Subj : Todays Weather History To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Tue May 30 2023 00:03:07 TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid Today is Tuesday May 30, 2023. This is the 150th day of the year, there are 215 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 1879 A major outbreak of severe weather occurred in Kansas and western Missouri. In Kansas, tornadoes killed eighteen persons at Delphos, and thirty persons at Irving. Two tornadoes struck the town of Irving within a few minutes time virtually wiping the small Kansas community off the map. The second tornado was perhaps two miles wide, and exhibited multiple vortices. In 1948 A railroad bed acting as a dam gave way during a flood along the Columbia River destroying the town of Vanport OR. The nearly 19,000 residents escaped with little more than the clothes on their backs. Twenty carloads of glass were needed in Denver CO to replace that destroyed by a severe hailstorm. In 1951 After a tornado passed east of Scotsbluff, Nebraska, a bean was found embedded 1" into an uncracked egg. In 1987 Unseasonably warm weather prevailed in the eastern U.S. Eighteen cities, from Virginia to Ohio and Michigan, reported record high temperatures for the date. After- noon highs of 97 degrees at Baltimore MD and Washington D.C., and 98 degrees at Newark NJ, were records for the date. In 1988 Memorial Day heralded heavy snow in some of the mountains and higher passes of Wyoming, closing roads in Yellowstone Park. McDonald Pass MT was blanketed with eight inches of snow, while the temperature at Miles City MT soared to 94 degrees. A "supercell" thunderstorm in west Texas produced baseball size hail in Bailey and Lamb counties, and up to five inches of rain in less than an hour. In 1989 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Upper Mississippi Valley to the Upper Ohio Valley during the day. A powerful (F-4) tornado injured three persons and caused a million dollars damage at New Providence IA. Baseball size hail was reported at Blue Earth MN. In 1990 Thunderstorms developing along a warm front spawned fourteen tornadoes in northeastern Texas during the late afternoon and evening hours. The thunderstorms also produced baseball size hail near Marshall, wind gusts to 77 mph at Commerce, and up to five inches of rain. Thunderstorms over southwestern Kansas produced up to six inches of rain. In 2003 The record tornadic swarm of May continued, with 25 more tornadoes in north and central Illinois. Lockport was was the hardest hit. In 2004 Over the Memorial Holiday Weekend, 25 states reported 1290 severe weather reports...805 of those were on Sunday alone. Of the reports, 196 were tornadoes (186 of those on May 30 alone), 699 wind damage, and the remainder hail or flooding. According to the National Weather Service, more than a dozen tornadoes had touched down in 10 Indiana counties. This was the third time in three years that powerful tornadoes have ripped across central and southern Indiana. Marengo in southern Indiana was hard hit, with at least one fatality, four injuries, and numerous homes damaged or destroyed. But Indiana was not alone in dealing with weather related problems. According to news reports several people in Kansas and Nebraska were injured by the weekend's tornadoes which also ripped through parts of those states. In 2013 A massive tornado roared through the Oklahoma City area, and adjacent areas...including areas of Moore that were hit by an EF-5 tornado just days earlier. Another tornado hit the St. Louis area...but, it went just north of the area. These were just 2 of the severe weather events that a large part of the country that day. Three storm chasers were part of the fatalities in Oklahoma...and three from The Weather Channel were injured by one of the rain wrapped tornadoes. The tornado that hit El Reno was upgraded to an EF-5. Doppler On Wheels recorded 296 mph winds (30th-31st). Plus, the tornado was 2.6 miles wide, making it the widest tornado ever documented. --- * Synchronet * The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .