Weather on This Date - November 8

Entry posted by NorthGeorgiaWX November 8, 2018

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November 8, 1870
The first storm warning was issued by the U.S. Signal Corps Weather Service. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)

November 8, 1943
An early season snowstorm raged across eastern South Dakota and Minnesota into northern Wisconsin. The storm produced 22 inches of snow at Fairbult and Marshall MN, 20 inches at Redwood Falls MN, and 10.1 inches at Minneapolis. Drifts fifteen feet high were reported in Cottonwood County MN. The storm produced up to two feet of snow in South Dakota smothering a million Thanksgiving day turkeys. (6th-8th) (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)

November 8, 1953
Residents of New York City suffered through ten days of smog resulting in 200 deaths. (The Weather Channel)

November 8, 1966
The temperature in downtown San Francisco reached a November record of 86 degrees. (The Weather Channel)

November 8, 1987
Thunderstorms over Texas produced locally heavy rains in the Hill Country, with 3.50 inches reported at Lakeway, and 3.72 inches reported at Anderson Mill. Thunderstorms over Louisiana produced hail an inch in diameter at Clay and at Provencial. Blustery northwest winds, ushering cold air into western Kansas and into northwest Texas, gusted to 46 mph at Hill City KS. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

November 8, 1988
Fair weather prevailed across much of the nation for Election Day. Midland TX equaled their record for November with an afternoon high of 89 degrees, and the record high of 87 degrees at Roswell NM was their fifth in eight days. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

November 8, 1989
Afternoon and evening thunderstorms developing along and ahead of a cold front produced severe weather from northern Louisiana into central Georgia. Thunderstorms spawned three tornadoes, and there were sixty-four reports of large hail or damaging winds. A late afternoon thunderstorm in central Georgia spawned a tornado which killed one person and injured eight others at Pineview. Late afternoon thunderstorms in central Mississippi produced baseball size hail around Jackson, and wind gusts to 70 mph Walnut Grove. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

An F-2 tornado touched down in Wilcox County, damaged a peanut warehouse and then moved into a residential area where the twister destroyed 3 mobile homes, killed 1 person and injured 8 others. Property damage was estimated at $250,000. (NWS Atlanta)

November 8, 1996
An F-2 tornado touched down near Chester (Dodge County) blowing the tin roof off an older home and blowing a steeple off a church. The tornado also destroyed a double-wide mobile home in which a 7-year old girl was killed and six other family members were injured. The victims were found as far as 200 yards away from where the mobile home stood. The tornado then moved into Laurens County and destroyed 2 mobile homes near Dexter. No one was injured in Laurens County. (NWS Atlanta)

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