Today in Weather History

1877: Major Arkansas River flood, Wichita, Kansas

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1916: Portland, Maine, had 4.12 inches of rain in 12 hours

1997: Sioux City, Iowa, set daily minimum and maximum temperature records within the same day--the low was 33 degrees F; the high was 91 degrees F

2007: 94 degrees F in Theilman, Minnesota

1896: Ten degrees below zero F at Climax, Colorado

1995: Grissom Air Force Base near Peru, Indiana, reported wind gusts of 136 miles per hour in a heavy thunderstorm

1982: The Colorado Rockies were struck by a late-season storm that dropped 46 inches of snow on Coal Creek Canyon, near Boulder

1865: A tornado hit Newark, New Jersey