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September 1

1984: Typhoon Ike struck Siargao Island in the Philippines, killing more than 1,300 people and leaving more than 200,000 homeless.

September 2

2010: Typhoon Kompasu made landfall near Seoul, South Korea, killing four people in the country.

September 3

1930: Hurricane San Zenon made landfall near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, killing more than 2,000 people on Hispaniola.

September 4

1993: Typhoon Yancy made its third landfall on Japan, on Hiroshima Prefecture. Yancy killed 48 people throughout the country.

September 5

2003: Hurricane Fabian made landfall on Bermuda as a Category 3 hurricane, the strongest to strike the island in 40 years.

September 6

1959: Hurricane Patsy became the first Category 5 hurricane on record in the Pacific Ocean.

September 7

1998: Two derechos struck the Northeastern United States, causing widespread damage and killing 7 people.

September 8

1900: The Galveston Hurricane, the deadliest hurricane of the 20th century, made landfall at Galveston, Texas.

September 9

1775: The Independence Hurricane killed around 4,000 people in Newfoundland.

September 10

1931: A major hurricane killed as many as 2,500 people in Belize.

September 11

1989: Hurricane Octave reached peak intensity over the northeastern Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour (210 km/h).

September 12

1982: Typhoon Judy made landfall on southern Honshu, Japan, killing 26 people and flooding more than 60,000 homes.

September 13

2008: Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing more than $30 billion (USD) in damage. Ike was the third-costliest tropical cyclone in history at the time, and killed at least 214 people throughout the Caribbean.

September 14

1997: Typhoon Oliwa made landfall on Kyushu, near Makurazaki, Kagoshima, killing 7 people in Japan and another 10 offshore.

September 15

2004: The outer rainbands of Hurricane Ivan began spawning tornadoes in the Southeastern United States. This tornado outbreak, the second-largest ever caused by a tropical cyclone, killed 7 people.

September 16

1984: Tropical Storm Fran passed just south of the Cape Verde islands, causing severe flooding that killed at least 29 people.

September 17

1947: A category 4 hurricane struck Fort Lauderdale, Florida, killing more than 50 people and causing more than $100 million in damage.

September 18

2020: Despite tropical cyclones being a rare occurrence in Europe, two tropical or subtropical cyclones, Cyclone Ianos and Subtropical Storm Alpha, made landfall on the same day in Greece and Portugal respectively.

September 19

1914: A tropical storm, the only tropical cyclone of the 1914 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated over coastal Louisiana. This was the least active Atlantic hurricane season on record.

September 20

1978: Hurricane Greta, after having weakened to a tropical depression due to its passage over Central America, restrengthened to a tropical storm in the far eastern Pacific Ocean. Because naming conventions for tropical cyclones in the Pacific are different from the Atlantic Ocean, the storm was renamed "Olivia", becoming a rare two-name storm.

September 21

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

September 22

1948: A hurricane, the strongest in 13 years to hit Florida, made landfall near Chokoloskee, killing 3 people in the state.

September 23

1551: (possibly 1556): The deadliest tornado in European history hit the Grand Harbour of Malta, sinking at least 4 naval ships and killing at least 600 people.

September 24

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.

September 25

1963: Hurricane Edith struck the central Lesser Antilles. Ten people were killed on Martinique, and a wind gust of 127 miles per hour (204 km/h) was observed at Fort-de-France.

September 26

1959: Typhoon Vera, the strongest and deadliest typhoon to strike Japan on record, made landfall near Cape Shionomisaki, Honshu, killing more than 4,000 people.

September 27

1906: A major hurricane made landfall near Pascagoula, Mississippi, causing major damage as far east as Pensacola, Florida and killing 134 people.

September 28

1955: Hurricane Janet, one of the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall in recorded history, struck Belize (then known as British Honduras) as a category 5 storm, killing almost 700 people.

September 29

1915: A major hurricane struck New Orleans area, killing at least 275 people in the city and surrounding area.

September 30

2012: Hurricane Nadine, the fourth-longest-lived tropical cyclone on record in the Atlantic Ocean, reached peak intensity west of the Azores.