Portal:Weather/On this day list/September 24

September 24

1929: A major hurricane began to move through the northern Bahamas, causing major damage and killing 48 people in the country.

1988: The NOAA-11 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit.

2001: Just two weeks after the September 11 attacks, several tornadoes hit the Washington, D.C. metro area, including one which passed a few hundred feet from The Pentagon and skipped across Capitol Hill.

2010: Tropical Storm Matthew struck a wide area of Central America and Mexico with very heavy rain. Over the next several days, flooding and landslides would kill more than 100 people.