MARCH 13TH HISTORIC WEATHER EVENTS 
...1907... A storm produced a record 5.22 inches of rain in 24 hours at 
Cincinnati OH. (12th-13th) (The Weather Channel) 
...1951... 
The state of Iowa experienced a record snowstorm. The storm buried 
Iowa City under 27 inches of snow. (David Ludlum) 
...1977... Baltimore MD received an inch of rain in eight minutes. 
(Sandra and Richard Sanders -1987) 
...1987... A winter storm produced heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada Range 
of California, and the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. Mount Rose NV received 18 
inches of new snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
...1988... 
Unseasonably cold weather prevailed from the Plateau Region to the Appalachians. 
Chadron NE, recently buried 33 inches of snow, was the cold spot in the nation 
with a low of 19 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) 
...1990...
A major outbreak of tornadoes occurred in the Midwest.  59 tornadoes touched down.  
A tornado rated F5 on the Fujita Scale tore through Hesston, Kansas, killed one 
person and did 20 million dollars in damage.  Another tornado formed close to 
the Hesston tornado while it was weakening and absorbed it.  This new tornado 
was also an F5 and killed one person in Gossel, Kansas.  A family of tornadoes 
up to F4 in intensity  tracked 124 miles through Nebraska.  In York County, 12 
farms were hit and 10,000 geese were killed.  This outbreak produced  the 
strongest tornadoes on record for so early in the season so far northwest in the 
United States.
...1993...
The "Great Super Storm Blizzard of '93" clobbered the eastern U.S. on this day 
and produced perhaps the largest swath of heavy snow ever recorded.  Heavy snow 
was driven to the Gulf Coast with 3 inches falling at Mobile.  13 inches 
blanketed Birmingham, Alabama to set not only a new 24 hour snowfall record for 
any month, but also records for maximum snow depth, maximum snow for a single 
storm, and maximum snow for a single month.  Tremendous snowfall amounts 
occurred in the Appalachians.  Mount Leconte in Tennessee recorded an incredible 
60 inches.  Mount Mitchell in North Carolina was not far behind with 50 inches.  
Practically every official weather station in West Virginia set a new 24 hour 
record snowfall.  Further to the north, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania measured 25 
inches, Albany, New York checked in with 27 inches, and Syracuse, New York was 
buried under 43 inches. The major population corridor from Washington, DC to 
Boston, Massachusetts was not spared this time as all the big cities got about a 
foot of snow before a changeover to rain.  A rather large amount of thunderstorm 
activity accompanied the heavy snow.  Winds to hurricane force in gusts were 
widespread.  Boston recorded a gust to 81 mph, the highest wind gust at the 
location since Hurricane Edna in 1954.  Numerous cities in the South and Mid 
Atlantic recorded their lowest barometric pressure ever as the storm bottomed 
out at 960 millibars (28.35 inches) over Chesapeake Bay.  208 people were killed 
by the storm and total damage was estimated at 6 billion dollars -- the 
costliest extratropical storm in history. This storm left behind up to 30 
inches of snow across far southeast Kentucky. The winds associated with the 
storm helped create 6 to 10 foot snow drifts in parts of Kentucky. At the 
Weather Service Office near Jackson, KY over 19 inches of snow fell on this date. 
...1999...
A big snowstorm dumped 19 inches of snow on Medford, Oklahoma.
...2001...
One inch diameter hail fell at Bonnieville, KY (Hart County) and Albany (Clinton 
County), KY. (NWS Louisville)