Weather History
For Thursday,July 28,2016
For Thursday,July 28,2016
1819
- A small but intense hurricane passed over Bay Saint Louis, MS. The
hurricane was considered the worst in fifty years. Few houses were left
standing either at Bay Saint Louis or at Pass Christian, and much of the
Mississippi coast was desolate following the storm. A U.S. cutter was
lost along with its thirty-nine crew members. The storm struck the same
area that was hit 150 years later by Hurricane Camille. (David Ludlum)
1930 - The temperature at Greensburg, KY, soared to 114 degrees to set a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1934 - The temperature at Grofino, ID, climbed to 118 degrees to establish a record for Idaho. (The Weather Channel)
1952
- A severe storm with hail up to an inch and a half in diameter broke
windows, ruined roofs, and stripped trees of leaves near Benson, AZ. The
temperature dropped to 37 degrees, as hail was three to four inches
deep, with drifts 46 inches high. (The Weather Channel)
1986
- Severe thunderstorms moving out of South Dakota across Iowa produce
high winds which derailed eighteen piggyback trailer cars of a westbound
freight train near Boone, IA. Sixteen of the cars fell 187 feet into
the Des Moines River. The thunderstorms also spawned a number of
tornadoes, including one which caused twenty-five to fifty million
dollars damage at Sloan, near Sioux City, IA. (Storm Data)
1987
- Thunderstorms in Nevada produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Searchlight,
reducing visibilities to near zero in blowing dust and sand.
Thunderstorms in Montana drenched Lonesome Lake with 3.78 inches of
rain. (The National Weather Summary)
1988
- Thunderstorms drenched Wilmington, NC, with 3.33 inches of rain,
bringing their monthly total 14.46 inches. Seven cities in Michigan and
Minnesota reported record high temperatures for the date. Marquette, MI,
hit 99 degrees, and the record high of 94 degrees at Flint MI was their
tenth of the month. (The National Weather Summary)
1989
- Afternoon thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in
Massachusetts. Early evening thunderstorms over Florida produced wind
gusts to 68 mph at Fort Myers, and evening thunderstorms in South Dakota
produced nearly two inches of rain in twenty minutes at Pierpoint. (The
National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
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