TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Saturday  April 16, 2016.   
    This is the 107th day of the year, there are 259 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 1851 The famous "Lighthouse Storm" raged near Boston Harbor.   
               Whole gales and gigantic waves destroyed Minot Light   
               with its two keepers still inside.  The storm resulted   
               in great shipping losses and coastal erosion.   
       In 1880 A tornado near Marshall MO carried the heavy timbers of an   
               entire home a distance of twelve miles.   
       In 1933 Franklin Lake NH was buried under 35 inches of snow.   
       In 1960 A wind gust of 70 mph was measured at the Stapleton   
               International Airport in Denver CO, their highest wind   
               gust of record.   
       In 1987 A slow moving storm system produced heavy rain over North   
               Carolina and the Middle Atlantic Coast States. More than six   
               inches of rain drenched parts of Virginia, and flooding in   
               Virginia claimed three lives.  Floodwaters along the James   
               River inundated parts of Richmond VA.   
       In 1988 A storm in the northeastern U.S. produced a foot of snow at   
               Pittsburg VT.  Severe thunderstorms produced baseball size   
               hail and spawned five tornadoes in the Southern High Plains   
               Region.   
       In 1989 A cold front, ushering sharply colder air into the north   
               central U.S., brought snow to parts of Montana and North   
               Dakota. At midday the temperature at Cutbank MT was just   
               22 degrees.   
       In 1990 Thunderstorms developing along a stationary front produced   
               large hail and damaging winds across Oklahoma, with 99   
               reports of large hail and damaging winds during the evening   
               and early nighttime hours.  Thunderstorms produced baseball   
               size hail south of Carney, and wind gusts to 100 mph in the   
               Oklahoma City area which swept away many Federal tax returns   
               being transported from a mail cart to a waiting truck about   
               the time of the midnight deadline.  Will Rogers Airport in   
               Oklahoma City reported a record wind gust of 92 mph.   
       In 2002 Several tornadoes struck the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex   
               area, with quite a bit of damage.   
      
      
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