 degrees.
In 1989 Thunderstorms developing along a stationary front
produced very heavy rain in the central U.S. Thunder-
storms during the late morning and afternoon produced
5 to 9 inches of rain around Lincoln NE, with an
unofficial total of eleven inches near Holmes Park.
Up to six and a half inches of rain soaked northern and
western Iowa. Eighty to ninety percent of the homes in
Shenandoah IA, where 5.89 inches of rain was received,
reported basement flooding.
In 2012 Severe weather barreled across the northeast US and
mid-Atlantic as a powerful cold front brought heavy rain,
high winds, and at least one tornado into a beachfront
neighborhood of New York City. A watersport with 70 mph
winds became a tornado when it came ashore at Breezy
Point, a Queens neighborhood on the western edge of the
Rockaway Peninsula. The tornado spiraled a mixture of
sand and debris, which was largely flung onto a nearby
baseball field. A second confirmed tornado touched down
in Brooklyn...rated an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.
Tornado watches and warnings were in effect for much of
of the day across parts of New York, New Jersey, and
Connecticut. The severe weather even forced the U.S.
Open men's and women's singles tennis matches in
Flushing Meadows, to be rescheduled to the next day.
Elsewhere, 65,000 people were without power in the
Washington, DC area, and surrounding areas. And, twelve
people were injured as they tried to evacuate Show Place
Arena, 20 miles east of Washington, DC, in Maryland.
In 2014 Moisture from the remnants of Hurricane Norbert in the
Eastern Pacific basin, dropped 3.30 inches of rain at
Phoenix, AZ...the most rain in one day, since records began
in 1895.
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