Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 7
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.
1979: Several tornadoes killed 2 people in the Woodstock, Ontario area.
1993: Tropical Storm Bret made landfall in Venezuela, eventually killing 174 people in Venezuela and Colombia (with ten more deaths in Nicaragua), making it the deadliest South American tropical cyclone in recorded history.
2014: Hurricane Iselle, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike the Big Island of Hawaii, made landfall along the Kau coast.