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1910: The deadliest US avalanche swept a huge train in WA into a canyon, burying it under tons of snow. Over 100 people died.
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1975: The "Governor's Tornado" in Atlanta caused $56 million in damage to the governor's mansion & surrounding areas.
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1988: A tornado in MS carried an automobile 150 feet and threw it through the brick wall of an unoccupied retirement home.
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1966: A severe blizzard raged across Minnesota and North Dakota, paralyzing traffic for 3 days.
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1978 (1st-5th): Major flooding on the Salt and Verde River basins of Arizona washed away 8 Phoenix bridge approaches.
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1900: A chinook wind blowing down the Rockies through Havre, MT raised the temperature 31 degrees in just 3 minutes.
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1717: New England's "Great Snow" ended today, leaving 25' snow drifts in Dorcester, MA, a storm unmatched US records.
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1717: 1200 sheep were found buried under a snow drift for 4 weeks in Long Island Sound.  100 sheep were still alive.
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1987: Gale force winds gusting to 60 mph produced 15 foot waves on Lake Michigan causing more than $1 million damage in WI.
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1989: Residents of Hill City KS changed wardrobes when their morning low of 30 degrees rose to an afternoon high of 89 degrees.
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1986: Lightning struck a radio-transmitter tower in Arizona's Baxter County twice in 3 hours.
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1954: Dust from the Great Plains formed brown snow, hail and muddy rain in Wisconsin and Michigan.
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1989: Residents in the southern US got to view a once in a lifetime display of the "Northern Lights".
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1870: The term "blizzard" was used for the first time to describe a storm with heavy snow and high winds that struck MN & IA.
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1941: The most severe modern-day blizzard to hit North Dakota and Minnesota killed 71 Saturday night travelers.
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1987: 3 people were injured when softball size hail crashed through a shopping mall skylight in Del Rio, Texas.
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1990: 2 day flooding in the southeastern US claimed at least 22 lives and $100 million dollars damage in Alabama alone.
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1925: The "Tri-State Tornado," the deadliest in US history, claimed 695 lives, yet carried 16 students 150 yds unharmed.
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1935: Dust storms in CO covered the ground with up to 6' of dust, closing schools and suffocating 6 people and many livestock.
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1984: A severe 3 day winter storm left a thick coat of ice that stretched from eastern KS across northwestern MS into IA.
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1952: 31 tornadoes in the Midwest killed 343 people with $15 million damage, leaving in Judsonia, AR only an undamaged church.
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1920: A spectacular display of the Northern Lights was visible to Bradenton, FL, El Paso, TX and Fresno, CA.
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1913: (23rd-27th) Flooding of historic proportions throughout the Ohio River and its tributaries resulted in 467 deaths.
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1912: Kansas City began to recover from a 25" snowfall in 24 hours--nearly twice that of any previous storm in KC history.
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1948: Fawbush and Miller predicted a tornado that struck Tinker AFB in OK, introducing modern severe weather forecasting.
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1954: The temperature at Allaket, Alaska plummeted to 69 degrees below zero.
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1987: A second blizzard hit CO & KS, creating 30' drifts, closing roads for days and killing thousands of cattle.
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1935 (28th-31st): A severe dust storm lasting 84 hours blanketed Amarillo TX, leaving visibility near zero for one 6 hour period.
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1848 (29th-31st): An ice jam at the neck of Lake Erie and the Niagara River caused Niagara Falls to ease to a trickle.
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1899: A storm that buried Ruby, CO, an old abandoned mining town, under 141 inches of snow finally ended.
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1987: A dawn waterspout moved onshore Hatteras Island, NC from the Atlantic Ocean, causing $800,000 damage at Buxton.