This Date in Weather History for November 1,2012

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1570
The All Saints Day Flood killed an estimated 400,000 people in Western Europe.
1755

Lisbon, Portugal was a prosperous city when a massive 8.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the Portuguese coast on this date. The city's palaces and cathedrals were reduced to rubble. Fires raged for over a week, completing the destruction. 60,000 people died in what is Europe's worst earthquake in history. A huge tsunami swept across the entire North Atlantic, bringing a 12 foot tidal wave to the West Indies.

1846
87 pioneers were trapped by early snows in the Sierra Nevada that piled up to 5 feet deep with 30 to 40 foot drifts. Only 47 survivors lived to tell of the 'Donner Pass Tragedy'.
1861
The "Hatteras Hurricane" battered a Union fleet of ships attacking Carolina ports, sinking two of the ships, running several aground and scattering the rest. The storm also produced high tides and high winds in New York State and New England.
1870

United States Army Signal Corps observers at 24 sites around the country simultaneously made weather reports and transmitted them to Washington where a national weather map was drawn. This started the process of sending out weather reports by telegraph to metropolitan newspapers. This would be the beginning of our present day National Weather Service.

1889
The infamous "White Winter" began with unusually cold temperatures and tremendous snows in parts of Nevada from November 1889 - March 1890, devastating the state's cattle industry.
1950
Strong high pressure across the southeast ridged from the southern Plains to the Great Lakes and East Coast bringing record highs. Locations reporting all-time November record highs included: Baltimore, MD: 86°, Newark, NJ: 85°, Harrisburg, PA: 84°, Philadelphia, PA: 84°, New York (Central Park), NY: 84°, Winona, MN: 84° (also warmest state record for November), Williamsport, PA: 83°, Springfield, IL: 83°, New York (LaGuardia Airport), NY: 83-Tied°, South Bend, IN: 82°, Cleveland, OH: 82°, Erie, PA: 82°, Indianapolis, IN: 81°, Detroit, MI: 81°, Grand Rapids, MI: 81°, Allentown, PA: 81°, Avoca, PA: 81°, Rochester, NY: 81°, Syracuse, NY: 81°, Neillsville, WI: 81°, Peoria, IL: 81°-Tied, Platteville, WI: 80°, Columbus, OH: 80°-Tied, Toledo, OH: 80°-Tied, Fort Wayne, IN: 79°, Lansing, MI: 79°, Flint, MI: 79°-Tied, Grand Meadow: MN: 78°, Guttenberg, IA: 78°, Alma, WI: 78°, Mather, WI: 78°, Viroqua, WI: 78°, Alpena, MI: 77°, Owen, WI: 76°.
Other daily record highs included: Austin, TX: 88°, Austin (Bergstrom), TX: 88°, Macon, GA: 88°, Columbia, SC: 88°, Raleigh, NC: 88°, Corpus Christi, TX: 88°-Tied, Savannah, GA: 86°, Richmond, VA: 86°, Jacksonville, FL: 86°-Tied, Augusta, GA: 86°-Tied, Pensacola, FL: 85°, Columbus, GA: 85°, Charleston, SC: 85°, Norfolk, VA: 85°, Washington, D.C.: 85°, Wilmington, DE: 85°, Pana, IL: 84°, Huntington, WV: 84°, Greenville-Spartanburg, SC: 84°, Charlotte, NC: 84°, Atlantic City, NJ: 84°, Louisville, KY: 83°, Athens, GA: 83°, Asheville, NC: 83°, Lynchburg, VA: 83°, Roanoke, VA: 83°, Decatur, IL: 83°, Chattanooga, TN: 83°-Tied, Huntsville, AL: 83°-Tied, Paducah, KY: 82°, Chicago, IL: 81°, Oak Ridge, TN: 81°, Atlanta, GA: 81°, Evansville, IN: 80°, Pittsburgh, PA: 80°, Champaign, IL: 80°, Lexington, KY: 80°-Tied, Akron, OH: 79°, Dayton, OH: 79°, Youngstown, OH: 79°, Bristol, TN: 79°, Albany, NY: 78°, Mansfield, OH: 77°, Milwaukee, WI: 77°-Tied, Elkins, WV: 77°-Tied, Buffalo, NY: 76°, Worcester, MA: 71° and Burlington, VT: 71°.
1962
Palm Springs, CA soared to 102°, their hottest November temperature. Yuma, AZ and Astoria, OR set record highs for the date with 96° & 69° respectively.
1966
Santa Ana winds caused record heat in parts of California. Tragedy struck when fires caused by the winds claimed the lives of at least 16 firefighters.
Record highs for November included: Santa Ana, CA: 101°, Long Beach, CA: 101°, Los Angeles (LAX), CA: 101°, Downtown Los Angeles, CA: 100° and San Diego, CA: 97°-Tied.
Daily record highs included: Santa Maria, CA: 92°, Bakersfield, CA: 90°, Fresno, CA: 88°, Victorville, CA: 86°, San Francisco Airport, CA: 82° and Eureka, CA: 70°-Tied.
Caribou, ME set a November record high with 68°.
1968
A tornado touched down west of Winslow, AZ, but did little damage in an uninhabited area.
1982
This date began a five day heat wave across much of the east as high pressure anchored off the Carolina coast bringing a south to southwesterly flow. Record highs for the date included: Corpus Christi, TX: 88°-Tied, Meridian, MS: 86°, Sterling (Dulles Airport), VA: 84°, Huntsville, AL: 83°-Tied, Cincinnati, OH: 80°, Wallops Island, VA: 79°, New York (Kennedy Airport), NY: 77°, Milton, MA: 74°-Tied and Worcester, MA: 72°.
1987
Early morning thunderstorms in central Arizona produced hail an inch in diameter at Williams and Gila Bend, and drenched Payson with 1.86 inches of rain. Hannagan Meadows, AZ, was blanketed with 3 inches of snow.
Unseasonably warm weather prevailed across the Ohio Valley. Lexington, KY set a record for the month of November with 83°. Other daily record highs included: Memphis, TN: 84°, Paducah, KY: 83°, Louisville, KY: 83°-Tied, Oak Ridge, TN: 81°-Tied, Evansville, IN: 80°-Tied and Jackson, KY: 79°.
1988
Low pressure brought gales and locally heavy rain to the Northeast. The rainfall total of 1.46 inches at Newark, NJ was a record for the date. New York City was soaked with more than 2 inches of rain.
Record heat plagued parts of the west. The high temperature of 87° at Las Vegas, NV set the all-time warmest reading for November. Other daily records included: Pueblo, CO: 80°, Scottsbluff, NE: 78°, Denver, CO: 78°, Winslow, AZ: 77°, Boise, ID: 74°, Billings, MT: 72°-Tied, Salt Lake City, UT: 72°-Tied and Colorado Springs, CO: 71°-Tied.
1989
A strong cold front ushered snow and arctic air into the north central U.S. Snow whitened North Dakota and the Central Plains Region. Up to 5 inches of snow blanketed Denver, CO. Yellowstone Park, WY was the cold spot in the nation with a morning low of -4°.
1991
The great ocean storm that had battered the East Coast of the U.S. for the past 2 days underwent a remarkable transformation. Convection grew and wrapped tightly around the center and on satellite imagery an eye formed. An Air Force recon plane found a rather small but intense circulation near 39.5N/66.5W with a central pressure of 981 millibars or 28.97 inHg and sustained winds of 75 mph. Just a couple of days before, the large extratropical cyclone which contained former Hurricane Grace created havoc along the east coast. This type of evolution from a large extratropical low pressure to a small hurricane is rare but not unprecedented. The storm was never named, but it was the basis for the book and movie “The Perfect Storm”.
Smoke from West Virginia wildfires limited visibilities to an eighth of a mile at Charleston, WV. Most outdoor activities had to be cancelled.
From October 31st through November 2nd, a blizzard swept through southeastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota and northwest Iowa. Snow accumulated up to 16 inches in some areas. The snow combined with winds of 60 mph at times produced widespread blizzard conditions. Interstates 29 and 90 as well as most other roads east and south of Sioux Falls were closed as a result of the storm.
1993
A series of low pressure areas associated with the deep upper level trough which had been responsible for the record cold across the southern and central U.S. over the past few days dumped big early season snows over the Ohio Valley and the Northeast. 3-day totals included 19.5 inches at Ellenburg Depot, NY, 19 inches at Mount Mansfield, VT and Sabinsville, PA, and 18.5 inches at Stillwater Reservoir, NY. The 10.3 inches that fell at Mansfield, OH and 9 inches at Burlington, VT were the greatest snowfalls ever for so early in the season.
1997
Super Typhoon Keith became one of the most intense typhoons ever recorded in the western Pacific east of Guam. Satellite estimates gave Keith a T8.0 on the Dvorak scale, the highest the scale goes, which translates to sustained surface winds of at least 185 mph and a central pressure in the 870-875 millibar range or 25.69 to 25.84 inHg.
1999
An Alberta Clipper with record November winds of 54 mph gusting to 70 mph swept across Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada.
2000
November started with record warmth across much of the country. Memphis, TN set a November record high with 86° and Birmingham, AL tied their all-time November record high with 85°. Other daily records included: Tupelo, MS: 86°, Columbus, GA: 86°, Montgomery, AL: 86°-Tied, Birmingham, AL: 85°-Tied, Huntsville, AL: 84°, Galveston, TX: 82°-Tied and Moline, IL: 80°-Tied.
As road crews cleared snow from highways in western North Dakota, at least 3 tornadoes touched down 125 miles away in Bismarck, ND. The F1 twisters struck without warning in the early afternoon damaging 42 homes. Tornado watches and winter storm warnings were in effect for some locations in the Dakotas at the same time on this unusual weather day. 31.9 inches of snow fell at Lead, SD to establish a new 1-day snowfall record for November.
On this date through the 2nd, heavy and persistent rains across the eastern half or the windward side of the "Big Island" of Hawaii dumped 27.24 inches of rain at the Hilo Airport in 24-hours, breaking the previous 24-hour rainfall record.
2002
The earliest below zero temperature on record for Sidney, NE was recorded as they dropped to -2°.