Portal:Weather/On this day list/April
April 1[edit]
1997: A major nor'easter dumped an unprecedented amount of late-season snow on parts of the Eastern United States, including more than 2 feet (60 cm) in Boston, Massachusetts.
April 2[edit]
1956: A two-day tornado outbreak began affecting the Central United States, spawning at least 47 tornadoes across 13 states that killed at least 38 people.
April 3[edit]
2012: A tornado outbreak struck the region around the cities of Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, causing more than US$1 billion in damage.
April 4[edit]
2003: Cyclone Inigo reached its peak intensity of 900 millibars (26.58 inHg) north of Onslow, Western Australia, tying it for the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Australian tropical cyclone region.
April 5[edit]
1925: The worst tornado ever to strike the Miami, Florida area killed 5 people.
April 6[edit]
1936: A violent tornado struck the town of Gainesville, Georgia, killing more than 200 people. This was the day after another tornado in Tupelo, Mississippi also killed more than 200 people.
April 7[edit]
2001: Cyclone Sose passed just west of Vanuatu, killing 9 people.
April 8[edit]
1998: An F5 tornado, the second in the area's history, killed 32 people near Birmingham, Alabama.
April 9[edit]
2003: INSAT-3A, a weather and communications satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation, was launched into geostationary orbit.
April 10[edit]
1991: The Angola Cyclone, the first tropical cyclone ever observed over the southern Atlantic Ocean, formed just off the coast of Angola.
April 11[edit]
1854: John Park Finley, a pioneer in reporting and documenting tornadoes in the United States, was born.
April 12[edit]
2020: A major tornado outbreak struck the Southeastern United States on the Easter holiday, killing 32 people over two days.
April 13[edit]
2014: After skirting the coast of Queensland for two days, Cyclone Ita began moving southeastward over the Coral Sea near Mackay. Ita caused A$1.1 billion in damage in Australia.
April 14[edit]
1886: A tornado in Sauk Rapids killed 72 people, making it Minnesota's deadliest on record.
April 15[edit]
1956: An F4 tornado killed 25 people in the Birmingham, Alabama area.
April 16[edit]
1998: A deadly tornado outbreak struck Tennessee and Kentucky, including a rare F5 tornado that killed 3 people, and another tornado that struck downtown Nashville, Tennessee, killing one person.
April 17[edit]
1970: A multi-day tornado outbreak began in the southern High Plains of the United States, including 3 F4 tornadoes in the Texas Panhandle that killed 6 people.
April 18[edit]
2014: An avalanche killed 16 Sherpa guides working on Mount Everest.
April 19[edit]
2008: Typhoon Neoguri made landfall in Guangdong province of southern China, the earliest tropical cyclone to strike the nation in recorded history.
April 20[edit]
2012: Bhoja Air Flight 213 crashed while attempting to land in a thunderstorm, killing all 127 people aboard.
April 21[edit]
2003: Tropical Storm Ana transformed from a subtropical cyclone to a tropical cyclone, becoming the only such storm ever recorded in the northern Atlantic Ocean in April.
April 22: Earth Day[edit]
1992: A subtropical cyclone, the first ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean in the month of April, reached peak intensity far south of Bermuda.
April 23[edit]
1792: John Thomas Romney Robinson, inventor of the cup-anemometer, was born in Dublin, Ireland.
April 24[edit]
2010: A deadly tornado tracked 149 miles (240 km) across Louisiana and Mississippi, killing 10 people.
April 25[edit]
2003: Typhoon Kujira made landfall on Kyushu as a weak tropical depression. Kujira was the earliest tropical cyclone on record to strike Japan.
April 26[edit]
1989: The deadliest tornado in world history destroyed areas of the Manikganj District, Bangladesh. More than 1300 people were killed, and over 80,000 people were left homeless.
April 27[edit]
1980: Thai Airways Flight 231 stalled and crashed due to a downburst while flying through a thunderstorm on approach to Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand, killing 44 of 49 people on board.
April 28[edit]
2014: The second day of a multi-day tornado outbreak struck the Southeastern United States, bringing 50 tornadoes to 6 states that killed a total of 16 people.
April 29[edit]
1924: A tornado outbreak began which would kill at least 110 over the course of two days.
April 30: End of the Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons except for the Mauritius and Seychelles region[edit]
1054: The first known European tornado affected Rosdalla, near Kilbeggan, Ireland.