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Hazardous Weather Impacts on the East and West Coasts

A cold front will continue to progress eastward today and Friday across the Eastern Seaboard with showers and thunderstorms bringing isolated heavy rainfall, gusty to damaging winds, and a possible tornado. A series of Pacific storms will begin to push into the Pacific Northwest today with impacts from heavy rain and snow continuing through the middle of next week. Read More >

February 12, 1880
Counties:  Lincoln
F-scale:  F2
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Time:  12:30pm
Narrative:  Coincidentally enough, a tornado hit Lincoln County on Abraham Lincoln's birthday.  Homes and other buildings were unroofed at Crab Orchard Springs.