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stroyed 7500 to 10,000 acres of grassland along with many fences and hay bales. Forty-five fighting units working over 20 hours a day finally brought the fire under control during the afternoon on November 2nd.
2000: A tornado event on the 1st of November was a rare and unusual weather phenomenon to occur so late in the year in North Dakota. Several tornadoes, with five distinct paths, hit south central North Dakota causing property damage and injuries. The majority of the damage and injuries occurred in the Bismarck area. Forty two homes suffered minor to moderate damage. The tornadoes were rated F0 and F1 on the Fujita scale, packing winds up to 90 mph. Another unusual phenomenon, these tornadoes traveled from east to west. This was caused by a strong low pressure system, centered over north central South Dakota, spinning counterclockwise, allowing the low level flow over Bismarck to move east to west. At the same time period these tornadoes were occurring, snow began to fall in the far western area of North Dakota. Winter storm watches and warnings were posted across north central and western North Dakota that afternoon. Prior to this the last recorded tornado to occur in the state was October 11th 1979 in Sargent County in southeast North Dakota.
1870: General Albert J. Myer, head of the U.S. Signal Corps Weather Service, ordered the first simultaneous gathering of weather data across the United States. The information was used to produce the first national weather maps.
2000: The most widespread and severe flooding since 1947 was underway across parts of Britain as ten rivers in the UK flowed out of their banks.
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