Portal:Weather/On this day list/April
April 1
[edit]1945: The Regional Meteorological Centre in Chennai, India, was formed.
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]1984: Cyclone Kamisy, the worst tropical cyclone to affect northern Madagascar since 1911, reached peak intensity as it approached the island, with wind gusts as high as 250 kilometres per hour (160 mph).
April 9
[edit]1947: A tornado or series of tornadoes plowed through several towns in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, killing 181 people.
April 10
[edit]1996: A wind gust of 408 kilometres per hour (254 mph) was measured by a weather station on Barrow Island, Western Australia, as Cyclone Olivia made landfall. As of 2020 this remains the highest wind gust ever reliably measured.
April 11
[edit]1965: The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, one of the worst in history, produced 78 tornadoes and killed almost 300 people in the American Midwest.
April 12
[edit]1934: A wind gust of 231 miles per hour (372 km/h) was measured at the Mount Washington Observatory atop Mount Washington, New Hampshire. At the time, this was the fastest wind speed ever recorded, and it remains the fastest surface wind speed ever measured outside of a tropical cyclone.
April 13
[edit]1994: The GOES 8 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 8 would provide weather forecasting data to the United States until its retirement in 2004.
April 14
[edit]2018: Very heavy rains began falling on Kauai, Hawaii, continuing into the next day. A weather station near Hanalei measured 49.69 inches (126.2 cm) of rain in a 24-hour period, which is the most ever recorded anywhere the United States.
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]1965: A devastating tornado outbreak killed 58 people near Chicago.
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]1908: One of the deadliest tornadoes in US history killed at least 143 people in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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.