TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Thursday  November 15, 2012.   
    This is the 320th day of the year, there are 46 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       In 1900 A record lake-effect snowstorm at Watertown NY produced   
               45 inches in 24 hours.  The storm total was 49 inches.   
               (14th-15th)   
       In 1967 A surprise snow and ice coating paralyzed Boston during   
               the evening rush hour.   
       In 1987 Thunderstorms spawned twenty-two tornadoes in eastern   
               Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.  A tornado moving out   
               of northeastern Texas killed one person and injured   
               ninety-six others around Shreveport LA causing more than   
               five million dollars damage.  Tornadoes in Texas claimed   
               ten lives, and injured 191 persons.  A tornado caused   
               more than nineteen million dollars damage around   
               Palestine TX. Severe thunderstorms spawned 18 tornadoes in   
               Mississippi and seven in Georgia the next day, and   
               thunderstorms in southeastern Texas produced wind gusts   
               to 102 mph at Galveston, and wind gusts to 110 mph at Bay   
               City, killing one person; with a total of 49 tornadoes   
               in the south central U.S. in 2 days. The tornadoes claimed   
               11 lives, injured 303 persons, and caused more than seventy   
               million dollars damage. Lightning accompanied a blizzard   
               in WI, setting 3 separate destructive fires while snow blew.   
       In 1988 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Oklahoma   
               and northeastern Texas to northern Indiana and southern   
               Wisconsin from mid morning through the predawn hours of   
               the following day.  Thunderstorms spawned forty-four   
               tornadoes, including thirteen in Missouri, and there were   
               more than two hundred reports of large hail or damaging   
               winds. A tornado in central Arkansas hit Scott and Lonoke   
               killing five people, injuring sixty others, and causing   
               fifteen million dollars damage.  Another tornado hit   
               Southside AR killing one person, injuring ten others, and   
               causing more than two million dollars damage, and   
               a tornado near Clarksville AR injured nine persons and   
               caused more than two million dollars damage. A tornado   
               moving through the southwest part of Topeka KS injured   
               22 persons and caused nearly four million dollars damage.   
               A tornado near Jane MO killed one person and injured 12   
               others, and a tornado moving across the southwest part of   
               O'Fallon MO injured ten persons. Severe thunderstorms also   
               produced hail three and a half inches in diameter east of   
               Denison TX, and wind gusts to 85 mph at Kirksville MO.   
       In 1989 For the third year in a row there was a major outbreak of   
               severe weather on November 15th.  Thunderstorms   
               developing along a powerful cold front began to produce   
               severe weather in the Middle Mississippi Valley before   
               sunrise, and by early the next morning thunderstorms had   
               spawned seventeen tornadoes east of the Mississippi   
               River, with a total of 350 reports of severe weather.   
               There were one hundred reports of damaging winds in   
               Georgia, and five tornadoes, and there were another four   
               tornadoes in Alabama.  Hardest hit was Huntsville AL   
               where a violent tornado killed twenty-one persons,   
               injured 463 others, and caused one hundred million   
               dollars damage.  Thunderstorms in Kentucky produced hail   
               three inches in diameter in Grayson County, and wind   
               gusts to 110 mph at Flaherty. Thunderstorms produced   
               severe weather in the eastern U.S. through the morning and   
               afternoon hours.  Severe thunderstorms spawned twenty-three   
               tornadoes, and there were 164 reports of damaging winds.   
               There were fourteen tornadoes in New Jersey, central and   
               eastern New York, and eastern Pennsylvania, and 122 reports   
               of damaging winds.  A tornado at Coldenham NY killed nine   
               school children and injured eighteen others, and thunderstorm   
               winds gusted to 100 mph at Malvern PA. Thunderstorms spawned a   
               total of thirty-nine tornadoes east of the Great Plains in 2   
               days, and there 499 reports of large hail and damaging winds.   
      
      
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