TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Friday  April 1, 2016.   
    This is the 92nd day of the year, there are 274 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 1912 A tornado with incredible velocity ripped into downtown   
               Houston TX breaking the water table and giving the city   
               its first natural waterspout.   
       In 1923 Residents in the eastern U.S. awoke on "April Fool's Day"   
               to bitterly cold temperatures.  The mercury plunged to   
               34 degrees below zero at Bergland MI and to 16 degrees   
               in Georgia.   
       In 1946 The Scotch Cap Lighthouse on Unimak Island, Alaska, was hit   
               by 2 earthquakes in 27 minutes...then obliterated by a tidal   
               wave.   
       In 1987 Forty-five cities across the southeastern U.S. reported   
               record low temperatures for the date.  Lows of 37 degrees   
               at Apalachicola FL, 34 degrees at Jacksonville FL, 30   
               degrees at Macon GA, and 22 degrees at Knoxville TN, were   
               records for April. A tornado touched down briefly during   
               a snow squall on the south shore of White Fish Bay (six   
               miles northwest of Bay Mills WI).  A mobile home was   
               unroofed and insulation was sucked from its walls.   
       In 1988 A powerful spring storm produced 34 inches of snow at Rye,   
               CO, 22 inches at Timpas OK, 19 inches at Sharon Springs KS,   
               and up to 35 inches in New Mexico.  Severe thunderstorms   
               associated with the same storm spawned a tornado which   
               caused 2.5 million dollars damage at East Mountain TX.   
       In 1989 Up to six inches of snow blanketed the Adirondacks of eastern   
               New York State and the Saint Lawrence Valley of Vermont.   
               Up to a foot of snow blanketed the Colorado Rockies.   
       In 1990 Thunderstorms produced severe weather in Texas, from southern   
               Arkansas and northern Louisiana to southern Georgia, and from   
               northern South Carolina to the Upper Ohio Valley during the   
               day and evening. Thunderstorms spawned a tornado at Evergreen,   
                Alabama, and there were more than eighty reports of large   
                hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorms produced baseball size   
               hail north of Bastrop Louisiana, and produced damaging winds   
               which injured one person west of Meridian, Mississippi.   
      
      
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