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In 1987, the second day of a tornado outbreak that started in East Texas struck with 18 more tornadoes in Mississippi and 7 in Georgia. The strongest were F2s. During the 2-day outbreak, there were 49 tornadoes that killed 11, injured 303, and caused $70 million damage. In 1959, the worst Arctic invasion to strike the United States in November began. A weather station 14 miles northeast of Lincoln, Montana, located 59 miles northwest of Helena, reported a temperature of 53 degrees below zero. That set an all-time record low for the United States for the month of November. Their high temperature that day was one degree above zero. && In 1987, a blizzard raged across Wyoming and Eastern Colorado. Echo Lake Colorado, located 33 miles west of Denver, was overwhelmed by around 3 feet of snow, while Pueblo was whipped by gusts measured at 68 mph.

 


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