TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Sunday  September 30, 2012.   
    This is the 274th day of the year, there are 92 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       In 1959 Three tornadoes spawned by the remnants of Hurricane   
               Gracie killed 12 persons at Ivy VA.    
       In 1970 A nineteen month drought in southern California came to   
               a climax.  The drought, which made brush and buildings   
               tinder dry, set up the worst fire conditions in   
               California history as hot Santa Ana winds sent the   
               temperature soaring to 105 degrees at Los Angeles, and to   
               97 degrees at San Diego.  During that last week of   
               September whole communities of interior San Diego County   
               were consumed by fire.  Half a million acres were burned,   
               and the fires caused 50 million dollars damage.   
       In 1976 Hurricane Liza, with peak winds of 130 mph, sideswiped   
               the southeast coast of Mexico's Baja California.   
       In 1977 The temperature at Wichita Falls TX soared to 108 degrees   
               to establish a record for September.   
       In 1986 Thunderstorms, which had inundated northern sections of   
               Oklahoma with heavy rain, temporarily shifted southward   
               producing 4 to 8 inches rains from Shawnee to Stilwell.   
               Baseball size hail and 80 mph winds ripped through parts   
               of southeast Oklahoma City, and thunderstorm winds caused   
               more than half a million dollars damage at Shawnee.   
       In 1987 Afternoon thunderstorms in Michigan produced hail an inch   
               in diameter at Pinckney, and wind gusts to 68 mph at   
               Wyandotte.  A thunderstorm in northern Indiana produced   
               wet snow at South Bend.  Seven cities in the northwestern   
               U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date,   
               including readings of 98 degrees at Medford OR and 101   
               degrees at downtown Sacramento CA.   
       In 1988 Unseasonably warm weather prevailed over Florida, and in   
               the western U.S.  The afternoon high of 94 degrees at   
               Fort Myers FL was their tenth record high for the month.   
               Highs of 98 at Medford OR and 99 at Fresno CA were   
               records for the date, and the temperature at Borrego   
               Springs CA soared to 108 degrees.   
       In 1989 Thirteen cities reported record high temperatures for the   
               date, as readings soared into the upper 80s and 90s from   
               the Northern and Central High Plains Region to Minnesota.   
               Bismarck ND reported a record high of 95 degrees.   
               Broadus MT reached 97 degrees.  Afternoon thunderstorms   
               developing along a cold front produced wind gusts to 60   
               mph at Wendover UT.   
      
      
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