1970: Heavy snow, combined with strong winds, created areas of blowing and drifting snow throughout parts of eastern South Dakota. Snow drifts in excess of 2 to 3 ft. blocked many roads in the area. Many schools were closed. The heaviest snowfall recorded for the event, which lasted two days, was 17 inches at Aberdeen. Snowfall in other locations averaged around 12 inches.

1927: In Rock Springs, TX an F5 tornado struck, killing 74 people and causing $1.2 million in damage. Out of 247 buildings in town, 235 were destroyed. The tornado was more than a mile wide and moved from northwest to southeast. The tornado was part of a much larger outbreak spreading from the Plains into the Ozarks, and was on the second day of a four-consecutive-day stretch of tornado outbreaks in Texas.

1934: Winds atop Mount Washington, NH averaged 186 mph for five minutes, with a peak gust of 231 mph.

1945: Despite Antlers, OK being hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 600 of the tiny town's buildings and killing 69 people, newspapers barely mentioned it. President Roosevelt had died three hours earlier.