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]2005: Air France Flight 358 overran the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport while attempting to land in a thunderstorm. The aircraft was destroyed in the crash and subsequent fire, but all aboard survived.
August 3
[edit]2008: A rare F4 (T8) tornado struck the town of Hautmont, France, killing three people.
August 4
[edit]1980: Hurricane Allen reached category 5 strength for the first time in the late evening. Allen was at this strength for a total of almost three days, the longest of any Atlantic hurricane on record, and the third-longest in the world.
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]1753: Georg Wilhelm Richmann an early researcher into electricity and related phenomena, was struck by lightning and killed while conducting experiments in Saint Petersburg.
August 7
[edit]1979: Several tornadoes killed 2 people in the Woodstock, Ontario area.
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]1993: The NOAA-13 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The satellite only operated for 12 days before a short circuit resulted in a loss of contact and the end of its mission.
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]1916: The dam holding back Lake Toxaway in Transylvania County, North Carolina failed due to severe flooding.
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]2008: A tornado outbreak began in southern and central Poland, killing 4 people and damaging hundreds of buildings.
August 16
[edit]2003: Hurricane Erika made landfall in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, causing minor damage and two deaths.
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]1997: Typhoon Winnie, a storm with an extremely large eye more than 200 miles (320 km) in diameter, made landfall in Zhejiang, China, killing more than 300 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]2011: A strong tornado caused major damage and killed one person in Goderich, Ontario.
August 22
[edit]2016: Typhoon Mindulle made landfall near Tateyama, Chiba, Japan, killing 3 people due to flooding.
August 23
[edit]1998: An outbreak of severe weather caused major damage across northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, killing one person.
August 24
[edit]1992: Hurricane Andrew, one of the most intense hurricanes on record to hit the United States, devastated the area around Homestead, Florida.
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]1995: As part of a hyperactive hurricane season, 5 tropical cyclones existed in the Atlantic basin simultaneously, the only time in history this has ever occurred.
August 27
[edit]1893: The "Sea Islands Hurricane" made landfall near Savannah, Georgia, killing more than 1,000 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.