Lots of stuff for today!

• 1845: A tornado traveled 275 miles across Lake Ontario, NY and Lake Champlain in Vermont.
• 1926: A Hurricane which pounded Miami two days earlier strikes Pensacola, FL.
• 1983: The temperature in Yellowstone, Montana plunged to -6*F while San Francisco, California soared to 94*F.
• 1987: Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in Oklahoma and west Texas. In Oklahoma, a thunderstorm at Seiling produced three inches of rain in one hour, golf ball size hail, and wind gusts to 60 mph which collapsed a tent at the state fair injuring nine people.
• 1988: Showers and thunderstorms produced locally heavy rains in central Wyoming, and snow in some of the higher elevations. Casper WY reported 1.75 inches of rain in 24 hours, and a thunderstorm north of the Wild Horse Reservoir produced 1.90 inches of rain in just forty minutes.
• 2002: An F3 tornado strikes Indianapolis, Indiana prompting a tornado emergency (an issuance worse than a tornado warning). No deaths were reported although the tornado caused $156 million in damage.
• 2005: Hurricane Rita tracked through the Florida Straits and just south of the Florida Keys. Winds were sustained at tropical storm force at Key West, where peak winds gusted to 76 mph.