Portal:Weather/On this day list/September 13

1944: The Somers-class destroyer USS Warrington was sunk by a storm dubbed The Great Atlantic Hurricane off the coast of The Bahamas. Of the 321 officers and crew aboard, only 73 were rescued.

1948: A hurricane passed just west of Bermuda, causing major damage on the island and killing six people.

1989: Hurricane Octave reached peak intensity over the northeastern Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour (210 km/h).

1995: Hurricane Marilyn began a three-day track through the Leeward Islands, causing more than $1 billion in damage.

2008: Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing more than $30 billion (USD) in damage. Ike was the third-costliest tropical cyclone in history at the time, and killed at least 214 people throughout the Caribbean.