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On This Day In Weather History - May 24
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1939	The temperature at the Municipal Airport soared from a morning low of 73 degrees to an afternoon high of 97 degrees. The high the previous day was 93 and the two helped make May 1939 the eighth warmest of record.
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1990	In Barton County, KS a 100 yard wide F3 tornado blew 88 rail cars off the tracks and stacked them 3 and 4 high. One survivor was sucked out of her truck said she was "airborne, trying to run but my feet would not touch the ground!"
1979	In the 1979 Memorial Tournament, Tom Watson shot a 69 in the second round in rain, freezing temperatures, and 30 mph winds in Dublin, OH. That was 10 strokes better than the average of the rest of the golfers that day. He continued to play well and won the tournament. He said he was used to it since he is from Kansas City.

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