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Today MAY 4TH, 1812-A storm produced snow from Philadelphia to Maine. A foot of snow fell near Keene NH, and in Massachusetts, nine inches fell at Waltham, located near Boston.
 
MAY 4TH, 1917-A late season snowstorm in northwest Texas produced up to eight inches of snow in Potter County and Armstrong County.
 
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May 03 MAY 3RD, 1990-Onslaught of 2 days of heavy rainfall in north central and east Texas causes extensive flooding along the Trinity and Red Rivers and smaller creeks and rivers. In Dallas and Fort Worth areas hundreds are evacuated and 3 die in flooding.
 
MAY 3RD, 1978-Persistent thunderstorms caused widespread flooding in southeastern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Mississippi. Rainfall totals of ten to thirteen and a half inches were reported around New Orleans causing the worst flooding in thirty years. The water depth reached three to four feet in several hundred homes, and total property damage was estimated at one hundred million dollars.
 
May 02 MAY 2ND, 1929-Virginia's worst tornado disaster occurred. Six tornadoes, two of which were west of the Blue Mountains, killed 22 people. Twelve children and a teacher were killed at Rye Cove, in Scott County. Four schools were destroyed by the storms.
 
MAY 2ND, 1899-A storm buried Havre MT under 24.8 inches of snow, an all-time record for that location. The water equivalent of 2.48 inches was a record 24 hour total for the month of May.
 
May 01 MAY 1ST, 1854-The Connecticut River reached a level of nearly twenty-nine feet at Hartford (the highest level of record up until that time). The record height was reached in the midst of a great New England flood which followed sixty-six hours of steady rain.
 
MAY 1ST, 1954-The temperature at Polebridge MT dipped to 5 degrees below zero to esablish a state record for the month of May.
 
Apr 30 APRIL 30TH, 1990-Late afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in southern Virginia and the Carolinas, with tennis ball size hail reported southeast of Chesnee SC. Thunderstorms moving over the Chesapeake Bay flooded U.S. Highway 50 on Kent Island MD with several inches of water resulting in a seventeen-mile long traffic jam.
 
APRIL 30TH, 1852-A tornado, following the same track as the famous "Tri-state Tornado" of 1925, struck the town of New Harmony IND. Just sixteen persons were killed by the twister, due to the sparse settlement. The "Tri-state Tornado" killed 695 persons.
 
Apr 29 APRIL 29TH, 1905-The town of Taylor, in southeastern Texas, was deluged with 2.4 inches of rain in fifteen minutes.
 
APRIL 29TH, 1973-The Mississippi River reached a crest of 43.4 feet, breaking the prevous record of 42 feet established in 1785.
 
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