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Weather on This Date - August 10

8/10/2018

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August 10, 1856
 
The Isle Derniere (Last Island) disaster occurred off the coast of Louisiana. A storm tide drowned 140 vacationers as a five foot wave swept over Low Island during a hurricane. (The Weather Channel) 

August 10, 1882 
Sandusky OH noted a four minute snow squall during the morning, frost was reported in the suburbs of Chicago, and a killing frost was reported at Cresco IA. (The Weather Channel) 

August 10, 1898 
The temperature at Pendleton OR climbed all the way to 119 degrees at set a state record. (The Weather Channel) 

August 10, 1924 
Colorado's deadliest tornado killed a woman and nine children in one house along its twenty-mile path east southeast of Thurman. Mennonite men had left the farm to provide possible aid, as the 200-yard wide storm was first seen while far away.(The Weather Channel) 

August 10, 1936 
The temperature soared to 114 degrees at Plain Dealing, LA, and reached 120 degrees at Ozark AR, to establish record highs for those two states. (The Weather Channel) 

August 10, 1968
Lightning started a fire that destroyed a large manufacturing plant at Southern Field, now known as Jimmy Carter Regional Airport, near Americus (Sumter County). (NWS Atlanta)


August 10, 1980 
Hurricane Allen came ashore above Brownsville, TX, dropping fifteen inches of rain near San Antonio, and up to 20 inches in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Tidal flooding occurred along the South Texas coast. Hurricane Allen packed winds to 150 mph, and also spawned twenty-nine tornadoes. Total damage from the storm was estimated at 750 million dollars. (David Ludlum) 

August 10, 1987 
Unseasonably hot weather continued in the southeastern U.S. Ten cities in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina reported record high temperatures for the date. Macon GA hit 101 degrees. A tropical depression deluged southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana with torrential rains. (The National Weather Summary) 

August 10, 1988 
Citizens of Bluefield, WV, where the Chamber of Commerce provides free lemonade on days when the temperature warms into the 90s, were able to celebrate their record high of 90 degrees. Eight other cities also reported record high temperatures for the date,including Bismarck ND with a reading of 102 degrees.(The National Weather Summary) 

August 10, 1989 
Thirty-eight cities in the south central and southeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville NC with a reading of 48 degrees, and Victoria TX with a low of 63 degrees. Oklahoma City OK reported a record cool afternoon high of 71 degrees, and the daily high of 64 degrees at Raleigh NC established a record for August. In Arizona, a record sixty-four day streak of 100 degree days at Phoenix came to an end.(The National Weather Summary) 

August 10, 2003
A severe thunderstorm caused extensive damage in McIntyre (Wilkinson County) with trees blown down on roads, bridges, railroad tracks and power lines. Several homes were damaged when large trees fell on or through the roofs of the homes. Crews worked through much of the night to restore electrical and phone service and clean debris from the roads. (NWS Atlanta)


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