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Wednesday's rainfall: 4th-highest one-day total

Thursday, August 28, 2008

(Updated Friday, August 29 - 3:56 am)

Staff Reports

GREENSBORO — Wednesday's rainfall set a daily record and ranks among the all-time single-day precipitation amounts here in the past 80 years.

The National Weather Service recorded 4.94 inches of rain at Piedmont Triad International Airport on Wednesday. That broke the former record for Aug. 27 of 4.52 inches, which was set in 1995 when the remnants of Tropical Storm Jerry soaked the Carolinas.

Wednesday's rainfall was also the most ever recorded at the airport in the month of August. The weather service started keeping records there in 1928.

Finally, the 4.94 inches of rain that fell here Wednesday ranks fourth on the all-time list of one-day rainfall records. Here are the top 10 one-day precipitation marks, according to the National Weather Service:

Sept. 24, 1947: 7.46 inches

Oct. 15, 1954: 6.24

Sept. 22, 1979: 5.11

Aug. 27, 2008: 4.94

Sept. 8, 1977: 4.73

Oct. 10, 1959: 4.50

Sept. 30, 1936: 4.48

June 15, 1969: 4.20

July 17, 2004: 4.16

Oct. 1, 1929: 4.06

The previous record for Aug. 27, 4.52 inches in 1995, would have ranked sixth on this list.

Accompanying Photos

Jerry Wolford (News & Record)

Photo Caption: Dean White, the manager of Latham Park Tennis Center, shakes leaves and debris from the nets as he and others clean up the courts on Thursday.