Portal:Weather/On this day list/June
June 1: Start of the Central Pacific and Atlantic hurricane seasons
[edit]1988: Tropical Depression One brought over 40 inches (100 cm) of rain to parts of Cuba, killing 37 people due to flooding.
June 2
[edit]1990: Thirty-seven tornadoes struck the US state of Indiana, the most ever recorded in that state in a single day.
June 3
[edit]2010: Cyclone Phet made landfall near Al Ashkharah, Oman, causing major flooding in the desert nation.
June 4
[edit]1958: A tornado outbreak killed 28 people in Wisconsin, including 21 deaths from a single F5 tornado.
June 5
[edit]1972: The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began in Stockholm, Sweden.
June 6
[edit]1973: Hurricane Ava became the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record in the Pacific Ocean.
June 7
[edit]1997: Cyclone Keli formed in the South Pacific Ocean, the first tropical cyclone ever recorded in the month of June in that region.
June 8
[edit]1966: A tornado, one of the costliest in history, tracked across Topeka, Kansas, destroying a large portion of the city and killing 18 people.
June 9
[edit]1972: Intense rainfall led to the failure of Canyon Lake Dam along Rapid Creek near Rapid City, South Dakota. The resulting flooding killed 238 people and caused over $160 million in damage.
June 10
[edit]1682: The first known tornado in the history of Connecticut caused severe tree damage in the southwestern part of the state.
June 11
[edit]2007: A series of mudslides after days of heavy rain killed more than 100 people in and around the city of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
June 12
[edit]1899: The New Richmond tornado completely destroyed the village of New Richmond, Wisconsin.
June 13
[edit]1977: A tropical cyclone made landfall on Masirah Island, Oman, killing more than 100 people in the country.
June 14
[edit]2018: Hurricane Bud made landfall as a weak tropical storm in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
June 15
[edit]1892: A violent tornado killed 12 people in Southern Minnesota.
June 16
[edit]1977: The GOES 2 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program for providing data for weather forecasting by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, GOES 2 would be followed by the launch of GOES 3 satellite exactly one year later.
June 17
[edit]1971: Hurricane Bridget reached peak intensity just off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico, killing 17 people in the area.
June 18
[edit]1982: A subtropical storm struck eastern Florida, causing flooding and tornadoes which killed three people.
June 19
[edit]1835: A tornado struck the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey, destroying nearly 150 houses and killing 5 people. This was the deadliest tornado in the history of the state.
June 20
[edit]2010: An F2 tornado struck the downtown area of Billings, Montana, causing major damage but only minor injuries.
June 21
[edit]1989: Hurricane Cosme made landfall near Acapulco. Major flooding occurred due to the storm's large size, and 30 people were killed.
June 22
[edit]2007: The first F5 tornado in Canadian history struck the town of Elie, Manitoba.
June 23
[edit]1544: Artemius of Verkola, a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church, was killed by lightning.
June 24
[edit]2002: The NOAA-17 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit.
June 25
[edit]1953: Heavy rainfall that would last for more than 3 days began over northern Kyushu, Japan, causing deadly flooding that would kill more than 1,000 people.
June 26
[edit]1959: The first WSR-57 weather radar went online in Miami, Florida.
June 27
[edit]1979: The NOAA-6 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit. NOAA-6 returned a wide variety of observations of the earth, atmosphere, oceans, and space until its decommissioning in 1987.
June 28
[edit]2019: A severe heat wave across southern France culminated with a national-record high temperature of 46.0 °C (114.8 °F) measured at Vérargues, Hérault, nearly 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) higher than the previous record.
June 29
[edit]2012: A severe derecho killed 28 people and caused almost $3 billion in damage in the eastern United States.
June 30
[edit]1792: The first known tornado in Canadian history caused severe damage to forests on the Niagara Peninsula.