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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER
259 AM MDT TUE MAY 8 2001
 
...TODAY IN METRO DENVER WEATHER HISTORY...

8     IN 1883...HEAVY RAINFALL TOTALED 2.02 INCHES IN DOWNTOWN
        DENVER. 
      IN 1988...A WIND GUST TO 68 MPH WAS RECORDED AT ECHO LAKE.
        NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTED TO 35 MPH AT STAPLETON AIRPORT. 
      IN 1995...HIGH WINDS OF UNKNOWN STRENGTH BLEW A CAMPER SHELL
        FROM THE BACK OF A PICKUP TRUCK NEAR FORT LUPTON.  NORTH 
        WINDS GUSTED TO 49 MPH AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.  
      IN 1996...ONE TO TWO INCH DIAMETER HAIL WAS MEASURED IN
        LOCHBUIE...NORTHEAST OF DENVER.  BEAN SIZE HAIL FELL IN
        BRIGHTON.  MOST OF THE LARGE HAIL FELL FROM SEVERE
        THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTHEAST OF METRO DENVER.
8-9   IN 1957...INTENSE HEAVY RAIN CAUSED FLOODING ON TOLL GATE CREEK
        IN AURORA RESULTING IN 3 DEATHS.  THE RAIN ALSO CAUSED       
        FLOODING ON SAND CREEK IN AURORA AND DENVER.  UP TO 4 INCHES
        OF RAIN FELL IN 5 HOURS IN THE TOLL GATE CREEK BASIN.  
        RAINFALL TOTALED 3.29 INCHES AT STAPLETON AIRPORT...WITH MOST
        OF THE RAIN...2.34 INCHES...OCCURRING ON THE 9TH.    
8-10  IN 1979...4.3 INCHES OF SNOW FELL AT STAPLETON INTERNATIONAL
        AIRPORT...WHERE NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTED TO 30 MPH ON THE 8TH.
        MOST OF THE SNOWFALL...2.3 INCHES...OCCURRED ON THE 9TH.  
        HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 35 DEGREES ON THE 9TH EQUALED THE RECORD
        LOW MAXIMUM FOR THE DATE.