Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 28
March 28[edit]
1920: A tornado outbreak killed more than 300 people in a large portion of the central and southeastern United States.
1983: NOAA-8, the first weather satellite of the Advanced TIROS-N series, was launched into a polar orbit.
2004: Hurricane Catarina, the only known severe tropical cyclone ever to form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, made landfall north of Torres, Brazil. More than $350 million (USD) in damage and as many as 10 deaths were caused by the storm.