Brian-
Here's the June history list.
Ed
JUNE HISTORIC WEATHER EVENTS
From records of Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City
(http://www.awc-kc.noaa.gov/wxfact/june.html) and
Intellicast 2 June 1996 (http://www.intellicast.com/almanac/jun/)
1 JUNE
...1812...Apple trees at New Haven, CT did not blossom until the first of June, the latest such occurrence during the period beginning in 1794.  Snow whitened the ground in Cleveland, OH and Rochester, NY. (David Ludlum)
...1903...A strong (F4) tornado just 50 to 75 yards in width killed many persons around the Gainesville, GA Cotton Mill.  The tornado strengthened and widened near the end of its four mile path, killing 40 persons at New Holland, GA. The death toll was 98
 and 180 were injured. Damage was set at $1 million  (The Weather Channel) (Intellicast)
...1980...A man from Falmouth, ME was struck by lightning restoring his eyesight.  The man had been blind and partially deaf since a truck accident in 1971. (The Weather Channel)
...1986...Severe thunderstorms produced a rather large amount of hail for the Northeastern U.S. across central and northern New England.  Hailstones up to 4 inches in diameter fell in Cumberland County in Maine.  Hail accumulated to a depth of 6 inches at
 Naples, ME.  (Intellicast)
...1987...Severe thunderstorms in the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Lower Ohio Valley produced wind gusts to 81 mph at Albert Lea Airport in southern Minnesota, and baseball size hail around Otterbein, IN, Sarona, WI, and Danville, IL.  Two inches of h
ail totally destroyed 5000 acres of corn and soybean north of Danville. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Thunderstorms drenched north central Texas with torrential rains, with more than 14 inches reported in Commanche County.  Afternoon thunderstorm in New Jersey and Pennsylvania produced wind gusts to 70 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm
Data)
...1989...Thunderstorms developing during the afternoon over the Southern Plains Region produced severe weather through the evening and the night, spawning nine tornadoes.  Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Alpine, TX, and baseball size hail
at Balmorhea, TX, Fluvanna, TX, and in Borden County, TX. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1990...A violent (F4) tornado hit Bakersville Valley in West Texas.  The tornado killed 2 people and injured 21. It also removed 300 feet of blacktop asphalt from a paved road and rolled two 90 ton oil tanks a distance of 3 miles and put them 600 feet
up the side of a mountain. Total damage was 35 million dollars.  (Intellicast)

2 JUNE
...1889...A great flood on the Potomac River in Washington, DC took out a span of Long Bridge, and flooded streets near the river.  The flood stage reached was not again equaled until 1936. (David Ludlum)
...1917...The temperature at Tribune, KS dipped to 30 degrees to establish a state record for the month of June. (The Weather Channel)
...1949...A tornado northeast of Alfalfa, OK circled an area one mile in radius. (The Weather Channel)
...1985...Lightning struck a house, broke a bedroom window, and jumped to a metal frame bed.  A man was killed but his wife was unharmed by the lightning.  (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes in West Texas and six tornadoes in Illinois.  Thunderstorms in Illinois produced wind gusts to 70 mph at McComb and Mattoon. Thunderstorms in southern Texas produced 5.5 inches of rain south of Seguin, and u
p to eight inches of rain in Washington County. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1988...Severe thunderstorms in Texas and Oklahoma produced hail more than three inches in diameter near Stillwater, OK, and softball size hail in Jones County of north central Texas.  Baseball size hail and 70 mph winds caused an estimated 100 million
dollars damage around Abilene, TX. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather across much of the south central U.S. through most of the day and night.  Thunderstorms spawned a dozen tornadoes, and there were 123 reports of large hail and damaging winds.  Thunderstorm winds gusted to 7
8 mph at Russell, KS, and baseball size hail was reported at Denver, CO, Cuthbert, TX, and in Reeves County, TX.
Afternoon thunderstorms in southern New England produced wind gusts to 120 mph at Fitchburg, MA causing five million dollars damage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1990...Sixty six tornadoes struck parts of the Midwest, the Ohio Valley, and the Great Lakes area with the majority of the tornadoes in the Ohio Valley. Seven of the tornadoes were rated F4 on the Fujita scale. Indiana was the hardest hit with 37 torna
does and 8 deaths. This outbreak was the largest outbreak since the Superoutbreak of  3-4 April 1974.  (Intellicast)

3 JUNE
...1860...The Great Comanche Tornado began its deadly trek near Cedar Rapids, IA, and ended its journey over Lake Michigan. 175 people lost their lives and 329 were injured. The town of Comanche, IA, on the Mississippi River, was completely destroyed. Tot
al damage was 945,000 dollars (note - 1860 dollars).  (Intellicast)
...1905...Seattle, WA received its heaviest ever 24 hour June rainstorm with 1.42 inches falling.  (Intellicast)
...1921...A cloudburst near Pikes Peak, CO killed 120 people.  Pueblo, CO was flooded by a twenty-five foot crest of the Arkansas River, killing 70 persons.  Fourteen inches of rain was reported at Boggs Flat, where a hard surface road through nearly leve
l country was washed out to a depth of seven feet. (The Weather Channel)
...1959...Thunderstorms in northwestern Kansas produced up to eighteen inches of hail near Salden during the early evening.  Crops were completely destroyed, and total damage from the storm was about half a million dollars.  Hail fell for a record eighty-
five minutes.  The temperature dropped from near 80 degrees prior to the storm to 38 degrees at the height of the storm. (David Ludlum)
...1980...A slow moving supercell thunderstorm produced 7 tornadoes in and around the Grand Island, NE area in less than 3 hours. There was one tornado of F4 intensity and 3 others were rated F3.  Five people were killed, 193 were injured, and total damag
e was 300 million dollars.  (Intellicast)
...1987...Six days of flooding in South Texas culminated with five to six inch rains from Bexar County to Bandera County, and five to nine inches rains in Gonzalez and Wilson Counties.  Total crop damage was estimated at 500 million dollars. (Storm Data)
(The National Weather Summary)
...1988...Early morning thunderstorms in southern Texas produced wind gusts to 86 mph at Port Isabel, and wind gusts to 83 mph at South Padre Island.  Unseasonably hot weather prevailed from the Southern Plateau Region to the Northern High Plains.  Fourte
en cities reported record high temperatures for the date. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms developing over the Southern Plains Region during the afternoon hours produced severe weather into the night.  Thunderstorms spawned eleven tornadoes, and there were 169 reports of large hail and damaging winds.  Thunderstorm winds
 gusted to 80 mph at Newcastle, OK and Wilson, OK.  Softball size hail was reported at Monahans, TX, Childress, TX and Groesbeck, TX.  Monahans, TX reported six million dollars damage.  Five inches of rain deluged Geronimo, OK. (The National Weather Summa
ry) (Storm Data)

4 JUNE
...1825...A hurricane struck Long Island, NY leveling trees and causing damage to ships.  The early season hurricane, which originated around Cuba, caused major damage along the Atlantic coast from Charleston, SC to New York City.  Many were lost at sea.
(David Ludlum)
...1860...Iowa's "Commanche Tornado", with wind speeds estimated in excess of 300 mph, was unquestionably one of the worst experienced by early settlers, with nearly a million dollars damage. (The Weather Channel)
...1982...A four day storm began over New England which produced up to 14 inches of rain in southern Connecticut breaching twenty-three dams and breaking two others.  Damage was estimated at more than 276 million dollars. (David Ludlum)
...1987...Early morning thunderstorms in south Texas produced 6.5 inches of rain at Hockheim, and five inches at Hallettsville, in just a few hours.  Afternoon thunderstorms in Virginia deluged northern Halifax County with 5.5 inches of rain in two hours.
  Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Dusty WA, and wind gusts to 88 mph at Swanquarter, NC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...A dozen cities in the eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Atlantic City, NJ with a reading of 40 degrees.  Fifteen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Glasg
ow, MT and Havre, MT with readings of 102 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Southern Plains Region and the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Southern Atlantic Coast Region during the day and into the night.  Just four tornadoes were reported, but there were 87 reports of larg
e hail and damaging winds. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

5 JUNE
...1859...Frost was reported from Iowa to New England.  The temperature dipped to 25 degrees in New York State, and up to two inches of snow blanketed Ohio.  The cold and snow damaged the wheat crop. (David Ludlum)
...1908...Helena, MT was deluged with 3.67 inches of rain to establish their all-time 24 hour rainfall record. (4th-5th) (The Weather Channel)
...1916...A tornado struck the town of Warren, AR killing 83 persons.  There were 125 deaths that day in a tornado outbreak across Missouri and Arkansas. (David Ludlum)
...1917...Residents near Topeka, KS reported disk-shaped hailstones six to ten inches in diameter, and two to three inches thick. The hailstorm was accompanied by a tornado. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...International Falls, MN dipped to a record low reading of 34 degrees during the morning.  Williston, ND and Glasgow, MT reported record warm afternoon highs of 94 degrees.  Major flooding was reported along the Guadelupe River in South Texas, wi
th the water level at Cuero reaching 18 feet above flood stage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Twenty cities in the south central and eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville, NC with a reading of 40 degrees.  Fifteen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date.  T
he high of 108 degrees at Glasgow, MT was a record for June.  (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Southern Atlantic Coast during the day and into the night.  Four tornadoes were reported, and there were 87 reports of large hail and damaging winds. (Storm Data) (Th
e National Weather Summary)
...1993...A strong, late season spring storm moved into California.  The 0.76 inches of rain at Los Angeles set a new daily rainfall record for June. Lake Gregory was deluged with 3.24 inches of rain in 24 hours and a foot of snow fell at the Mammoth Moun
tain ski area.  (Intellicast)

6 JUNE
...1816...The temperature reached 92 degrees at Salem, MA during an early heat wave, but then plunged 49 degrees in 24 hours to commence the famous "year without a summer". (David Ludlum)
...1894...One of the greatest floods in U.S. history occurred as the Williamette River overflowed to inundate half of the business district of Portland, OR. (David Ludlum)
...1975...A tornado, reportedly spinning backwards (spinning clockwise), was sighted near Alva, OK. (The Weather Channel)
...1977...Severe thunderstorms with large hail and winds to 100 mph caused one million dollars damage around Norfolk, VA.  A forty-two foot fishing boat capsized near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel drowning 13 of the 27 persons on board. (The Weather Ch
annel)
...1987...Thunderstorms in southern California produced one inch hail at Mount Pinos, and marble size hail at Palmdale.  Thunderstorms in southeastern Arizona produced heavy rain leaving some washes under four feet of water.  Six cities in the north centr
al U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the upper 90s. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Seventeen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Williston, ND with a reading of 104 degrees.  Thunderstorms in Florida produced wind gusts to 65 mph which damaged two mobile homes northwest of
 Melbourne injuring six people. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms developing during the late morning hours produced severe weather through the afternoon and night.  Thunderstorms spawned 13 tornadoes, and there were 154 reports of large hail and damaging winds.  A strong (F-3) tornado injured six
 persons at Lorenzo, TX, and thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph killed one person at Glasscock City, TX.  Softball size hail was reported at Lipscomb, TX and Glen Cove, TX. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1990...A strong (F3) tornado tore through Limon, CO, as 228 of the town's homes and trailers were either damaged or destroyed and nearly 80 percent of the central business district was wiped out.  Hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter damaged the roofs of
over 90 percent of the houses of Limon.  (Intellicast)

7 JUNE
...1816...A famous June snow occurred in the northeastern U.S.  Danville, VT reported drifts of snow and sleet twenty inches deep.  The Highlands were white all day, and snow flurries were observed as far south as Boston MA.  Waltham, MA reported a low te
mperature of 33 degrees and New Haven, CT had a low of 35 degrees (David Ludlum) (Intellicast)
...1972...Richmond, VA experienced its worst flood of record as rains from Hurricane Agnes pushed the water level at the city locks to a height of 36.5 feet, easily topping the previous record of thirty feet set in 1771. (The Weather Channel)
...1984...Forty two tornadoes touched down in the upper Midwest with 21 of them occurring in Iowa. A F4 tornado tracked 30 miles through Mahaska and Keokuk counties in Iowa, killing 2 people and injuring 51. The small town of Wright was practically wiped
out. Barneveld, WI was devastated shortly before midnight as a F5 tornado chewed up the town.  Ninety percent of the town was damaged or destroyed, 9 people were killed, and 197 were injured.  (Intellicast)
...1987...Thunderstorms in the Laramie Mountains of eastern Wyoming produced golf ball size hail, and up to five inches of rain in just one hour.  Half a dozen cities in the Upper Mississippi Valley reported record high temperatures for the date, includin
g La Crosse, WI with a reading of 97 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Snow whitened some of the mountains of northern California and northwestern Nevada.  Twenty-six cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Rapid City, SD with a reading of 104 degrees, and Mi
les City, MT with a high of 106 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather from southern Oklahoma and eastern Texas to northwestern Florida through the day and night.  Thunderstorms spawned 22 tornadoes, including a dozen in Louisiana, and there were 119 reports of large hail and d
amaging winds.  A strong (F-2) tornado at Gross Tete LA killed two persons, injured thirty others, and another strong (F-2) tornado injured 60 persons at Lobdell, LA.  Softball size hail was reported at Hillsboro TX. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm
Data)

8 JUNE
...1951...Two tornadoes, one rated F4 and the other F2, were caught on 16 mm film at Corn, OK. This was the first film ever taken of a tornado in the U.S.  (Intellicast)
...1953...The worst tornado of record for the state of Michigan killed 115 persons.  Flint, MI was hardest hit.  The tornado, half a mile in width, destroyed 200 homes on Coldwater Road killing entire families.  This tornado, rated F5 on the Fujita scale,
 was the last single tornado in the U.S. to kill over 100 people. (The Weather Channel)
...1966...A F5 tornado ripped right through the heart of the capitol city of Topeka, KS killing sixteen persons and causing 100 million dollars damage.  The tornado, which struck during the evening, cut a swath of near total destruction eight miles long a
nd four blocks wide, with the destruction of 820 homes.  This was the most destructive tornado of record up until that time and the first tornado to produce 100 million dollars in damage.  The tornado passed directly over Burnett's Mound, which legend had
 said protected Topeka from tornadoes.  So much for that legend.(David Ludlum) (Intellicast)
...1974...Severe thunderstorms spawned at least twenty-three tornadoes in Oklahoma during the afternoon and evening hours.  One of the tornadoes, rated F4 on the Fujita Scale, struck the town of Drumright killing fourteen persons and injuring 150 others.
 A F3 tornado damaged the National Weather Service office Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma City.  Two F3 tornadoes hit the city of Tulsa.  Thunderstorms in Tulsa County also produced as much as ten inches of rain.  Total damage from the storms was around thi
rty million dollars.  It was the worst natural disaster of record for Tulsa.  A tornado, rated F4, tracked 38 miles through Lyons, Osage, and Shawnee Counties in Kansas.  Emporia, KS suffered heavy damage with 6 people killed, 220 injured, and 20 million
dollars damage done. (Storm Data) (Intellicast)
...1987...Thunderstorms in the northeastern U.S. produced large hail and damaging winds in Vermont injuring two persons.  Thunderstorms in Ohio produced wind gusts to 75 mph near Akron, and deluged Pittsfield with two inches of rain in thirty minutes. (Th
e National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Overnight thunderstorms in Iowa produced 5.20 inches of rain at Coon Rapids.  Thunderstorms in the Florida Keys drenched Tavernier with 7.16 inches of rain in 24 hours.  Eleven cities in the central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the
 date. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Central Gulf Coast Region during the day and evening.  Severe thunderstorms spawned 17 tornadoes, including one which injured ten persons and caused a million dollars damage at Orange Beach, AL.  Ei
ght tornadoes struck southeastern Louisiana during the early morning hours. A strong (F2) tornado hit Baton Rouge and damaged 60 houses and 35 mobile homes.  Sixty people were injured.  Thunderstorm winds gusting to 90 mph killed three persons and injured
 four others at Mobile, AL.  Thunderstorms also deluged Walnut Hill, FL and Avalon Beach, FL with eight inches of rain.  (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) (Intellicast)
...1995...Classic supercell thunderstorms spawned 21 tornadoes in the north Texas Panhandle. Five of the tornadoes were rated F4 on the Fujita scale, one which tracked through the center of Pampa injuring 7 people and doing $30 million in damages.  The Pr
oject Vortex team (20 vehicles, including a state of the art truck-mounted Doppler radar, and 2 P3 aircraft) were all over the storms, collecting an incredible storm dynamics, structure, and environment data set, on the last day of the 2 year funded proje
ct no less! The team witnessed one of the F4 tornadoes near Allison, and said it was one of biggest and meanest appearing tornadoes they had ever seen.  (Intellicast)

9 JUNE
...1953...A tornado of at least F4 intensity hit Worcester, MA killing ninety persons and injured 1288.  The Northeastern states usually remain free of destructive tornadoes, however in this case a low pressure system, responsible for producing severe thu
nderstorms in Michigan and Ohio the previous day, brought severe weather to New Hampshire and central Massachusetts.  The tornado, up to a mile in width at times, tracked 46 miles through Worcester County.  It mangled steel towers built to withstand winds
 of 375 mph.  The northern part of the city of Worcester suffered extreme damage. Property damage exceeded 52 million dollars which until then was a record high for a single tornado. 4000 buildings were damaged or destroyed.  Debris from the tornado fell
in the Boston area, and adjacent Atlantic Ocean.  Spawned by a classic supercell thunderstorm with tops at 60,000 feet, this tornado was and still is the worst tornadic event in history of New England.  (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
...1966...Hurricane Alma made landfall over the eastern Florida Panhandle -- the earliest landfalling hurricane on the U.S. mainland on record. (Intellicast)
...1972...A cloudburst along the eastern slopes of the Black Hills of South Dakota produced as much as 14 inches of rain resulting in the Rapid City flash flood disaster.  The rains, which fell in about four hours time, caused the Canyon Lake Dam to colla
pse.  A wall of water swept through the city drowning 238 people, injuring 2932, and causing more than 100 million dollars property damage. (David Ludlum)
...1985...Sacramento, CA came under the grip of a heat wave, which, before it released its grip, would provide 8 consecutive days (June 9 to June 16) with temperatures above 100 degrees. Within this period, 6 consecutive days had high  temperatures of 105
 degrees or greater!  (Intellicast)
...1987...Lightning struck "Tire Mountain" near Denver, CO, destroying two million tires out of a huge pile of six million tires.  Thunderstorms spawned three tornadoes around Denver, and a man was killed at Conifer, CO when strong thunderstorm winds lift
ed up a porch and dropped it on him.  A thunderstorm near Compton, MD produced two inch hail, and high winds which destroyed twenty barns and ten houses injuring five persons. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1988...Thunderstorms produced severe weather from North Carolina to the Central Gulf Coast Region.  Hail in North Carolina caused more than five million dollars damage to property, and more than sixty million dollars damage to crops.  Hail three and a
half inches in diameter was reported at New Bern NC.  Thunderstorms in the Central High Plains produced eighteen inches of hail at Fountain CO.  The temperature at Del Rio, TX soared to an all-time record high of 112 degrees. (The National Weather Summary
) (Storm Data)
...1989...Severe weather abated for a date, however, showers and thunderstorms continued to drench the eastern U.S. with torrential rains.  Milton, FL was deluged with 15.47 inches in 24 hours.  Record heat and prolonged drought in south central Texas lef
t salt deposits on power lines and insulators near the coast, and when nighttime dew caused arcing, the city of Brownsville was plunged into darkness. (The National Weather Summary)
...1990...San Diego, CA set a new record rainfall amount on this date, as 0.38 inches of rain fell breaking the old record of 0.13 inches established in 1892. Moisture from the remains of Hurricane Boris was responsible for this rare rain event. (Intellic
ast)

10 JUNE
...1752...It is believed that this was the day Benjamin Franklin narrowly missed electrocution while flying a kite during a thunderstorm to determine if lightning is related to electricity. (David Ludlum)
...1957...A dust devil at North Yarmouth, ME lifted a 600 to 1000 pound chicken shelter into the air and carried it 25 feet.  It landed upright with only slight damage.  It is unknown whether any eggs were scrambled. (The Weather Channel)
...1958...A woman was sucked through the window of her home in El Dorado, KS by a powerful tornado, and was carried sixty feet away.  Beside her was found a broken phonograph record entitled "Stormy Weather". (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Thunderstorms produced 2 to 4 inch rains in southern Texas.  Two and a half inches of rain at Juno, TX caused flooding and closed a nearby highway.  Flooding on the northwest side of San Antonio claimed one life as a boy was swept into a culvert
.  Thunderstorms in the north central U.S. produced an inch and a half of small hail at Monida Pass, MT. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Three dozen cities, mostly in the eastern U.S., reported record low temperatures for the date, including Elkins, WV with a reading of 33 degrees.  Unseasonably hot weather continued in the Northern High Plains Region.  The record high of 105 deg
rees at Williston, ND was their seventh in eight days. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather through the day and night across much of the southern half of the Great Plains Region.  Thunderstorms spawned 14 tornadoes, and there were 142 reports of large hail and damaging winds.  Hail three inches in
diameter caused three millions dollars damage at Carlsbad, NM.  Hail four inches in diameter was reported at Estelline, TX and Stinnett, TX.  Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Odessa, TX. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1995...The temperature at Yakutat, AK soared to 87 degrees for its hottest temperature on record.  (Intellicast)

11 JUNE
...1842...A late season snowstorm struck New England.  Snow fell during the morning and early afternoon, accumulating to a depth of ten to twelve inches at Irasburg, VT.  Berlin, NH was blanketed with eleven inches of snow during the day.  Snow whitened t
he higher peaks of the Appalachians as far south as Maryland. (David Ludlum)
...1877...The temperature at Los Angeles, CA reached 112 degrees during a heat wave.  It would have been the all-time record for Los Angeles but official records did not begin until twenty days later. (The Weather Channel)
...1972...Heavy showers brought 1.64 inches of rain to Phoenix, AZ, a record for the month of June. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...South Texas endured another day of torrential rains.  Up to twelve inches of rain drenched Harris County, and nearly ten inches soaked Luce Bayou, mainly during the afternoon hours.  Thunderstorm rains left seven feet of water over Highway 189 i
n northern Val Verde County.  Flooding caused nine million dollars damage in Real County.  A thunderstorm at Perryton, TX produced golf ball size hail and 70 mph winds, and spawned a tornado which struck a mobile killing one person and injuring the other
four occupants. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Thirty cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including El Dorado, AR with a reading of 48 degrees.  Canaan Valley, WV and Thomas, WV dipped to 30 degrees.  Flagstaff, AZ was the cold spot in the na
tion with a low of 30 degrees.  Coolidge, just 180 miles away, was the hot spot in the nation with an afternoon high of 105 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central and southeastern U.S. during the day and night.  Thunderstorms spawned eleven tornadoes, including one which tore the roof off a restaurant at Bee Branch, AR injuring six persons.  The t
ornado tossed one car into the restaurant, and another car over it.  Temperatures soared into the 90s across much of Florida.  Lakeland reported a record high of 99 degrees for the second day in a row. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

12 JUNE
...1881...Severe thunderstorms spawned more than half a dozen tornadoes in the Lower Missouri Valley.  Five of the tornadoes touched down near Saint Joseph, MO.  In south central Kansas a tornado nearly wiped out the town of Floral.  Hail and high winds s
truck Iowa and southern Minnesota.  In Minnesota, Blue Earth City reported five inches of rain in one hour. (David Ludlum)
...1899...A killer F5 tornado ripped through New Richmond, WI.  Unfortunately, about 1000 extra people were in town for a circus.  One hundred seventeen people were killed people were killed and 200 were injured. Over 300 buildings were destroyed and a 30
00 pound safe was carried a full block. (Intellicast)
...1947...A heavy wet snow blanketed much of southern and central Wyoming, and gave many places their heaviest and latest snow of record.  Totals included 18.4 inches at Lander, 8.7 inches at Cheyenne, and 4.5 inches at Casper. (11th-12th) (The Weather Ch
annel)
...1969...Record late season snows covered parts of Montana.  Five inches was reported at Great Falls and east of Broadus.  Billings, MT tied their June record with lows of 32 degrees on the 12th and the 13th. (The Weather Channel)
...1983...The state of Utah was besieged by floods and mudslides.  Streets in downtown Salt Lake City were sandbagged and turned into rivers of relief.  The town of Thistle was completely inundated as a mudslide made a natural dam. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced softball size hail around Fremont and Ames, and 3.5 inches of rain in less than one hour.  Four and a half inches in less than an hour caused flooding around Ithica, NE.  A tornado destroyed a mobile home near
Broken Bow, NE injuring both occupants. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Fifteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville with a reading of 40 degrees.  Drought conditions continued to intensify across the eastern half of the nation.  Rainfall at Nashville, TN
 was running 12.5 inches below normal. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Tennessee Valley to the Central Appalachians in the afternoon and evening, and produced severe weather in Oklahoma and Texas during the evening and night.  Thunderstorms spawned ten tornadoes, and there
 were 164 reports of large hail and damaging winds.  Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 100 mph at Amarillo, TX, and wind gusts to 110 mph at Denton, TX.  Hail three inches in diameter was reported at Tucumcari, NM. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm
 Data)

13 JUNE
...1889...Forest fires in northern Wisconsin and northeast Minnesota were in the process of destroying millions of dollars of board feet of timber. (David Ludlum)
...1907...The temperature at Tamarack, CA dipped to 2 degrees above zero, the lowest reading of record for June for the U.S.  The high that day was 30 degrees.  Tamarack received 42 inches of snow between the 10th and the 13th.  On the 13th the snow depth
 was 130 inches. (The Weather Channel)
...1969...An unusual late season snowfall covered parts of South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Nebraska. Ten inches of snow fell at Deerfield, SD and five inches was measured at Great Falls, MT.  (Intellicast)
...1984...Severe thunderstorms struck Denver, CO metropolitan area deluging the city with five inches of rain, and leaving up to six feet of water in some places.  Softball size hail smashed windshields and ripped through metal cars. Hailstones as large a
s 4 inches in diameter fell. Homes and other buildings sustained around 200 million dollars in damage. Thousands of cars were battered with total damage to vehicles estimated at 150 million dollars. In some areas, golf-ball size hail fell continuously for
 30 to 40 minutes. Twenty people were injured by the giant hailstones. Snow plows had to be called out. Torrential rains as much as 4.75 inches in Lakewood clogged drains and caused widespread damage from flooding (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Fifteen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including International Falls MN with a reading of 92 degrees.  Mason City, IA and Waterloo, IA reported record highs of 100 degrees.  Thunderstorms in the
northeastern U.S. produced golf ball size hail around Hamilton Square, NJ, along with high winds which tore the roof off a hospital causing a million dollars damage.  Averill Park, NY was deluged with 1.64 inches of rain in fifteen minutes. (Storm Data) (
The National Weather Summary)
...1988...Afternoon thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Southern and Central Plains Region.  Forrest, NM was deluged with 5.5 inches of rain in ninety minutes.  Temperatures soared into the 90s across much of the eastern half of the nation, inclu
ding New England.  Northern Illinois reported a record twenty straight days of dry weather. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Southern Plains Region to the Carolinas during the day and night, and continued to drench parts of Texas and Oklahoma with heavy rain.  Oklahoma City reported 13.41 inches of rain for the first thir
teen days of the month, and Fort Worth, TX reported 29.56 inches for the year, a total more than 13 inches above normal.  Severe drought continued to rage across South Texas. (The National Weather Summary)

14 JUNE
...1903...The "Heppner Disaster" occurred in Oregon.  A cloudburst in the hills sent a flood down Willow Creek, and a twenty foot wall of water swept away a third of the town in minutes, killing 236 residents and causing 100 million dollars damage. (David
 Ludlum)
...1961...The temperature in Downtown San Francisco, CA soared to 106 degrees to establish an all-time record for that location. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Thirty-two cities in the central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date.  The high of 97 degrees at Flint, MI tied their record for June, and the high of 101 at Milwaukee, WI marked their first 100 degree reading in 32 years.  Thund
erstorms brought much needed rains to South Texas, drenching McAllen with 3.2 inches in one hour.  A thunderstorm soaked the town of Uncertain with 2.3 inches of rain in one hour. (The National Weather Summary)
...1988...Thirty cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather from the Central Gulf States to the Middle Atlantic Coast Region during the day and into the night.  There were 62 reports of large hail and damaging winds.  Thunderstorm win
ds caused 28 million dollars damage in Montgomery County, MD. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1990...Four inches of rain in about 75 minutes created a wall of water 10 to 30 feet high that devastated Shadyside, OH. Twenty four people were killed. One person reported ankle-deep water running down the side of a hill when he was seeking higher gro
und.  (Intellicast)

15 JUNE
...1662...A fast was held at Salem, MA with prayers for rain, and the Lord gave a speedy answer. (David Ludlum)
...1879...McKinney, ND received 7.7 inches of rain in 24 hours, a state record. (The Weather Channel)
...1896...The temperature at Fort Mojave, CA soared to 127 degrees, the hottest reading of record for June for the U.S.  The low that day was 97 degrees.  Morning lows of 100 degrees were reported on the 12th, 14th and 16th of the month. (The Weather Chan
nel)
...1953...Dust devils are usually rather benign weather phenomena, however, two boys were injured by one near Prescott, AZ.  One of the boys suffered a black eye, and the other boy had two vertebrae fractured by wind-blown debris. (The Weather Channel)
...1957...East Saint Louis, IL was deluged with 16.54 inches of rain in 24 hours, a record for the state of Illinois. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the northwestern U.S.  A tornado damaged five homes and destroyed a barn near Salmon, ID.  It lifted a metal shed 100 feet into the air, and deposited it 100 yards away. Hail
 an inch and a half in diameter caused ten million dollars damage to automobiles at Nampa, ID. (The National Weather Channel) (Storm Data)
...1988...Severe thunderstorms in the Central High Plains Region spawned five tornadoes around Denver, CO in just one hour.  A strong (F-3) tornado in southern Denver injured seven persons and caused ten million dollars damage.  Twenty-six cities in the e
astern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date.  The high of 97 degrees at Portland, ME was a record for June. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Southern and Middle Atlantic Coast States.  The thunderstorms spawned eight tornadoes, including strong (F-3) tornadoes which injured three persons at Mountville, PA and four persons at Columbia, PA
.  There were 111 reports of large hail and damaging winds, including wind gusts to 80 mph at Norfolk, VA and Hogback Mountain, SC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1992...The second largest two-day tornado outbreak in U.S. history commenced as a developing cumulus cloud broke through the cap in north central Kansas and exploded into a huge supercell thunderstorm. Between 4:15 and 8:35 PM CDT, this supercell produ
ced 39 tornadoes in north central Kansas, including 12 in Mitchell County and 9 in Osborne County. A farmer living south of Cawker City reported going to the basement in his farm home 5 different times and each time he came out of the basement, his farm h
ad additional damage. He also reported that at one time, he counted 3 tornadoes on the ground and 4 funnels in the air. Damage to property in Mitchell County exceeded $12 million.  (Intellicast)

16 JUNE
...1806...A total eclipse of the sun was viewed from southern California to Massachusetts. (David Ludlum)
...1917...The temperature soared to 124 degrees at Mecca, CA climaxing the most destructive heat wave of record in California history. (David Ludlum)
...1944...A tornado in Sioux City, IA traveled an odd course.  It spun in one place for about twenty minutes, made a U-turn, traveled southeast for about three miles, then traveled south, east, north, and finally east again. (The Weather Channel)
...1965...Thunderstorms dumped torrential rains along the east slopes and on the plains east of Denver, CO.  14 inches fell at both Palmer Lake and Larkspur and 12 inches at Castle Rock, resulting in a wall of water down the west and east branches of Plum
 Creek.  Damage to roads and bridges in Larkspur, Castle Rock, and Sedalia was extensive.  The flood then reached the South Platte River near Littleton and proceeded through Denver.  Flood waters spread to 1/2 mile or more in width and destroyed homes, tr
ailer courts, and businesses. the flood caused 230 million dollars damage and 8 deaths along the entire South Platte River basin. (Intellicast)
...1987...Temperatures soared above 100 degrees in the Upper Midwest, reaching 104 degrees at Lincoln, NE.  Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 96 mph at Valley City, ND, and baseball size hail near Red Oak, IA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data
)
...1988...After a brief respite, hot weather returned to the Northern High Plains Region.  Late night thunderstorms in Montana produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Polson and north of Lake Seeley. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Daytime thunderstorms produced severe weather from northern Florida to the Middle Atlantic Coast.  The thunderstorms spawned eight tornadoes, and there were 138 reports of large hail and damaging winds.  Thunderstorm winds gusting to 87 mph caus
ed twenty million dollars damage at Columbia, SC.  Strong thunderstorm winds killed one person at McLeansville, NC. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1992...Tornadoes continued to ravage the central U.S. with 65 reported on this day, the second highest daily total on record.  Twenty seven tornadoes touched down in Minnesota. A F5 tornado cut 16 mile path across Nobles and Murray counties, leveling h
alf of Chandler, killing one person, and doing $27 million in damages.  The two-day tornado total was 123, second only to the Superoutbreak of 3-4 April 1974.  (Intellicast)

17 JUNE
...1859...Hot Santa Ana winds in southern California roasted fruit on one side at Santa Barbara. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
...1882...A tornado traveled more than 200 miles across the state of Iowa killing 130 persons.  The tornado (estimated as an F5 tornado on the Fujita scale) touched down about ninety miles west of Grinnell, and struck the town and college around sunset, k
illing sixty persons, and causing more than half a million dollars damage.  Traveling at nearly 60 mph, the tornado hit Mount Pleasant about 11 PM causing another half a million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
...1965...Holly, CO was deluged with 11.08 inches of rain to establish a state 24 hour rainfall record. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S.  Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Lyons, and baseball size hail at Garden City.  The Edwards Aquifer, which supplies water to San Antonio TX, reached a recor
d level of 699.2 feet following a record 18.43 inches of rain in thirty days.  Torrential rains between the mid May and mid June sent 8.8 million acre feet of water down the rivers of southern Texas, the largest volume in 100 years of records. (The Nation
al Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in Georgia and the Carolinas.  Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Eden, NC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Unseasonably cool air, responsible for 37 record lows in the central U.S. on the 15th and 16th, including a low of 33 degrees at Valentine, NE on the 15th, overspread the eastern U.S. ending a three day siege of severe weather. (The National Wea
ther Summary)

18 JUNE
...1875...A severe coastal storm (or possible hurricane) struck the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia.  Eastport, ME reported wind gusts to 57 mph.  (David Ludlum)
...1958...Hailstones up to four inches in diameter killed livestock as a storm passed from Joliet to Belfry in Carbon County, MT. (The Weather Channel)
...1970...Wind and rain, and hail up to seven inches deep, caused more than five million dollars damage at Oberlin, KS. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...It was a hot day in the Upper Great Lakes Region.  Nine cities in Michigan and Wisconsin reported record high temperatures for the date.  The high of 90 degrees at Marquette, MI marked their third straight day of record heat.  Severe thunderstor
m in the Northern and Central High Plains Region spawned half a dozen tornadoes in Wyoming and Colorado.  Wheatridge, CO was deluged with 2.5 inches of rain in one hour. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Severe thunderstorms in eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota produced hail three inches in diameter and spawned four tornadoes in Steele County.  Thunderstorms also produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Clearbrook, MN. (The National Weather Su
mmary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in the southwestern U.S.  In Arizona, afternoon highs of 103 degrees at Winslow, 113 degrees at Tucson, and 115 degrees at Phoenix were records for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
...1991...Atlanta, GA set a new record for the amount of the rain in one hour. 3.47 inches fell between 6:52 and 7:52 PM EDT. (Intellicast)

19 JUNE
...1835...A tornado tore through the center of New Brunswick, NJ killing five persons and scattering debris as far as Manhattan Island.  The tornado provided the first opportunity for pioneer American meteorologists William Redfield and James Espy to stud
y firsthand the track of such a storm.  Smaller tornadoes were reported at Paterson, NJ, Kinderhook, NY, and Pine Plains, NY. (David Ludlum)
...1938...A cloudburst near Custer Creek, MT (near Miles City) caused a train wreck killing forty-eight persons.  An estimated four to seven inches of rain deluged the head of the creek that evening, and water flowing through the creek weakened the bridge
.  As a result, a locomotive and seven passenger cars plunged into the swollen creek.  One car, a tourist sleeper, was completely submerged. (David Ludlum)
...1972...Hurricane Agnes moved onshore near Cape San Blas, FL with wind gusts to 80 mph, and exited Maine on the 26th.  This category 1 hurricane joined up with an upper level disturbance and was responsible for 117 deaths, mainly due to flooding from No
rth Carolina to New York State, and total damage was estimated at more than three billion dollars.  Up to 19 inches of rain deluged western Schuylkill County, PA.  The rains of Hurricane Agnes resulted in one of the greatest natural disasters in U.S. hist
ory.  Agnes caused more damage than all other tropical cyclones in the previous six years combined (which included Celia and Camille). (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
...1987...It was a warm June day, with plenty of thunderstorms east of the Rockies.  Lightning knocked out power at Throckmorton, TX, and ignited an oil tank battery.  A woman in Knox City, TX was struck by lightning while in her car, and a man was struck
 by lightning near his home in Manatee County, FL.  Strong thunderstorm winds overturned several outhouses near Bixby, OK, but no injuries were reported. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Temperatures soared above 100 degrees in the central U.S. for Father's Day.  Fifteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Severe thunderstorms in Minnesota and Wisconsin produced softball size hail near River Falls, WI, and win
d gusts to 80 mph at Menomonie, WI. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Fourteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date as searing heat spread from the southwestern deserts into the High Plains Region.  Record highs included 98 degrees at Billings, MT, 107 degrees at Valentine, NE, and 112 degrees at
Tucson, AZ. (The National Weather Summary)
...1992...Two batches of severe thunderstorms, occurring within 6 hours of each other, dumped hailstones up to 4.5 inches in diameter across Sedgwick and surrounding counties in south-central Kansas.  Over 10,000 homes were damaged. The hail left wheat fi
elds in a near total loss.  Estimated property damage totaled $500 million with crop damage at $100 million. The thunderstorm episode ranks as one for the worst ever to hit Kansas. (Intellicast)

20 JUNE
...1682...A major tornado ripped through southwestern Connecticut, passing through Stratford, Milford, and New Haven, and then into Long Island Sound.  (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
...1921...Circle, MT received 11.5 inches of rain in 24 hours, a record for the state.  The town of Circle received a total of 16.79 inches of rain that month to establish a rainfall record for any town in Montana for any month of the year. (The Weather C
hannel)
...1928...A farmer near Greensburg, KS looked up into the heart of a tornado.  He described its walls as "rotating clouds lit with constant flashes of lightning and a strong gassy odor with a screaming, hissing sound". (The Weather Channel)
...1957...A violent tornado, rated F5 on the Fujita scale, tore through Fargo, ND.  Ten people were killed and 103 were injured.  Over 1300 homes were damaged or destroyed.  (Intellicast)
...1964...A squall line producing large hail swept through central Illinois.  A second squall line moved through during the early morning hours of the 21st, and a third one moved through shortly after dawn.  The series of hailstorms caused nine million do
llars damage.  Hailstones as large as grapefruit caused heavy damage to trees, utility lines, crops and buildings.  The thunderstorms also produced as much as five inches of rain in an eight hour period. (David Ludlum)
...1987...Thunderstorms prevailed east of the Rockies, producing severe weather in the Central High Plains Region.  Thunderstorms spawned four tornadoes in Colorado, and produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Goodland, KS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm
Data)
...1988...Thirty-eight cities in the central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date.  Afternoon highs of 97 degrees at Flint, MI and 104 degrees at Chicago, IL equaled records for the month of June.  Thunderstorms in North Dakota produced bas
eball size hail near Kief, and wind gusts to 100 mph near McGregor. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...An early morning thunderstorm produced wind gusts to 61 mph at Pierre, SD, and the hot thunderstorm winds raised the temperature from 86 degrees at midnight to 96 degrees by 1 AM, and 104 degrees by 2 AM.  Butte, MT and Yellowstone Park, WY repo
rted snow that afternoon. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1995...A supercell thunderstorm dumped unusually large hail for New England in Connecticut. Baseball size hail fell at Vernon, Manchester, Deep River, and Old Saybrook. At deep river, the large hail lasted for 20 minutes, causing hundreds of thousands
of dollars in damage. Some automobiles were totaled. In one historic building, 25 windows were broken, including a 100 year old curved window.  (Intellicast)

21 JUNE
...1886...A destructive hurricane hit the Apalachicola-Tallahassee area of Florida on the summer solstice. Extensive damage was done in Florida and throughout the southeast by this storm, which was the first hurricane of the year. Damage was due mainly to
 extremely high tides. (Intellicast)
...1893...On the first day of summer the temperature at Dodge City, KS soared to 106 degrees during the midst of a blistering heat wave.  The heat wave initiated a severe three year drought in the Central Plains Region.  Ironically, at about the same time
, heavy rains in the Mississippi Valley were causing the river to swell to its highest level of record at New Orleans, LA. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
...1919...Seven heavy coach cars of a moving train were picked up and thrown from the tracks by tornado winds.  A baggage car was set down thirty feet away from the rest of the train. (The Weather Channel)
...1954...A severe hailstorm struck Wichita, KS and vicinity causing nine million dollars damage. (The Weather Channel)
...1972...Phoenix, AZ was drenched with 1.64 inches of rain late on the 21st and early on the 22nd to easily surpass their previous June rainfall record of 0.95 inches.  The total for the month was 1.70 inches. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...A tornado destroyed 57 mobile homes at the Chateam Estates trailer park northwest of Detroit, MI killing one person and injuring six others.  Total damage was estimated at 1.7 million dollars.  Thunderstorms over Lower Michigan also drenched the
 Saginaw Valley with up to 4.5 inches of rain in less than six hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...The first full day of summer was a torrid one, with afternoon highs of 100 degrees or above reported from the Northern and Central Plains to the Ohio Valley.  Sixty-nine cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the
date.  The high of 110 degrees at Sioux Falls, SD was an all-time record for that location.  Highs of 103 degrees at Des Moines, IA, 102 degrees at Fort Wayne, IN, 109 degrees at Huron, SD, 108 degrees at Sioux City, IA, and 101 degrees at South Bend, IN
were records for June. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...The first day of summer heralded snow in the northern and central Rockies.  In Colorado, 15 inches of snow was reported at the summit of Mount Evans and, in Wyoming, 18 inches was reported at Dickensen Park, west of Lander.  Heavy rain continued
 in the eastern U.S.  Huntsville, AL reported a record 11.65 inches for the month, compared to the 0.17 inch rainfall total in June 1988. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

22 JUNE
...1919...A F5 tornado struck the town of Fergus Falls, MN. Fifty nine people were killed and 400 buildings were destroyed. Lumber was carried for 10 miles and a blank check was carried a distance of 60 miles.  (Intellicast)
...1947...Twelve inches of rain fell in forty-two minutes at Holt, MO establishing a world rainfall intensity record.  That record was tied on January 24-25, 1956, at the Kilauea Sugar Plantation in Hawaii, as their state record was established with 38 in
ches of rain in 24 hours. (The Weather Channel)
...1972...Hurricane Agnes (a category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale) deluged Pennsylvania and New York State with torrential rains resulting in the most costly flood in U.S. history.  Having made landfall near Apalachicola, Florida on the 19th,
Agnes moved northeast, joined up with an upper level disturbance, and unloaded anywhere from 10 to 20 inches of rain across the region.  In the Middle Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania, 24 hour rainfall amounts were generally 8 to 12 inches, with up to 1
9 inches in extreme southwestern Schuylkill County.  At Wilkes-Barre, PA the dike was breached destroying much of the town.  Total damage was $3.5 billion and 122 lives were lost.   (David Ludlum)
...1981...A young woman from Lubbock, TX was struck by lightning.  The bolt of lightning struck just above her right shoulder near her neck, and passed right to left through her body, tearing her warm-ups, causing her tennis shoes to explode, and lifting
her two feet into the air. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Thunderstorms in southern Texas produced wind gusts to 116 mph near Quemado.  Thunderstorms in New York State produced 5.01 inches of rain in 24 hours at Buffalo, an all-time record for that location, and produced an inch of rain at Bath, PA.  T
he temperature at Fairbanks, AK soared to 92 degrees, establishing a record for the date. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Sixty-five cities in twenty-four states reported record high temperatures for the date.  Tucson, AZ reported an all-time record high of 114 degrees, surpassing the previous record of 112 degrees established a day earlier.  Highs of 98 degrees at
 Pittsburgh, PA and 100 degrees at Baltimore, MD tied records for the month of June. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Record cold temperatures were reported in the High Plains Region.  Rapid City, SD reported a record low of 39 degrees, in sharp contrast to their record high of 102 degrees two days earlier, on the 20th. (The National Weather Summary)

23 JUNE
...1902...The temperature at Volcano Springs, CA soared to 129 degrees to set a June record high temperature for the U.S. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders)
...1944...Four tornadoes killed 154 persons, injured 966 and caused five million dollars damage in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland.  Several were thought to reach F4 intensity.  The tornadoes formed during the evening and moved southeast al
ong parallel paths flattening everything in their way.  The town of Shinnston, WV was leveled, with 100 people killed.  Until that time it was believed that damaging tornadoes did not travel across mountainous terrain. (David Ludlum) (Intellicast)
...1957...A few miles west of Fort Stockton, TX, softball size hail injured 21 persons unable to find shelter, mostly farm laborers.  Some livestock were killed. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...A massive hailstorm hit eastern Colorado causing an estimated 60 to 70 million dollars damage.  At La Junta, CO, hail as large as softballs caused 37 million dollars damage. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1988...Thirty-four cities reported record high temperatures for the date.  The reading of 90 degrees at Bluefield, WV equaled their record for the month of June.  The record high of 104 degrees at Billings, MT was their thirteenth of the month. (The Na
tional Weather Summary)
...1989...Six cities in the High Plains Region reported record low temperatures for the date, including Sheridan, WY with a reading of 38 degrees.  Showers and thunderstorms in the eastern U.S. deluged New Castle County, DE with 2.5 inches of rain in one
hour. (The National Weather Summary)

24 JUNE
...1816...The cold weather of early June finally gave way to several days of 90 degree heat in Massachusetts, including a reading of 99 degrees at Salem. (David Ludlum)
...1924...Six men at a rock quarry south of Winston-Salem, NC sought shelter from a thunderstorm.  The structure chosen contained a quantity of dynamite.  Lightning struck a near-by tree causing the dynamite to explode.  The men were killed instantly. (Th
e Weather Channel)
...1951...Twelve inches of hail broke windows and roofs, and dented automobiles, causing more than fourteen million dollars damage.  The storm plowed 200 miles from Kingmand County, KS into Missouri, with the Wichita area hardest hit.  It was the most dis
astrous hailstorm of record for the state of Kansas. (David Ludlum)
...1952...Thunderstorms produced a swath of hail 60 miles long and 3.5 miles wide through parts of Hand, Beadle, Kingsbury, Miner and Jerauld counties in South Dakota.  Poultry and livestock were killed, and many persons were injured.  Hail ten inches in
circumference was reported at Huron, SD. (The Weather Channel)
...1972...Rainier Park Ranger Station in Washington State had 4.4 inches of snow on this day. This turned out to be the last snowfall for the 1971-72 season and brought the seasonal total to 1122 inches -- a new single season snowfall record for the U.S.
(Intellicast)
...1975...A fairly innocuous looking thunderstorm at JFK airport in New York City produced a microburst that caused Eastern Airline 66 to crash 2400 feet short of the runway. One hundred twelve people were killed. The control tower, only 1.2 miles away, w
as never affected by the microburst as the outflow was held back by a sustained seabreeze front. (Intellicast)
...1987...Thunderstorms spawned six tornadoes in eastern Colorado.  Baseball size hail was reported near Yoder, CO, and thunderstorm winds gusting to 92 mph derailed a train near Pratt, KS.  The town of Gould, OK was soaked with nearly an inch and a half
of rain in just ten minutes. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Forty-three cities reported record high temperatures for the date.  Valentine, NE reported an all-time record high of 110 degrees, and highs of 102 degrees at Casper, WY, 103 degrees at Reno, NV, and 106 degrees at Winnemucca, NV were records fo
r the month of June.  Highs of 98 degrees at Logan, UT and 109 degrees at Rapid City, SD equaled June records.  Lightning killed twenty-one cows near Conway, SC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Thunderstorms developing along a warm front produced severe weather from Colorado and New Mexico to Kansas and Nebraska.  Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes, and produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Wood River, NE, and hail three inches in diamet
er at Wheeler, KS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

25 JUNE
...1749...A general fast was called on account of drought in Massachusetts.  It was the year of the famous dry spring in which fields and villages burned. (David Ludlum)
...1925...The mercury hit 101 degrees at Portland, OR, their earliest 100 degree reading of record. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders)
...1953...The temperature at Anchorage, AK soared to 86 degrees, their hottest reading of record. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Afternoon highs of 97 degrees at Miami, FL, 107 degrees at Medford, OR, and 111 degrees at Redding, CA were new records for the date.  It was the third of six straight days of record heat for Miami.  Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 70 mph a
t Austin, and gusts to 75 mph at Tulsa, OK. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Fifty-two cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date.  Highs of 100 degrees at Erie, PA and 104 degrees at Cleveland, OH established all- time records for those two locations.  Highs of 101 degrees at F
lint, MI, 105 degrees at Chicago, IL, and 106 degrees at Fort Wayne, IN equaled all-time records.  Thunderstorms in Idaho produced wind gusts to 100 mph west of Bliss and north of Crouch, injuring 29 persons. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Tropical depression Allison, the remnants of what was earlier Cosme (a hurricane over the Pacific Ocean which dissipated as it crossed northern Mexico), began to spread heavy rain into southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. (The National Weath
er Summary)

26 JUNE
...1888...Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave.  Daily average temperatures were above 80 degrees for fourteen straight days.  The heat wave was a sharp contrast to the severe blizzard in March of that year, which buried the city unde
r nearly two feet of snow. (David Ludlum)
...1977..."The Human Lightning Conductor", park ranger Roy C. Sullivan, was struck by lightning for the seventh time.  He was first hit in 1942, then again in 1970, 1972, 1973 and 1976. (The Weather Channel)
...1983...Record heat prevailed from Texas to Michigan.  Alpena, MI hit 98 degrees. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
...1985...A spectacular early morning waterspout developed at 5:20 AM (MST) from a stationary thunderstorm over the south end of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.  It was visible 20 miles away, and lasted four minutes. (The Weather Channel)
...1986...Hurricane Bonnie made landfall on the upper Texas coast. A wind gust to 98 mph occurred at Sea Rim State Park.  The town of Ace recorded 13 inches of rain. (Intellicast)
...1987...Hot weather prevailed in the Pacific Northwest.  Afternoon highs of 88 degrees at Seattle, WA, 103 degrees at Medford, OR, and 111 degrees at Redding, CA were records for the date.  Cloudy and cool weather prevailed in the northeastern U.S.  The
 high at Boston, MA was just 60 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
...1988...Thirteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date.  In Montana, the record high of 102 degrees at Billings, MT was their fifteenth of the month, and the high of 108 degrees at Glasgow, MT equaled their recor
d for June.  Thunderstorms in the Atlantic Coast Region produced wind gusts to 102 mph at Tall Timbers, MD. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Central Plains to the Middle Mississippi Valley.  There were 129 reports of severe weather during the day and night.  Thunderstorms in Kansas produced wind gusts to 90 mph at Liberal, and hail four
inches in diameter at Quinter.  Thunderstorms in Wisconsin spawned a tornado at Lake Delton injuring four persons.  Lightning struck and killed a woman at Junction City, KS who had gotten out of her car to photograph the lightning. (The National Weather S
ummary) (Storm Data)

27 JUNE
...1901...There was a rain of fish from the sky at Tiller's Ferry.  Hundreds of fish were swimming between cotton rows after a heavy shower. (David Ludlum)
...1915...The temperature at Fort Yukon, AK soared to 100 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel)
...1957...Hurricane Audrey smashed ashore at Cameron, LA drowning 381 persons in the storm tide, and causing 150 million dollars damage in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.  Audrey left only a brick courthouse and a cement-block icehouse standing at Camer
on, and when the waters settled in the town of Crede, only four buildings remained.  The powerful winds of Audrey tossed a fishing trawler weighing 78 tons onto an off-shore drilling platform.  Winds along the coast gusted to 105 mph, and oil rigs off the
 Louisiana coast reported wind gusts to 180 mph.  A storm surge greater than twelve feet inundated the Louisiana coast as much as 25 miles inland.  It was the deadliest June hurricane of record for the U.S. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Thunderstorms moving out of Nebraska produced severe weather in north central Kansas after midnight.  Thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph damaged more than fifty camping trailers at the state park campground at Lake Waconda injuring sixteen pe
rsons.  Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Beloit and Sylvan Grove. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...The afternoon high of 107 degrees at Bismarck, ND was a record for the month of June, and Pensacola, FL equaled their June record with a reading of 101 degrees.  Temperatures in the Great Lakes Region and the Ohio Valley dipped into the 40s. (Th
e National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Ohio Valley to western New England.  Thunderstorm spawned six tornadoes, and there were 98 reports of large hail and damaging winds.  Tropical Storm Allison spawned six tornadoes in Louisiana, injur
ing two persons at Hackberry.  Fort Polk, LA was drenched with 10.09 inches of rain in 36 hours, and 12.87 inches was reported at the Gorum Fire Tower in northern Louisiana. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1992...A supercell thunderstorm produced 5 tornadoes over Hutchinson, Carson, and Moore Counties in Texas, including a F4 which did 35.4 million dollars in damage as it tore through Fritch.  A resident of Fritch videotaped as the huge multiple vortex t
ornado approached, and kept the tape rolling until the tornado was practically on top of him.  He survived, with the tape intact.  The tape showed one of the most graphic and breathtaking displays of tornadic devastation ever recorded.  (Intellicast)

28 JUNE
...1788...The Battle of Monmouth in central New Jersey was fought in sweltering heat. The temperature was 96 degrees in the shade, and there were more casualties from the heat than from bullets. (David Ludlum)
...1892...The temperature at Orogrande, UT soared to 116 degrees to establish a record for the state. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders)
...1923...A massive tornado hit Sandusky, OH, then swept across Lake Erie to strike the town of Lorain.  The tornado killed 86 persons and caused twelve million dollars damage.  The tornado outbreak that day was the worst of record for the state of Ohio u
p until that time. (David Ludlum)
...1924...A massive F4 tornado hit Sandusky, OH, moved across Lake Erie, and then tore through Lorain, OH.  85 people were killed and total damage was 12.5 million dollars.  (Intellicast)
...1975...Lee Trevino and two other golfers are struck by lightning at the Western Open golf tournament in Oak Brook, IL. (The Weather Channel)
...1980...The temperature at Wichita Falls, TX soared to 117 degrees, their hottest reading of record.  Daily highs were 110 degrees or above between the 24th of June and the 3rd of July. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the north central U.S.  Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced wind gusts to 70 mph and baseball size hail at Arapahoe, and wind gusts to 80 mph along with baseball size hail at
Wolback and Belgrade.  Six cities in the Ohio Valley reported record low temperatures for the date, including Cincinnati, OH with a reading of 50 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Showers and thunderstorms brought much needed rains to parts of the central U.S.  Madison, WI received 1.67 inches of rain, a record for the date, and their first measurable rain since the Mother's Day tornado outbreak on the 8th of May. (The Na
tional Weather Summary)
...1989...Evening thunderstorms deluged Winnfield, LA with eleven inches of rain in four hours and fifteen minutes, and Baton Rouge, LA reported 11 inches of rain in two days.  Totals in west central Louisiana ranged up to 17 inches.  Thunderstorms produc
ed severe weather in the Northern High Plains.  Two inch hail broke windows in nearly every building at Comstock, NE.  Thunderstorms in North Dakota produced two inch hail at Killdeer, and golf ball size hail at Zap. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm
Data)
...1992...A slow moving tropical depression produced excessive rains across southwest Florida.  Four day totals ending on the 28th, ranged up to 25 inches in the Venice area, with a general 8 to 14 inches over Sarasota and Manatee counties.  Two deaths re
sulted from the flooding. (Intellicast)
...1994...Laughlin, NV reached 124 degrees, the state's all-time record high temperature. (Intellicast)

29 JUNE
...1931...The temperature at Monticello, FL hit 109 degrees to establish an all-time record for the state. (The Weather Channel)
...1954...Hurricane Alice dumped as much as 27 inches of rain on the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.  The Rio Grande River at Laredo reached a level 12.6 feet above its previous highest mark, and the roadway of the U.S. 90 bridge was thirty feet below t
he high water. (David Ludlum)
...1987...Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes Region, with reports of large hail and damaging winds most numerous in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.  Thunderstorms spawned four tornadoes in Michigan.  A tornado near Cl
are, MI was accompanied by softball size hail.  In Colorado, an untimely winter-like storm blanketed Mount Evans with six inches of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Alpena, MI reported a record low of 39 degrees while Jackson, MS equaled their record for the month of June with an afternoon high of 105 degrees.  Thunderstorms in the central U.S. soaked Springfield, MO with 3.62 inches of rain, a record for t
he date. (The National Weather Summary)
...1989...Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Southern and Central High Plains Region.  Thunderstorms in Colorado produced softball size hail at Kit Carson, while pea to marble size hail caused ten million dollars damage to crops in Philips Count
y, CO. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1994...The mercury hit a scorching 128 degrees at Lake Havasu, Arizona to set a new all-time record high temperature for the state.  The previous record was 127 degrees set at Parker on July 7, 1905.

30 JUNE
...1886...The second destructive hurricane in nine days hit the Apalachicola-Tallahassee area of Florida. (David Ludlum)
...1942...The temperature at Portland, OR hit 102 degrees, an all-time record for that location. (The Weather Channel)
...1972...The entire state of Pennsylvania was declared a disaster area as a result of the catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes, which claimed 48 lives, and caused 2.1 billion dollars damage. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...Hot weather prevailed in the Pacific Northwest, with readings above 100 degrees reported as far north as southern British Columbia.  Yakima, WA reported a record high of 100 degrees, while temperatures near the Washington coast hovered near 60 d
egrees all day.  Thunderstorms prevailed from southwest Texas to New England.  Thunderstorm winds gusting to 100 mph at Gettysburg, PA killed one person.  High winds and large hail caused more than five million dollars damage to property and crops in Lanc
aster County, PA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Thunderstorms in eastern Kansas drenched Worden with 12.21 inches of rain, and a wall of water two to four feet deep swept through Lone Star, KS flooding every home in the town.  Up to ten inches of rain was reported southeast of Callaway, NE.
Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Winfield KS.  Seventeen cities in the north central and northeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Duluth, MN with a reading of 36 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...The remains of tropical storm Allison dropped copious amounts of rain on Louisiana.  Winnfield, LA reported 22.52 inches of rain in three days, and more than thirty inches for the month, a record for June.  Shreveport received a record 17.11 inc
hes in June, with a total for the first six months of the year of 45.55 inches.  Thunderstorms also helped produce record rainfall totals for the month of June of 13.12 inches at Birmingham, AL, 14.66 inches at Oklahoma City, OK, 17.41 inches at Tallahass
ee, FL, 9.97 inches at Lynchburg, VA, and more than 10.25 inches at Pittsburgh, PA.  Pittsburgh had also experienced a record wet month of May. (The National Weather Summary) (Intellicast)

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