Portal:Weather/On this day list/August
August 1[edit]
1899: A hurricane made landfall near Carrabelle, Florida, destroying most of the city and killing 7 people in the state.
August 2[edit]
2012: Typhoon Damrey made landfall over Jiangsu in northern China, just a few hours before Typhoon Saola struck Fujian in southern part of the country. The two storms together killed more than 100 people.
August 3[edit]
2006: Typhoon Prapiroon struck southern China near Shangyang, resulting in severe flooding which caused about $1 billion (USD) in damage.
August 4[edit]
2016: Hurricane Earl moved onshore near Belize City, Belize. After landfall Earl moved westward into Mexico, where heavy rain caused landslides that killed at least 81 people.
August 5[edit]
1997: Hurricane Guillermo reached a peak intensity of 919 millibars (27.1 inHg) over the eastern Pacific Ocean, making it the second-strongest Pacific hurricane on record at the time (since surpassed by two other storms).
August 6[edit]
2010: A flash flood killed 255 people in the Ladakh region of northern India.
August 7[edit]
1944: The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, better known as the Hurricane Hunters, were first activated out of Presque Isle Army Air Field, Maine.
August 8[edit]
1975: Flooding rains due to Typhoon Nina caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail. The subsequent catastrophic flooding, famine, and diseases would kill as many as 200,000 people.
August 9[edit]
1878: The deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, and one of the worst ever in the Northeastern United States, destroyed the town of Wallingford, killing 34 people.
August 10[edit]
2020: A severe derecho struck the Midwestern United States, bringing wind gusts as high as 140 miles per hour (230 km/h) and causing $11 billion USD in damage.
August 11[edit]
1979: A dam in the Rajkot district of Gujarat, India failed due to major flooding, resulting in the deaths of thousands.
August 12[edit]
1955: Hurricane Connie made landfall in North Carolina. Five days later, Hurricane Diane would strike the same area, causing catastrophic flooding throughout the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States.
August 13[edit]
2004: Hurricane Charley, after changing direction and rapidly intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico, surprised residents of Punta Gorda, Florida as a Category 4 hurricane.
August 14[edit]
1974: Tropical Storm Alma made landfall in northern Venezuela, one of only 4 tropical cyclones in history to do so.
August 15[edit]
1787: The Four-State Tornado Swarm, the most extensive tornado outbreak in early American history, killed two people in New England.
August 16[edit]
2004: Flash flooding struck two villages in England, causing major damage.
August 17[edit]
1969: Hurricane Camille, the second strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States, made landfall at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Camille caused more than $1 billion (1969 USD) in damage and 250 deaths.
August 18[edit]
2007: Typhoon Sepat struck the island of Taiwan, killing at least 43 people.
August 19[edit]
1838: Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson, a Swedish meteorologist who compiled the first International Cloud Atlas, was born in Stockholm.
August 20[edit]
1970: The 8th deadliest tornado in Canadian history struck Sudbury, Ontario.
August 21[edit]
1883: A tornado struck Rochester, Minnesota, killing 37. The destruction led to the founding of the Mayo Clinic.
August 22[edit]
1999: China Airlines Flight 642 crashed while attempting to land at Hong Kong International Airport during Typhoon Sam, killing 3 passengers.
August 23[edit]
1873: The first known hurricane warning in history was raised for portions of the eastern United States, for a hurricane that would eventually strike Newfoundland. This warning was issued by Father Benito Vines, director of the Meteorological Observatory of the Royal College of Belén in Havana, Cuba.
August 24[edit]
1893: A hurricane struck New York City, causing major damage, including the complete destruction of Hog Island.
August 25[edit]
1931: The Grand Canal broke through dikes near the city of Gaoyou, China, drowning more than 2,000 people. This was just one tragedy in a large series of floods that year which killed hundreds of thousands of people by drowning, disease, and starvation.
August 26[edit]
2017: Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas before stalling for several days and producing up to 60 inches (150 cm) of rain in Southeast Texas. This was the most rainfall on record in the United States from a tropical cyclone.
August 27[edit]
1909: A major hurricane struck the city of Monterrey, Mexico, bringing flooding that destroyed half the city and killed an estimated 4,000 people.
August 28[edit]
1964: Nimbus 1, the first weather satellite of the Nimbus program, was launched. It functioned for nearly a month, delivering information about cloud cover and temperature until a solar panel failure ended its mission.
August 29[edit]
2017: Severe flooding following heavy rainfall struck Mumbai, India, killing dozens of people due to electrocutions and a building collapse.
August 30[edit]
1878: A record flood killed almost 400 people in and around Miskolc, Hungary.
August 31[edit]
1940: A Douglas DC-3 crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia while flying through a thunderstorm. The cause of the crash was unclear, but suspected to be either due to wind shear or a lightning strike.