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Weather on This Date - June 30

6/30/2018

"A close encounter 1 hour ago. It was a wild ride trying to escape the hail core. #wywx" Image by Kevin Palmer @krp234 on Twitter

June 30, 1886
The second destructive hurricane in nine days hit the Apalachicola-Tallahassee area. (David Ludlum)

June 30, 1942
The temperature at Portland, OR, hit 102 degrees, an all-time record for that location. (The Weather Channel)

June 30, 1972
The entire state of Pennsylvania was declared a disaster area as a result of the catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes, which claimed 48 lives, and caused 2.1 billion dollars damage. (The Weather Channel)
June 30, 1987
Hot weather prevailed in the Pacific Northwest, with readings above 100 degrees reported as far north as southern British Columbia. Yakima, WA, reported a record high of 100 degrees, while temperatures near the Washington coast hovered near 60 degrees all day. Thunderstorms prevailed from southwest Texas to New England. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph at Gettysburg, PA, killed one person. High winds and large hail caused more than five million dollars damage to property and crops in Lancaster County, PA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

June 30, 1988
Thunderstorms in eastern Kansas drenched Worden with 12.21 inches of rain, and a wall of water two to four feet deep swept through Lone Star, KS, flooding every home in the town. Up to ten inches of rain was reported southeast of Callaway, NE. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Winfield, KS. Seventeen cities in the north central and northeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Duluth, MN, with a reading of 36 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

June 30, 1989
Winnfield, LA, reported 22.52 inches of rain in three days, and more than thirty inches for the month, a record for June. Shreveport LA received a record 17.11 inches in June, with a total for the first six months of the year of 45.55 inches. Thunderstorms also helped produce record rainfall totals for the month of June of 13.12 inches at Birmingham AL, 14.66 inches at Oklahoma City, OK, 17.41 inches at Tallahassee FL, 9.97 inches at Lynchburg, VA, and more than 10.25 inches at Pittsburgh, PA. Pittsburgh had also experienced a record wet month of May. (The National Weather Summary)

June 30, 2012
A strong upper level ridge allowed for a historic heat wave to impact north and central Georgia June 29th and 30th. On the 30th, Atlanta reached 106°F, which broke the old all-time maximum temperature record of 105°F while Macon and Columbus tied their all-time record highs of 108°F and 106°F, respectively. (NWS Atlanta)

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