On this Day in Weather History...10 Aug In 1980, horrific Hurricane Allen came ashore just north of Brownsville Texas. Maintaining Category 5 status for the longest duration of any Atlantic hurricane, Allen became only the second hurricane to unleash winds that reached 190 mph. The Lower Rio Grande Valley was inundated by around 20 inches of rain, while 15 inches swamped San Antonio. Allen also spawned 29 tornadoes. One twister that struck Austin caused around $100 million damage, making it the costliest tropical cyclone spawned tornado on record. Overall 249 people were killed, mostly in Haiti and the United States. The hurricane caused around $1 billion of damage. In 1856, a disaster occurred on an island just off the Louisiana coast where 140 vacationers drowned when a 5 foot wave swept over the island during a hurricane. In 1893, there were 2 tornadoes north and east of Bucklin, Kansas. East of Bucklin, one barn was destroyed by an "exceedingly large funnel cloud." In 1996, one mile southeast of Ashland KS, lightning struck a home and caused extensive damage. South and southwest walls of the house were moved off the foundation and the carpet was singed. The floor in one room was forced 2 feet upward and several walls were cracked. In 2000,damaging winds from thunderstorms damaged buildings, broke off light poles and damaged trees in Dodge City. Gusts tore off part of a roof of a lumberyard and tossed it across Wyatt Earp Boulevard where it slammed into the side of a sheet metal company.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 10:16:50 +0000
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