Sartell East Weather

   1935: An extremely damaging ice storm hit Duluth. The storm began on March 3rd with freezing rain and wet snow.  By the morning of the 4th, the snow stopped but the freezing rain continued. The lights started going out in Duluth due to power lines breaking. Four streetcars were abandoned, and a heavy salt mixture and pickaxes were used to try to free them. A one-mile stretch of telephone poles broke off.

   1953 - Snow was reported on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. 

   1966 - A severe blizzard raged across Minnesota and North Dakota. The blizzard lasted four days, producing up to 35 inches of snow, and wind gusting to 100 mph produced snow drifts 30 to 40 feet high. Traffic was paralyzed for three days.

   1989 - A strong (F-3) tornado injured five persons near Brownsville, MS, and killed seven cows and two hogs in one pasture. 

   1990 - A Pacific cold front working its way across the western U.S. produced heavy snow over parts of Idaho, Nevada and Utah.

   2004 - An F0 tornado 2 miles north of Muldrow, OK, broke a record stretch of 292 days without a reported tornado.