2007: A thunderstorm produced an 83 mph wind gust at the Mojave Spaceport and also caused some flash flooding in the Mojave area.
2007: A heat wave began on 9.1 and ended on this day, with a monsoon flavor.
Temperatures exceeded 95° in the coasts and the mountains, 105° in the valleys, 110° in the Inland Empire and high deserts, and 115° in the lower deserts.
At least six deaths from heat related illnesses.
2006: A microburst hit northeast of Sun City.
Power lines and poles were knocked down.
Power outages resulted.
2003: Thunderstorms developed in the mountains and deserts starting on 9.2 and ending on this day.
Rain rates of more than one inch per hour occurred with many of the storms.
Roadways were flooded in the Lake Henshaw area, Palm Canyon near Palm Springs, Yucca Valley, Idyllwild, Santa Ysabel, Mt. Laguna and Borrego Springs.
2001: Thunderstorms developed in the mountains each day starting on 9.2 and ending on this day.
The moisture came from the remnants of Hurricane Flossie.
2.1" of rain fell in one hour at Lake Cuyamaca, causing flash floods and mud slides.
Flash floods and mud slides also occurred in the San Bernardino Mountains.
One boy was killed by lightning in Apple Valley.
One man was killed and one boy was injured by lightning at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.
Trees fell on a house in Beaumont.
Hail up to 0.5" in diameter was measured at Pine Valley.
1997: An evening thunderstorm unleashed heavy rain in the El Paso Mountains in Kern County.
4-1/2" of rain fell in an about an hour causing flash flooding that resulted in 4 cars being swept off of State Highway 14 nearby from a 12' wall of water.
100 motorists were also stranded.
1987: Authorities fought fire with fire by setting backfires around homes and roads near the eastern Shasta County community of Hat Creek in an effort to corral a 3,000-acre blaze east of Highway 89.
It was one of nearly 1,000 lightning-caused fires burning across the state.
1972: Hurricane Hyacinth moved as far west as 125° West before recurving to the northeast.
The remnants made landfall between Los Angeles and San Diego on this day with winds of 25 mph and rainfall of up to one inch in the mountains from 8.29 to 9.6.
This tropical cyclone holds the distinction of traveling the farthest west before recurving and making landfall in Southern California.
This occurred during the El Nino of 1972-73.
Only 0.44" was measured in San Diego.
On this day flash flooding resulted in closing Interstate 40 at Ludlow, east of Barstow, for two hours.
Railroads were damaged as well.
1955: Fresno had a high of 111°, tying the record high for the month last set on September 11, 1888. Bakersfield set it's€™ record high for the month of September, 112°.
1950: It was 109° in Victorville, the highest temperature on record for September.
1923: It was 40° in Santa Ana, the lowest temperature on record for September.
This also occurred on 9.9.1917 and on 9.26.1948.
Source: NWS Hanford & San Diego & Redding Record-Searchlight
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2007: A heat wave began on 9.1 and ended on this day, with a monsoon flavor.
Temperatures exceeded 95° in the coasts and the mountains, 105° in the valleys, 110° in the Inland Empire and high deserts, and 115° in the lower deserts.
At least six deaths from heat related illnesses.
2006: A microburst hit northeast of Sun City.
Power lines and poles were knocked down.
Power outages resulted.
2003: Thunderstorms developed in the mountains and deserts starting on 9.2 and ending on this day.
Rain rates of more than one inch per hour occurred with many of the storms.
Roadways were flooded in the Lake Henshaw area, Palm Canyon near Palm Springs, Yucca Valley, Idyllwild, Santa Ysabel, Mt. Laguna and Borrego Springs.
2001: Thunderstorms developed in the mountains each day starting on 9.2 and ending on this day.
The moisture came from the remnants of Hurricane Flossie.
2.1" of rain fell in one hour at Lake Cuyamaca, causing flash floods and mud slides.
Flash floods and mud slides also occurred in the San Bernardino Mountains.
One boy was killed by lightning in Apple Valley.
One man was killed and one boy was injured by lightning at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.
Trees fell on a house in Beaumont.
Hail up to 0.5" in diameter was measured at Pine Valley.
1997: An evening thunderstorm unleashed heavy rain in the El Paso Mountains in Kern County.
4-1/2" of rain fell in an about an hour causing flash flooding that resulted in 4 cars being swept off of State Highway 14 nearby from a 12' wall of water.
100 motorists were also stranded.
1987: Authorities fought fire with fire by setting backfires around homes and roads near the eastern Shasta County community of Hat Creek in an effort to corral a 3,000-acre blaze east of Highway 89.
It was one of nearly 1,000 lightning-caused fires burning across the state.
1972: Hurricane Hyacinth moved as far west as 125° West before recurving to the northeast.
The remnants made landfall between Los Angeles and San Diego on this day with winds of 25 mph and rainfall of up to one inch in the mountains from 8.29 to 9.6.
This tropical cyclone holds the distinction of traveling the farthest west before recurving and making landfall in Southern California.
This occurred during the El Nino of 1972-73.
Only 0.44" was measured in San Diego.
On this day flash flooding resulted in closing Interstate 40 at Ludlow, east of Barstow, for two hours.
Railroads were damaged as well.
1955: Fresno had a high of 111°, tying the record high for the month last set on September 11, 1888. Bakersfield set it's€™ record high for the month of September, 112°.
1950: It was 109° in Victorville, the highest temperature on record for September.
1923: It was 40° in Santa Ana, the lowest temperature on record for September.
This also occurred on 9.9.1917 and on 9.26.1948.
Source: NWS Hanford & San Diego & Redding Record-Searchlight
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Check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/californiadisasters/
Read my blog at http://eclecticarcania.blogspot.com/
My Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/derkimster
Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kim-noyes/9/3a1/2b8
Follow me on Twitter @DisasterKim
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