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Tracking Two Storms Impacting the Central and Eastern U.S. Through This Weekend

Two storm systems will track through the central and eastern U.S. through this weekend with areas of gusty winds, rain, and heavy snow. Severe thunderstorms are forecast Friday from the central Gulf Coast into parts of the lower Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. Heavy to excessive rainfall is forecast from the lower Mississippi River Valley to the Tennessee Valley which may bring flooding. Read More >

Weather History Archive

Weather History - June 9th

June 9th, 1957:

Southwest of Faulkton, one of four funnel clouds finally touched down and cut an unusual path to the northeast. The estimated F3 tornado reduced one home to "matchsticks and tidbits."

June 9th, 1968:

A brief F2 tornado moved northeast from 6 miles northeast of Britton, destroying barns and uprooting trees on three farms. The tornado picked up two cars and tossed them into a ditch. One person in a vehicle was hospitalized. Damage was estimated at $150,000 to property and another $80,000 to crops.

June 9th, 1972:

A steady flow of warm, moist air near the surface fed storms and anchored them against the Black Hills for six to eight hours. A flash flood killed 238 people in the Rapid City area after as much as fifteen inches of rain had fallen over the eastern Black Hills.