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However, tornado activity then went dormant until the last few days of the month as non-tornadic severe storms became the norm. August ended with a near average amount of 82 confirmed tornadoes. September was quiet for the majority of the month until the last week.
Disasters and accidents. 2024 Guangdong floods. Forty-eight people are killed and 30 more injured as twenty-three vehicles fell down during a highway collapse in Meizhou, Guangdong, China. 2024 Kenya floods. The death toll from ongoing flooding in Kenya increases to 181, as more homes and roads are destroyed. 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods
Costliest natural disaster in the United States prior to Hurricane Katrina. 1988 Wildfire: 2 $240 million Yellowstone fires of 1988: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 793,880 acres (36% of the park) was burned in the fires started by lightning. 1985 Hurricane: 9 $1.3 billion Hurricane Elena: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas ...
The civil protection agency, deployed during national disasters, did not issue an alert until 20:15 on Tuesday evening local time, by which time several places in Valencia had been flooded for hours.
The U.S. has had a record 25 weather disasters so far in 2023, each of which caused at least $1 billion in damage — and a new NASA analysis suggests the year’s extreme weather events may be ...
Story continues below photo gallery. April 20-22, 1963: Forest Fires Consume the Pine Barrens In April 1963, disaster struck the Pine Barrens as 37 major forest fires raged out of control after ...
Likely one of the best-known natural disasters on this list, Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 storm that included recorded winds of 100 to 140 mph. Katrina pounded some 400 miles of land with ...
[60] [61] The SoFi Stadium, which hosted the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship, experienced rain. [62] In Los Angeles, Union Station's main concourse flooded. [28] A waterspout moved ashore as an EF0 tornado in Carpinteria on March 21, inflicting minor damage to trees as well as about 25 homes in mobile home park and injuring ...