DATASTREME DAILY SUMMARY
Thursday, 18 January 2001
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From the files of the Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City,
MO and Intellicast
- ...1857...A great "Cold Storm" swept across the
Atlantic Seaboard from North Carolina to Maine. Snowfall totals
of 12 inches were common, whole gales caused shipwrecks and damage
property on islands, and temperatures near zero prevailed from
Virginia northward. Great drifts of snow blocked transportation.
Richmond, VA was cut off from Washington, DC for a week. (David
Ludlum)
- ...1930...The record low temperature for the state of Oregon
was set at Senca when the thermometer dipped to 54 degrees below
zero. (Intellicast)
- ...1943...The record low temperature for the state of Oklahoma
was set at Watts when the mercury dipped to 27 degrees below zero.
The record low temperature for the state of Idaho was set at Island
Park Dam when the temperature fell to 60 degrees below zero. (Intellicast)
- ...1957...The record low temperature for the state of Massachusetts
was set at Birch Hill Dam when the mercury fell to 35 degrees
below zero. (Intellicast)
- ...1973...A baby was carried 300 to 400 yards by the strong
winds of a tornado at Corey, LA, yet received only minor injuries.
(The Weather Channel)
- ...1977...The record low temperature for the state of South
Carolina was set near Long Creek when the mercury plunged to 20
degrees below zero. (Intellicast)
- ...1982...A cold morning in the northeast with the temperature
at Princeton, NJ at 9 degrees below zero and Bridgehampton on
Long Island at 10 degrees below zero, close to an all-time record.
(Intellicast)
- ...1986...A Pacific storm dumped heavy rains over northwestern
Washington, with 6 to 9 inches of rain in the Seattle area. There
were 30 mudslides in the Seattle area alone. Major flooding occurred
along with tremendous land erosion. Land under a railroad track
south of Seattle gave way, derailing an Amtrak train with 28 people
injured as a result. (Intellicast)
- ...1987...A storm in the south central U.S. blanketed Oklahoma
City with eight inches of snow, their highest total since 1948.
Snowfall totals in Oklahoma ranged up to 13 inches at Gage, with
drifts five feet high. Roof collapses across the state resulted
in seven million dollars damage. (National Weather Summary) (Storm
Data)
- ...1988...A storm in the southwestern U.S. produced a 15 to
20 foot surf along the southern coast of California resulting
in more than fifty million dollars damage. A small tornado in
Orange County, CA lifted a baseball dugout fifteen feet into the
air and deposited it in the street, 150 yards away. The same storm
also produced 26 inches of snow at Duck Creek, UT. (National Weather
Summary) (Storm Data)
- ...1989...While fair and mild weather prevailed across the
forty-eight states, bitter cold gripped Alaska. The high temperature
for the day at Fairbanks was 30 degrees below zero. Thunderstorms
along the western Gulf coast drenched parts of southwest Houston
with more than four inches of rain. (National Weather Summary)
- ...1990...A winter storm produced heavy snow and high winds
across the southwestern U.S. Snowfall totals ranged up to 18 inches
at Lake Arrowhead, CA and Ashford, AZ. High winds in New Mexico
gusted to 100 mph east of Albuquerque. Unseasonably warm weather
continued from Texas to the Atlantic coast. Twenty cities reported
record high temperatures for the date including Roanoke, VA with
a reading of 71 degrees. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
- ...1993...Salt Lake City, UT recorded 0.5 inches of snow on
this day to push its seasonal snowfall to 76.0 inches to set a
new seasonal snowfall record. The old record was 75.6 inches set
back in the 1948-49 season. Total snowfall for the month at this
point stood at 45.1 inches which is a record for any month. The
old record was 41.9 inches set in 1977.
The blast of arctic air spread over the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.
Chicago's high temperature for the day reached only 11 degrees
below zero -- tying its record for the lowest daily maximum temperature
ever. Tower, MN dropped to 44 degrees below zero for a morning
low. Super intense snow squalls commenced in the lee of Lake Ontario
in New York State. Adams was buried under 36 inches of snow in
only 9 hours. Lowville picked up 25 inches for a total of 65 inches
on the ground.
A big 3 day snowstorm came to an end at Valdez, AK over which
time 57 inches of snow buried the city. (Intellicast)
- ...1994...The massive overrunning snowstorm that had buried
the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys the day before moved northeastward
and clobbered interior sections of New England and the mid-Atlantic.
Two day snowfall totals included 24 inches at Grafton, NH, 23
inches at Long Pond, PA, 22 inches at Patten, ME and Hanover,
NH, 20 inches at Eustis, ME, and 19 inches at Caribou, ME. 20
inches of new snow at Jay Peak, VT raised its snow cover to 91
inches. Wilkes-Barre Scranton, PA recorded 16.6 inches, which
brought its monthly snowfall to 36.9 inches -- its snowiest January
on record. (Intellicast)
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