The Nation - News from May 17, 1987

Torrential rains flooded streets and damaged power poles across much of Texas, a tornado ripped up trees in New Mexico and scattered thunderstorms doused much of the South and West. Marble-sized hail pelted Uvalde, Tex., and a severe thunderstorm spawned a tornado that touched down near Capitan, N.M. Heavy rains also fell across the Gulf Coast and into Florida, and thundershowers were scattered over the central and eastern Carolinas and from eastern North Dakota through the upper Great Lakes region. In the Northeast, a cold front depressed temperatures from Ohio and Pennsylvania through New England, with early morning lows in the 30s and 40s.