Portal:Weather/On this day list/September 21

1909: A major hurricane made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana, bringing a severe storm surge that killed hundreds of people.

1934: A violent typhoon, one of the strongest on record to strike land, killed more than 3,000 people in southern Japan.

1938: The "Long Island Express", a Category 3 hurricane, crossed over Long Island and passed into New England without warning, causing severe damage and killing as many as 800 people.

1961: Hurricane Esther passed over Nantucket as a weakening Category 3 hurricane.

2000: The NOAA-16 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

2006: Typhoon Yagi, the strongest storm of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season, reached a peak intensity of 910 millibars (26.87 inHg), with 10-minute maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometres per hour (121 mph).

2010: Hurricane Igor, one of the most damaging tropical cyclones ever to strike Canada, made landfall near Cape Race, Newfoundland.

2011: Typhoon Roke made landfall near Hamamatsu, Japan, the second typhoon to affect the area in just a few weeks.