The biggest snow we had last Winter was on Valentine’s Day. It wasn’t much…just 2.2 inches on Feb. 14, 2016. There was a trace on Valentine’s Day in 2015. The biggest February 14th snowfall in Indy records was in 2014, when 5.5 inches fell. (That was the last really nasty Winter around here.) February 14, […]
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Usually there isn’t much beyond Just The Facts when I’m researching weather records for my non-media biz, Weather History Research. That’s why this caught my eye and made me Chuckle Out Loud. Where, indeed. Have you already forgotten winter? No humidity whining! (He wrote while sitting in non-air-conditioned-Studio-B.)
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April 10, 1979 – A killer F4 tornado devastated southern portions of Wichita Falls Texas. It was part of the “Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak,” and was of the most destructive tornadoes in U.S. history. Over 3000 homes were destroyed and 20,000 people were left homeless. The death toll reached 60, and 1,740 were injured. […]
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April 9, 1897 – Five inches of snow fell in Indianapolis, the most ever in a 24-hour period in April. April 9, 1947 – A tornado struck Woodward, OK, during the late evening killing 95 persons and causing six million dollars damage. The tornado, one to two miles in width, and traveling at a speed […]
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April 8, 1973 – A severe storm brought high winds and heavy snow to Iowa. Belle Plain received 20 inches of snow, and 19 inches blanketed Dubuque, record totals for both locations for so late in the season. Snow drifts up to sixteen feet high closed highways. April 8, 1972 – South Bend’s coldest April […]
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April 7, 1983 – The last day of four days of snow in El Paso. They picked up 16.5 inches to set their April snowfall record. April 7, 1987 – International Falls, MN, with a record warm afternoon high of 71 degrees, was warmer than Miami FL, where the high was a record cool 66 […]
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April 3, 1974 – A “Super-Outbreak” of tornadoes ravaged the Midwest and the eastern U.S. It’s the largest known outbreak of tornadoes from one storm. Severe weather erupted early in the afternoon and continued through the next day. Severe thunderstorms spawned 148 tornadoes from Alabama to Michigan. The tornadoes killed 315, injured 6142 others, and […]
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April 2, 2006 – One Indiana Square in Downtown Indianapolis sustained damage from a severe thunderstorm. I remember it well. I had to interrupt “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Desperate Housewives” for updates on Channel 6, which generated more hate e-mail into the following day that anything else I ever did in almost 15 years on the […]
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April 1, 1912 – Weather reports from ships at sea began to be received by the Weather Bureau (today, the National Weather Service) on a regular basis. April 1, 1960 – The first weather satellite (TIROS 1) starts sending pictures back to earth. Nearly 20,000 satellite images would be transmitted back to earth during its […]
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March 31, 1890 – Saint Louis received 20 inches of snow in 24 hours. It was the worst snowstorm of record for Saint Louis. March 31, 2006 – An F2 tornado moves along a 17 mile path from Johnson into Shelby County Indiana. March 31, 2014 – Intense low pressure in the Northern Plains brought […]
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March 30, 1899 – A storm which buried Ruby, CO, under 141 inches of snow came to an end. Ruby was an old abandoned mining town on the Elk Mountain Range in the Crested Butte area. March 30, 1987 – A storm spread heavy snow across the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes Region. Cleveland […]
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March 29, 1848 – Niagara Falls eased to a trickle during the late afternoon, then was “silent” for 30 hours. An ice jam at the neck of Lake Erie and the Niagara River entrance between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York, was caused by wind, waves, and lake currents. March 29, 1921 – The […]
