Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 19

1421: St. Elizabeth's flood killed 2,000 or more people in the present-day Netherlands.

1912: Robert Simpson, former director of the National Hurricane Center and co-inventor of the Saffir–Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, was born in Corpus Christi, Texas.

1977: A severe tropical cyclone struck the Andhra Pradesh state of India with a devastating storm surge, killing more than 10,000 people.

2013: Up to 440 millimetres (17 in) of rain in just 90 minutes caused severe flooding on Sardinia, killing 18 people.

2016: The GOES-16 geostationary weather satellite was launched.