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1896: A tornado outbreak killed dozens in Kansas and Nebraska.

2001: A Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft crashed while flying through a thunderstorm near Sari, Iran, killing 30 people, including several members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and other government officials.

2003: Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, recorded 366.1 millimetres (14.41 in) of rain in just 18 hours from a tropical cyclone that caused some of the worst flooding on the island in its history.

2021: Cyclone Tauktae made landfall near Mumbai, killing at least 174 people.

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