On this Day in Weather History......Big Hail. *In 1907 five tornadoes touched down in the Medicine Lodge Kansas area. Two of them hit the town, destroying nine homes and damaging 25 others. *IN 1947...twelve inches of rain fell in 42 minutes at Holt MO establishing a world rainfall record. *In 2003, a hailstone measuring 7 inches in diameter and 18.75 inches in circumference landed in Aurora, Nebraska. At the time, it was the largest hailstone in U.S. history, eclipsing the record set in Coffeyville on September 3, 1970 that had measured 5.7 inches in diameter and 17.5 inches in circumference. The Aurora, Nebraska Hailstone would lose the largest diameter title on July 23, 2010 when an 8-inch diameter meteorite landed in Vivian, South Dakota. The Vivian, South Dakota event also hails as king of heaviest hailstones on record when it tipped the scales at 1.94 pounds.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:42:56 +0000
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