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Critical to Extremely Critical Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Excessive Rainfall Along the Central Gulf Coast

Damaging Santa Ana winds and very low humidity will result in Critical to Extremely Critical Fire Weather conditions through Wednesday across Southern California. Red Flag Warnings are in effect. Isolated severe thunderstorms will produce heavy to excessive rainfall and flash flooding along portions of the Gulf Coast into the Southeast. Read More >

Weather History - April 29th

Local and Regional Events:

April 29, 1942:

An estimated F3 tornado moved east through Marshall County, destroying almost every building on a farm northeast of Kidder. Barns were heavily damaged on two other farms. One person was reported killed, with five others injured.

 

U.S.A and Global Events for April 29th:

1910: The temperature at Kansas City MO soared to 95 degrees to establish a record for April. Four days earlier the afternoon high in Kansas City was 44 degrees following a record cold morning low of 34 degrees. 

 

1987: A storm off the southeast coast of Massachusetts blanketed southern New England with heavy snow on the 28 through the 29th. Totals of three inches at Boston, 11 inches at Milton, and 17 inches at Worcester Massachusetts were records for so late in the season. Princeton Massachusetts was buried under 25 inches of snow.

 

1991: Southeast Bangladesh was devastated by a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of approximately 155 mph in the during the late night hours. A 20-foot storm surge inundated the offshore islands south of Chittagong and pushed water from the Bay of Bengal inland for miles. Best estimated put the loss of life from this cyclone between 135,000 and 145,000 people. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.com.

 

​Click HERE for more This Day in Weather History from the Southeast Regional Climate Center.