DATASTREME DAILY SUMMARY
Wednesday, 22 November 1999
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HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 22 November
From the files of the Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City,
MO and Intellicast
- ...1641...An observer at Boston, MA recorded a "great
tempest of wind and rain from the southeast all night, as fierce
as a hurricane, and thereupon followed the highest tide which
we have seen since our arrival here". (David Ludlum)
- ...1957...Extremely destructive Santa Ana winds blew from
Oxnard to San Diego and inland parts of southern California. The
high winds produced a 28,000 acre brush fire on a 40-mile front
west of Crystal Lake. People were ordered off streets in some
areas due to flying debris. (21st-22nd) (The Weather Channel)
- ...1987...Eight cities in the eastern U.S. reported record
low temperatures for the date. Elkins, WV, reported a low of 5
degrees above zero. Gale force winds continued along the Northern
Atlantic Coast. (The National Weather Summary)
- ...1988...Wet and windy weather prevailed across the western
U.S., with heavy snow in some of the higher elevations. Winds
gusted to 62 mph at Vedauwoo, WY, and reached 75 mph at Tillamook,
OR. Shelter Cove, CA was drenched with 4.37 inches of rain in
24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
- ...1989...Strong northerly winds produced squalls along the
shore of Lake Michigan, with heavy snow in extreme southeastern
Wisconsin. Milwaukee received nine inches of snow, and in Racine
County there were more than one hundred automobile accidents.
(The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
- ...1992...Forty five tornadoes touched down in the Tennessee
and Ohio Valleys. Georgia was hard hit with 2 F4, 1 F3 and 3 F2
storms which killed 6 people and injured 144. Indiana has a total
of 15 tornadoes on this day to set a record for an outbreak in
November and for the month of November. One, an F4 multiple vortex
type, cut a 22 mile path through extreme southeastern Indiana
and northern Kentucky. (Intellicast)
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