Lightning hit and killed 837 sheep bedded down for the night on top of Pine Canyon in Northwestern Utah.īoth the sheep and the earth were wet from the passing thunderstorm, causing the lightning's electrical discharge to move completely through the herd. The records aren't good enough to say whether any earlier storms that hit the USA would be Category 5 by today's standards. This was the first Category 5 storm to hit the U.S. Over the next 24 hours the cyclone would go through "bombogenesis" intensifying to a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds estimated at 160 mph with gusts exceeding 200 mph. The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane began intensifying from a tropical storm early in the day to a Category 2 by the end of this day. (31st - 1st)Ī trace of snow fell at Long Falls Dam, ME and a half inch was reported atop Mt. The town of Bloomington Michigan was deluged with 9.78 inches of rain in 24 hours to establish a state record. Hailstone drifts six feet deep were reported in Washington County, IA. His bulletins would be the first public weather forecasts.Ī forest fire driven by high winds burned down the town of Hinkley, MN killing 418 persons. Professor Cleveland Abbe of the Cincinnati Astronomical Society realized the value of plotting telegraph weather reports to forewarn about killer storm on the Great Lakes.Ībbe assembled a partnership with the Associated Press, Western Union and the remaining Smithsonian observers. (p.35 - 37 Washington Weather Book 2002 by Ambrose, Henry, Weiss) "The crash of thunder and the vividness of the lightning, whose blinding flashes seemed to be in our very midst,Ĭaused the uneasiness and disturbance among some of the bravest men." The Battle of Ox Hill (or Chantilly) is also known as the only major Civil War battle to have been fought during a storm.
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