| 1821 - Long Island Hurricane of 1821 struck western Long Island within what would be the modern day city limits of New York City. This is the only major hurricane which has struck part of the New York metro area within the last 200 years. The storm affected a densely populated area where weather observers were common. William Redfield of New Hampshire correctly noted as he traveled acorss his state that the storm appeared to have a rotary form, which was on contrast to populat thinking of the day that the wind field of storms was linear.
1967 - Huge hail and windstorm affects the Texas Panhandle. Winds gusted to over 100 mph and hail of golfball size fell over a large area. One hailstone measured 11 inches in diameter. Huge amount sof crop destruction.
1970 - Coffeyville, Kansas is struck by a hailstorm that dumps a hailstone weighing 1.67 pounds and measuring 17.5 inches in diameter, the biggest on record in the U.S.! Many hailstones were over 5 inches in circumference.
1979 - Hurricane David makes the first of two landfalls in the US just north of Palm Beach, Florida.
1998 - Hurricane Earl made landfall during the early morning hours near Panama City FL as a category 1 storm. Dying tropical systems often bring beneficial late summer rains to a parched Southeast, and that was the case with Earl, who brought drought-breaking rains to Georgia and the Carolinas.
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