TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Wednesday  April 6, 2016.   
    This is the 97th day of the year, there are 269 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 1936 A tornado outbreak in the Deep South resulted in a total of   
               446 deaths and eighteen million dollars damage.  It was a   
               "Tale of Two Cities".  During the evening of the 5th, a   
               tornado hit Tupelo MS killing 216 persons, injuring 700   
               others, and causing three million dollars damage.  The next   
               morning the paths of two tornadoes met about 8:30 AM and cut   
               a swath four blocks wide through Gainesville GA killing 203   
               persons, injuring 934, and causing thirteen million dollars   
               damage.  Eight to ten feet of debris filled the streets   
               following the storm.  At least 70 persons died in the Cooper   
               Pants Factory, the greatest tornado toll of record for a   
               single building.   
       In 1982 12 inches of snow, with 3 foot drifts at Yankee Stadium in   
               New York City postponed the season opener between the   
               New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers.   
       In 1983 The temperature at Denver CO dipped to a record cold seven   
               degrees above zero.   
       In 1987 Rain and melting snow caused flooding from New England to   
               Ohio.  Flooding in the Merrimack Valley of Massacusetts was   
               the worst in fifty years, causing forty-two million dollars   
               damage.   
       In 1988 A powerful storm produced wind gusts to 75 mph around Chicago   
               IL, and wind gusts to 92 mph at Goshen IN.  The high winds   
               created twenty-five foot waves on Lake Michigan.   
       In 1989 Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in California. Afternoon   
               highs of 91 degrees in Downtown San Francisco, 93 degrees at   
               San Jose, 98 degrees at San Diego, 103 degrees at Santa   
               Maria, 104 degrees at Riverside, and 106 degrees in Downtown   
               Los Angeles established records for the month of April.   
       In 1990 Snow developed in the northeastern U.S. for the second time   
               in the month.  In Virginia, a heavy wet snow blanketed   
               northern and central sections of the Shenandoah Valley, and   
               eastern foothills, with up to 12 inches reported around   
               Harrisonburg.  Heavy snow also blanketed the high elevations   
               of West Virginia, with 10 inches reported at Snowshoe.   
               An inch of snow at Syracuse NY raised their total for the   
               winter season to a record-tying 161.3 inches.   
       In 2003 While the southern plains and the Gulf Coast were bearing the   
               brunt of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, a snowstorm left   
               a 1000 mile path of snow from the Plains to the East Coast.   
               More than a foot of wet snow fell across parts of Nebraska   
               and southern Minnesota, with 4 inches of snow falling in   
               Central Park in New York City. (6th-7th).   
      
      
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