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First recorded tornado in US Essex County, Massachusetts
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Earliest recorded hurricane in USA Jamestown, Virginia
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First recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" Southern Illinois
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A rare tornado hits Westchester County, New York.
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10 inches of snowfall in New England, USA; the "year without a summer" (due to volcano Krakatoa).
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6 feet (1.8 metres) of snow falls in Seattle, Washington in five days.
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17-inch diameter hailstones weighing 1.75 pounds fall in Dubuque, Iowa, USA.
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Great Blizzard of 1888 strikes northeast US.
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Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania, USA.
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6,000 killed when a hurricane and tidal wave destroy Galveston, Texas, most deadly in US history. [
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An avalanche of snow hits two trains stranded for seven days outside the Cascade Tunnel below Stevens Pass, near Wellington, Washington, USA, killing 96. Deadliest avalanche in US history.