Portal:Weather/On this day list/July

July 1

2005: Severe flooding shut down almost all transportation in the Indian state of Gujarat. More than 170 people were eventually killed by the flooding.

July 2

1963: Mohawk Airlines Flight 121 crashed while taking off from Rochester-Monroe County Airport due to a heavy thunderstorm. Seven of the 43 people on board were killed.

July 3

2014: Hurricane Arthur made landfall just before midnight near Beaufort, North Carolina, the first hurricane to strike the United States in almost two years.

July 4

1977: A severe windstorm, known as a derecho, struck areas of Wisconsin and Michigan.

July 5

1937: The temperature reached 45.0 °C (113.0 °F) at both Midale and Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan. This was the hottest temperature in the history of Saskatchewan, and until a 2021 heat wave was the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada.

July 6

2005: A tornado outbreak spawned by the outer rainbands of Hurricane Cindy began over the Southeastern United States, including an F2 tornado that caused extensive damage to the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

July 7

2012: A severe flood struck the region of Krasnodar Krai, Russia in the early morning hours, killing 171 people.

July 8

1680: A probable tornado killed one person in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first known tornado fatality in North America.

July 9

2007: A severe cold wave culminated in a rare snowfall for parts of Argentina.

July 10

2006: Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall on the southern end of the Korean Peninsula. The death toll in North Korea may have been as high as 10,000 people.

July 11

1991: L'Express Airlines Flight 508 crashed in a severe thunderstorm in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of 15 people onboard.

July 12

1995: Four straight days of derechos began across portions of the northern United States and southern Canada.

July 13

2010: Typhoon Conson struck the northern Philippines, killing more than 100 people.

July 14

1977: The first of the Himawari series of weather satellites, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

July 15

2001: The South African Weather Service was formed.

July 16

1904: A destructive tornado struck Chappaqua, New York, killing two people.

July 17

2013: Tropical Storm Cimaron formed near Calayan, Cagayan, Philippines. A lightning strike from the storm in Ilocos Sur killed two people.

July 18

2014: Typhoon Rammasun, only the second category 5 tropical cyclone in history to made landfall on China, struck Hainan, killing 88 people across the country.

July 19

1983: A derecho, which moved along a path parallel to Interstate 94 from Minnesota to Illinois, knocked out power to 250,000 people and injured at least 34.

July 20

2007: Severe flooding in the United Kingdom peaked as a storm system dropped as much as 120 millimeters (4.7 in) of rain on southern England.

July 21

1909: A major hurricane made landfall at Velasco, Texas, killing 41 people.

July 22

1342: St. Mary Magdalene's flood, the worst flooding in central European history, reached its peak, inundating most rivers and valleys across central Europe.

July 23

2001: The GOES 12 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 12 would provide weather forecasting data to the United States until its retirement in 2013.

July 24

1959: Hurricane Debra made landfall near Galveston, Texas, bringing more than 15 inches (380 mm) of rain in Orange County that resulted in severe flooding.

July 25

2019: A historic heat wave reached its peak across western Europe, with temperatures reaching all-time record highs in Germany (42.6 °C, 108.7 °F), Belgium (41.8 °C, 107.2 °F), Luxembourg (40.8 °C, 105.4 °F), and the United Kingdom (38.7 °C, 101.7 °F).

July 26

2005: Almost 1,000 millimeters (39 in) of rain in just 24 hours caused severe flooding in the Indian state of Maharashtra, killing more than 1000 people.

July 27

1989: Typhoon Judy struck southern Kyushu, Japan, killing 11 people in the country due to significant flooding and landslides.

July 28

1996: Hurricane Cesar made landfall in Nicaragua and moved across Central America. Due to different conventions in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the storm was renamed "Douglas".

July 29

1904: The first section of the Galveston Seawall was completed.

July 30

1978: Tropical Storm Amelia formed just off the coast of southern Texas. Upon moving inland the next day, Amelia caused severe flooding which killed 30 people.

July 31

2022: A volcano warning is accidentally issued for a wildfire in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska.