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April 10[edit]
1979: An extensive tornado outbreak devastated the area around Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 56 people.
1991: The Angola Cyclone, the first tropical cyclone ever observed over the southern Atlantic Ocean, formed just off the coast of Angola.
1996: A wind gust of 408 kilometres per hour (254 mph) was measured by a weather station on Barrow Island, Western Australia, as Cyclone Olivia made landfall. As of 2020 this remains the highest wind gust ever reliably measured.