| 1866 - Tornado destroys a toll bridge near Barnet VT.
1930 - Only official US hail death occurred on this date near Lubbock Texas. Farmer caught in open field was killed.
1975 - Tennis-ball size hail at Wernersville PA. Hail accumulated to a depth of 10 inches.
1980 - F3 Tornado ripped directly through the center of Kalamazoo MI, killing 5 and injuring 79. 1200 people were left homeless. An interesting thing occurred as the tornado passes directly over the American Bank, causing a pressure drop of 0.59 inches. The pressure drop in a tornado is fortunately spread over a few seconds, which give most buildings and homes time to equalize the air pressure. Unfortunately, a direct hit by tornado winds usually blows most homes apart, so the affect of the pressure drop is irrelevant.
1981 - Massive tornado destroys 90 percent of Emberson TX. Victims reported seeing a massive wall of debris instead of a funnel. A man in a bathtub was blown 1/4 of a mile and a 1500 pound recreational vehicle was blown 500 yards. 30 people were injured, but miraculously no one was killed.
1982 - 15-20 inches of snow near Ft. Collins CO.
1986 - Kentucky State Trooper car hit by lightning as he was on patrol near Carrolton. The strike burned a hole in trunk lid and rear tires. The trooper was unhurt.
1987 - 95 in Sioux City Iowa setting a record.
1990 - 4 to 8 inches of rain fell in New Orleans between 7am and noon.
1995 - Severe weather outbreak. Wind gust to 136 mph at Peru IN. 184 reports of severe weather including three dozen tornadoes.
1996 - Windstorms in Bangladesh killed between 500 and 1,000, injured more than 30,000, and left 100,000 homeless. More than 80 villages with 10,000 homes were destroyed. As many as 22 people died in one family. At least a portion of these windstorms was tornadic.
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