Portal:Weather/On this day list/March
March 1
[edit]2018: The GOES-17 geostationary weather satellite was launched.
March 2
[edit]2003: Cyclone Japhet made landfall near Vilankulo, Mozambique, bringing torrential rain that helped relieve a drought but also brought floods that killed 25 people in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
March 3
[edit]1971: A large blizzard hit much of eastern Canada, killing over 30 people.
March 4
[edit]1992: Cyclone Esau made landfall on New Caledonia, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to do so.
March 5
[edit]2002: Typhoon Mitag reached peak intensity over the northwestern Pacific Ocean with 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph). Mitag was the first super typhoon on record in the month of March.
March 6
[edit]2008: A storm system that would impact most of the eastern half of North America and last for four days started to take shape in the southern United States. There were 15 reports of tornadoes, parts of Ohio would receive over 28 inches (71 cm) of snow, and 17 people were killed.
March 7
[edit]2004: Cyclone Gafilo, the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the southern Indian Ocean, made landfall in Madagascar as a Category 5 storm.
March 8
[edit]1988: The remnants of Cyclone Bola passed about 110 kilometers (70 mi) north of New Zealand, causing severe flooding on the North Island.
March 9
[edit]2014: Cyclone Lusi formed near Vanuatu, causing major flooding over several days that killed 10 people.
March 10
[edit]2005: Cyclone Ingrid made landfall on the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. This was its second of several landfalls across Northern Australia over the course of 10 days.
March 11
[edit]2010: Severe flooding led to the failure of the Kyzyl-Agash Dam in Qyzylaghash, Almaty, Kazakhstan, killing at least 43 people.
March 12
[edit]2006: The worst day of a multi-day outbreak of tornadoes struck the Midwestern and South Central United States, killing 9 people in Illinois and Missouri.
March 13
[edit]2010: Cyclone Ului rapidly intensified to Category 5 on the Australian Scale, becoming one of the most intense storms on record in the South Pacific Ocean.
March 14
[edit]1862: Vilhelm Bjerknes, known as one of the founding fathers of weather forecasting, was born in Christiana (now Oslo), Norway.
March 15
[edit]1920: A severe blizzard began in North Dakota which would eventually kill 34 people.
March 16
[edit]1942: An extensive tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern United States, killing 152 people.
March 17
[edit]2012: Cyclone Lua made landfall near Pardoo Station, Western Australia. Though the storm packed 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometres per hour (109 mph), only minor damage was reported due to the sparse population of the area.
March 18
[edit]1925: The Tri-State Tornado, the longest-tracked tornado in history, killed almost 700 people in the United States Midwest.
March 19
[edit]2012: A weather radar system named OU-PRIME, used for teaching and research at the University of Oklahoma, was struck by lightning and disabled.
March 20
[edit]2006: Cyclone Larry made landfall near Innisfail, Queensland, resulting in almost $1 billion (USD) in damage.
March 21
[edit]1952: A tornado outbreak killed more than 200 people in the Southern United States.
March 22
[edit]2014: Days of heavy rain led to a major mudslide which destroyed 49 homes east of Oso, Washington, killing 43 people.
March 23: World Meteorological Day
[edit]1913: A tornado struck the city of Omaha, Nebraska on Easter Sunday, killing more than 100 people.
March 24
[edit]1911: The passenger ship SS Yongala sank in a cyclone south of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. All 122 passengers and crew were lost.
March 25
[edit]1948: A second tornado in six days struck Tinker Air Force Base, after the first official tornado prediction ever issued.
March 26
[edit]1969: Meteor-1 1 the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, was launched.
March 27
[edit]2009: The dam holding back Situ Gintung, a lake near Jakarta, Indonesia, failed due to heavy rains in the early morning. At least 100 people died in the ensuing flood.
March 28
[edit]2004: Hurricane Catarina, the only known severe tropical cyclone ever to form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, made landfall north of Torres, Brazil. More than $350 million (USD) in damage and as many as 10 deaths were caused by the storm.
March 29
[edit]1998: A supercell dropped 13 tornadoes across southern Minnesota, killing two people in the state's earliest tornado outbreak on record.
March 30
[edit]2006: Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever in the Australian region, made landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.
March 31
[edit]2014: Cyclone Hellen made landfall near Mitsinjo, Madagascar, killing 8 people.