Historical Weather Events

HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 9 July

From the files of the Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO and Intellicast

...1860...A hot blast of air in the middle of a sweltering summer in Kansas pushed the mercury up to 115 degrees at Fort Scott and Lawrence, while Topeka reached 112 degrees. (David Ludlum) (Intellicast)
...1882...Ice formed on the streets of Cheyenne, WY during a rare summer freeze. (David Ludlum)
...1936...The temperature hit an all-time record high of 106 degrees at the Central Park Observatory in New York City, a record which lasted until La Guardia Airport hit 107 degrees on 3 July 1966. (The Weather Channel)
...1950...The town of York, NE was deluged with 13.15 inches of rain in 24 hours to establish a record for the Cornhusker State. (The Weather Channel)
...1968...Columbus, MS received 15.68 inches of rain in 24 hours to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel)
...1979...Hurricane Bob was born in the Gulf of Mexico, becoming the first Atlantic Hurricane to be given a male name. (National Weather Service files)
...1982...A Boeing 727 crashed in Kenner, LA. Pan Am Flight 759 took off during a thunderstorm and flew into wind shear, probably a microburst. All 145 people on board died and 8 people on the ground were killed as the plane crashed into a neighborhood, destroying six homes. (National Weather Service files)
...1987...Thunderstorms produced severe weather in Michigan. A tornado near Munising, MI destroyed part of a commercial dog kennel, and one of the missing dogs was later found unharmed in a treetop half a mile away. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
Tucson, AZ reached 102 degrees and set the all-time record for number of consecutive days of 100-plus temperatures (33 days!). Remarkably, the low for the date was 68 degrees, which marked the fourth record breaking low in the previous 5 days. (Intellicast)
...1988...Twenty-three cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Alpena, MI and Buffalo, NY suffered through their sixth straight day of record heat. The percentage of total area in the country in the grips of severe to extreme drought reached 43 percent, the fourth highest total of record. The record of 61 percent occurred during the summer of 1934. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Morning thunderstorms produced very heavy rain in southern Lower Michigan and northern Indiana. Up to 5.6 inches of rain was reported in Berrien County, MI. Sioux Falls, SD reported a record high temperature of 108 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)