1983: A lightning caused grass fire burned 25,000 acres northwest of Reliance during the evening hours. At its peak, the fire was four miles wide by ten miles long.

1985: Snow fell across south central South Dakota from the evening of the 27th until the early afternoon of the 28th. Three to five inches of snow occurred with up to 18 inches reported around Winner. Eight to 12 inches fell around Gregory and Burke.

1936: An early season snowstorm buried Denver, CO. A storm total of 21.3 inches fell at the Denver airport in 60 hours.

1985: Hurricane Gloria passed over North Carolina's Outer Banks during the morning hours.

1987: Tons of mud and rock were loosened by a week of heavy rain on Sugar Loaf Mountain near Medellin, Colombia. The resulting mudslide killed 183 people.

1999: The Cray C-90 Supercomputer at National Weather Service headquarters was knocked out by an electrical fire. The Supercomputer ran several numerical weather prediction models.

2009: Tropical storm rains dropped a month's worth of precipitation in 12 hours on Manila, Philippines. It caused the worst flooding in over four decades.
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