Weather Records on 5 September 1986

711 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 5 September 1986. Highest significance: Henrietta, US.

Key Facts for 5 September 1986

On 5 September 1986, 711 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
149 were record highs and 337 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 0 were all-time records, 15 monthly and 696 daily.
Henrietta set a daily record precipitation of 102.1 mm (4.0 in) on 5 September 1986.
Across 157 earlier years (1802 to 2026) the same calendar date averaged 460 records.

Record Map

711 stations

711 station records on 5 September 1986 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 5 September 1986: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Henrietta	United States	Record daily precipitation	102.1 mm (4.0 in)	73 of 100 (Major)
Mullen 3S	United States	Record daily precipitation	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	61 of 100 (Major)
Healdton 3 E	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Farris 3 WNW	United States	Record daily precipitation	149.6 mm (5.9 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
La Labor (Smn)	Mexico	Record daily precipitation	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Wales	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Franklin Sewage Plt	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Jayton	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	45 of 100 (Notable)
Teresa Dale	Australia	Record daily precipitation	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Highland Home	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Los Gatos	United States	Record low minimum temperature	4.4 C (39.9 F)	44 of 100 (Notable)
Berea 1 W	United States	Record daily precipitation	72.9 mm (2.9 in)	43 of 100 (Notable)
Greenville	United States	Record daily precipitation	87.9 mm (3.5 in)	42 of 100 (Notable)
Denton 2 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.7 mm (3.0 in)	41 of 100 (Notable)
Okay	United States	Record daily precipitation	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Lyman	United States	Record daily precipitation	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Saint Paul	United States	Record daily precipitation	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Cold Bay AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	40 of 100 (Notable)
Ajaguz	Kazakhstan	Record daily precipitation	28.8 mm (1.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Waurika	United States	Record daily precipitation	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Halaula 1110	United States	Record daily precipitation	27.9 mm (1.1 in)	39 of 100 (Notable)
Prospect	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Bowie	United States	Record daily precipitation	89.2 mm (3.5 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Fischers Store	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	38 of 100 (Notable)
Weissenburg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	1.8 C (35.2 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Eastport	United States	Record low minimum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Laurelville	United States	Record daily precipitation	43.2 mm (1.7 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Monteagle	United States	Record daily precipitation	73.2 mm (2.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Slaton	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
San Angelo	United States	Record daily precipitation	75.4 mm (3.0 in)	37 of 100 (Notable)
Hawkinsville	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.2 mm (2.9 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Marietta 5SW	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Crosbyton	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.8 mm (2.6 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Gainesville	United States	Record daily precipitation	62.5 mm (2.5 in)	36 of 100 (Notable)
Trier-Petrisberg	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	3.3 C (37.9 F)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Newark Wtr Wks	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Spur	United States	Record daily precipitation	79.0 mm (3.1 in)	33 of 100 (Routine)
Rugozero	Russia	Record daily precipitation	32.7 mm (1.3 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Comanche	United States	Record daily precipitation	64.0 mm (2.5 in)	32 of 100 (Routine)
Supai	United States	Record high minimum temperature	25.0 C (77.0 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Garnett 1 E	United States	Record high minimum temperature	24.4 C (75.9 F)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Post	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Creston	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	31 of 100 (Routine)
Delaware	United States	Record daily precipitation	32.3 mm (1.3 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Hagansport	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Ringgold	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.4 mm (2.9 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Childress Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	48.5 mm (1.9 in)	30 of 100 (Routine)
Graz	Austria	Record low minimum temperature	5.4 C (41.7 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Bairro Do Pinheiro	Brazil	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Karlsruhe	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	4.8 C (40.6 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Stuttgart-Stadt	Germany	Record low minimum temperature	2.3 C (36.1 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Alpharetta 4 SSW	United States	Record daily precipitation	29.7 mm (1.2 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Clarksville 2NE	United States	Record daily precipitation	26.2 mm (1.0 in)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Stehekin 4 NW	United States	Record high maximum temperature	33.3 C (91.9 F)	29 of 100 (Routine)
Dongfang	China	Record daily precipitation	74.8 mm (2.9 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Orly	France	Record low minimum temperature	6.5 C (43.7 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Rinconada	Mexico	Record high maximum temperature	37.8 C (100.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Fairfield	United States	Record low maximum temperature	6.1 C (43.0 F)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Abernathy	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.6 mm (2.8 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)
Honey Grove	United States	Record daily precipitation	66.5 mm (2.6 in)	28 of 100 (Routine)

Counts by Type and Timescale

711 records

Records set or tied on 5 September 1986 by type: Highest daily maximum 68, Lowest daily maximum 107, Highest daily minimum 81, Lowest daily minimum 230, Heaviest daily rainfall 223, Heaviest daily snowfall 1, Deepest snow cover 1.

Records on 5 September 1986 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	68
Lowest daily maximum	107
Highest daily minimum	81
Lowest daily minimum	230
Heaviest daily rainfall	223
Heaviest daily snowfall	1
Deepest snow cover	1

Records on 5 September 1986 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 15, daily 696.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

577 broken records

Margins by which the 577 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 124.7. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

5 September 1986

Top 20 records on 5 September 1986 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
5 September 1986	Henrietta, US	daily rain	102.1 mm (4.0 in)	79.2 mm (3.1 in)	80 years	73 of 100 (Major)
5 September 1986	Mullen 3S, US	daily rain	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	25.9 mm (1.0 in)	84 years	61 of 100 (Major)
5 September 1986	Healdton 3 E, US	daily rain	64.3 mm (2.5 in)	37.9 mm (1.5 in)	80 years	52 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Farris 3 WNW, US	daily rain	149.6 mm (5.9 in)	124.7 mm (4.9 in)	24 years	51 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	La Labor (Smn), MX	daily rain	69.9 mm (2.8 in)	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	21 years	50 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Wales, US	daily rain	40.1 mm (1.6 in)	23.3 mm (0.9 in)	9 years	48 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Franklin Sewage Plt, US	daily rain	55.4 mm (2.2 in)	21.9 mm (0.9 in)	76 years	46 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Jayton, US	daily rain	71.1 mm (2.8 in)	45.4 mm (1.8 in)	36 years	45 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Teresa Dale, AU	daily rain	34.5 mm (1.4 in)	19.5 mm (0.8 in)	1 year	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Highland Home, US	daily rain	62.2 mm (2.4 in)	30.2 mm (1.2 in)	68 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Los Gatos, US	daily low min	4.4 C (39.9 F)	2.3 C (4.1 F)	90 years	44 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Berea 1 W, US	daily rain	72.9 mm (2.9 in)	41.7 mm (1.6 in)	32 years	43 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Greenville, US	daily rain	87.9 mm (3.5 in)	26.9 mm (1.1 in)	71 years	42 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Denton 2 SE, US	daily rain	75.7 mm (3.0 in)	36.1 mm (1.4 in)	53 years	41 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Okay, US	daily rain	45.5 mm (1.8 in)	29.0 mm (1.1 in)	64 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Lyman, US	daily rain	31.8 mm (1.3 in)	13.0 mm (0.5 in)	60 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Saint Paul, US	daily rain	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	9.4 mm (0.37 in)	80 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Cold Bay AP, US	daily rain	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	22.6 mm (0.9 in)	20 years	40 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Ajaguz, KZ	monthly rain	28.8 mm (1.1 in)	4.6 mm (0.18 in)	45 years	39 of 100 (Notable)
5 September 1986	Waurika, US	daily rain	58.7 mm (2.3 in)	30.8 mm (1.2 in)	53 years	39 of 100 (Notable)

Significance is a score from 0 to 100 combining margin, the age of the old record and the length of the station's record. How it is computed.

The Same Date in Other Years

1802 to 1986

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1802 to 1986. 1986 had 711 records.

Counts for years before the ledger starts come from the same station rules.

Records on 09-05 in each year
Year	Records
1802	2
1814	1
1833	1
1837	1
1843	1
1845	1
1846	1
1856	1
1859	2
1861	2
1866	1
1868	1
1869	2
1871	1
1872	1
1874	1
1876	1
1880	2
1883	2
1885	1
1887	1
1888	1
1889	1
1891	2
1892	3
1894	1
1895	4
1896	2
1897	7
1898	7
1899	2
1900	1
1901	4
1902	10
1903	14
1904	2
1905	17
1906	8
1907	11
1908	28
1909	16
1910	35
1911	23
1912	39
1913	24
1914	10
1915	27
1916	22
1917	28
1918	109
1919	60
1920	47
1921	82
1922	96
1923	204
1924	191
1925	298
1926	243
1927	71
1928	306
1929	371
1930	94
1931	381
1932	315
1933	361
1934	399
1935	432
1936	313
1937	291
1938	244
1939	317
1940	249
1941	470
1942	282
1943	593
1944	387
1945	447
1946	367
1947	557
1948	458
1949	421
1950	559
1951	251
1952	396
1953	728
1954	593
1955	517
1956	637
1957	323
1958	413
1959	367
1960	351
1961	727
1962	922
1963	554
1964	315
1965	899
1966	335
1967	1,092
1968	524
1969	556
1970	754
1971	736
1972	653
1973	669
1974	1,902
1975	388
1976	636
1977	344
1978	1,376
1979	611
1980	357
1981	448
1982	615
1983	1,181
1984	1,185
1985	1,231
1986	711
1987	618
1988	1,309
1989	522
1990	806
1991	598
1992	1,116
1993	635
1994	901
1995	1,168
1996	773
1997	1,460
1998	1,686
1999	1,215
2000	1,342
2001	626
2002	710
2003	860
2004	1,135
2005	502
2006	1,014
2007	1,344
2008	1,486
2009	765
2010	1,316
2011	1,186
2012	1,115
2013	798
2014	462
2015	846
2016	651
2017	778
2018	861
2019	724
2020	1,250
2021	424
2022	1,168
2023	1,166
2024	1,320
2025	695
2026	835

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Data for records on 1986-09-05: CSV or JSON. Field meanings are on the data page.

Sources: Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Made with Natural Earth. Public domain map data. Borders are Natural Earth's de facto depiction. Data as of 2026-10-17 (17 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 20	525
20 to 40	39
40 to 60	11
60 to 80	1
80 to 100	0
100 to 120	0
120 to 140	1