TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Saturday  June 24, 2006.
 This is the 175th day of the year, there are 190 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1816 The cold weather of early June finally gave way to
            several days of 90 degree heat in Massachusetts,
            including a reading of 99 degrees at Salem.
    In 1924 Six men at a rock quarry south of Winston-Salem NC sought
            shelter from a thunderstorm.  The structure chosen
            contained a quantity of dynamite.  Lightning struck a
            nearby tree causing the dynamite to explode.  The men
            were killed instantly.
    In 1951 Twelve inches of hail broke windows and roofs, and dented
            automobiles, causing more than fourteen million dollars
            damage.  The storm plowed 200 miles from Kingmand County
            KS into Missouri, with the Wichita area hardest hit.  It
            was the most disastrous hailstorm of record for the state
            of Kansas.
    In 1952 Thunderstorms produced a swath of hail 60 miles long and
            3.5 miles wide through parts of Hand, Beadle, Kingsbury,
            Miner and Jerauld counties in South Dakota.  Poultry and
            livestock were killed, and many persons were injured.
            Hail ten inches in circumference was reported at Huron SD.
    In 1987 Thunderstorms spawned six tornadoes in eastern Colorado.
            Baseball size hail was reported near Yoder CO, and
            thunderstorm winds gusting to 92 mph derailed a train
            near Pratt KS.  The town of Gould OK was soaked with
            nearly an inch and a half of rain in just ten minutes.
    In 1988 Forty-three cities reported record high temperatures for
            the date.  Valentine NE reported an all-time record high
            of 110 degrees, and highs of 102 at Casper WY, 103 at
            Reno NV, and 106 at Winnemucca NV were records for the
            month of June.  Highs of 98 at Logan UT and 109 at Rapid
            City SD equalled June records.  Lightning killed twenty-
            one cows near Conway SC.
    In 1989 Thunderstorms developing along a warm front produced
            severe weather from Colorado and New Mexico to Kansas and
            Nebraska.  Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes, and
            produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Wood River NE, and hail
            three inches in diameter at Wheeler KS.
    In 2001 A freak hailstorm struck Denver, Colorado...with many
            reports of golfball sized hail. Many aircraft at the
            Denver International Airport suffered severe damage.
    In 2003 Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes raked the upper
            Midwest, with widespread damage. Buffalo, Lake, MN,
            about 70 miles west of Minneapolis, MN, was the hardest
            hit...with a church, a grain elevator, and several
            homes being damaged or destroyed. A 40 foot pine tree,
            with its roots still attached, was seen 'pirouetting
            in the sky, 200 feet in the air' from a tornado.
            Damage also occured in Manchester, South Dakota.

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