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September 1


September 2

  • 1947 – An F3 tornado moved along the road between Burgettstown and Eldersville, Pennsylvania, killing 2 people and injuring 20. Debris from one home was carried 4 miles (6.4 km). An F2 tornado killed one person in Brockton, Massachusetts.
  • 2002 – A small tornado outbreak hit Wisconsin. An F3 tornado tore through downtown Ladysmith, destroying 40 buildings and injuring 27 people. Damaged totaled $25 million. A poorly-anchored church was swept away. One other person was injured by an F1 tornado near Wausau. An F2 tornado caused $3.9 million in damage in Gilman.

September 3

  • 1993 – A small tornado outbreak hit the Northeastern United States. An F1 tornado near Batavia, New York threw a delivery van into an oncoming tractor trailer, killing the drivers of both vehicles.
  • 1980 – Several tornadoes touched down in the Upper Midwest and Arkansas. An F3 skipped across St. Cloud, Minnesota. One person was killed and 15 were injured, all in one trailer park where 13 mobile homes were destroyed. The tornado destroyed 6 homes, 14 trailers, and 16 apartments in another section of town.

September 4

  • 1941 – An F2 tornado moved across Minneapolis to Gervais Lake, killing 4 people and injuring 50. About 200 freight cars, some weighing 80,000 pounds (36,000 kg), were overturned.
  • 1948 – An F2 tornado, described as a "giant ice cream cone," hit Havana, Florida, killing two children.

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  • 1885 – A tornado outbreak resulted in at least seven deaths in Ohio. An F3 tornado damaged or destroyed about 300 buildings in Washington Court House, killing 6 people and injuring 120. Evidence from detailed studies indicates that a suction vortex moved within the main circulation, a phenomenon that was not proven until the 1970s. Another F3 tornado killed at least one person in Pike Township..

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  • 1811 – A tornado spawned by a hurricane hit Charleston, South Carolina, severely damaging or destroying 60 homes and killing 11 people.
  • 1882 – A hurricane spawned five tornadoes as it made landfall in the Florida Panhandle. An F2 tornado killed five people in tenant homes near Quincy. Another "pear-shaped" F2 tornado killed one person in Darbyville.

September 11

  • 1970 – A devastating F4 tornado hit Venice, Italy, killing 34 people and injuring 174, including 21 people who drowned when a vaporetto capsized.

September 12

  • 1961 – An F4 tornado spawned by Hurricane Carla began as a waterspout and tore through Galveston, Texas, killing eight people. Homes may have been weakened by hurricane winds. This was one of only two hurricane-spawned F4 tornadoes on record (the other was produced by Hurricane Hilda in 1964). No recorded hurricane has produced an F5 or EF5 tornado. An F3 tornado killed five people in Hodge, Louisiana.

September 13

  • 1892 – A small tornado outbreak associated with a tropical storm hit the Carolinas. An F2 tornado killed a prison guard and injured 15 prisoners near Halifax, North Carolina.

September 14

  • 1928 – Part of a two-day tornado outbreak, an F4 tornado killed 14 people and injured 100 in and near Rockford, Illinois. Most of the deaths and damage were in a chair factory, which partially collapsed after its roof was torn off.

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September 16

  • 1888 – An F2 tornado moved through downtown Washington D.C. and dissipated near Capitol Hill.
  • 1978 – An F3 tornado killed six people as it moved across rural land near Melbourne and Grinnell, Iowa. Many farms were destroyed. Four people died in a business area south of Grinnell.
  • 2010 – A tornado outbreak brought two tornadoes to New York City. An EF0 tornado downed trees in Brooklyn and an EF1 tornado killed a person in Queens when it brought a tree down on her car. Tornadoes affected several other northeastern states. An EF3 tornado killed one person in Belleville, West Virginia.

September 17

  • 1988 – Tornadoes associated with Hurricane Gilbert touched down across Texas. Three tornadoes hit San Antonio. An F1 tornado destroyed homes and trailers on the south side of the city, killing one person. Six other people were injured by the other two tornadoes. An F2 tornado caused significant damage in Del Rio, injuring two people.

September 18

  • 1997 – A small tornado outbreak hit central Minnesota. An F3 tornado killed one person and severely injured another south of Mille Lacs Lake.
  • 2006 – A tornado hit Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, killing three people and injuring 100. A train was derailed and 1,800 buildings were damaged. This was the deadliest tornado in Japan since 1941, but was surpassed when another tornado killed nine people on November 7.
  • 2022 — A small and intense tornado outbreak impacted Ukraine and Russia, killing three people and injuries eight others. Hundreds of structures were damaged or destroyed from the tornadoes.

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September 20

  • 1845 – A tornado outbreak hit parts of New York and Vermont. A large tornado, up to 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide, destroyed many homes and at least 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of forest as it passed near Antwerp, Fowler, and Edwards, New York. It, and other members of the tornado family became known as the "Great Adirondack Tornado." Another tornado temporarily drained the mouth of the Genesee River as it moved onto Lake Ontario. There were no deaths reported from this outbreak, but a child was reported missing.
  • 1967 – Hurricane Beulah made landfall near Brownsville, Texas and spawned 115 tornadoes over several days, the most produced by any tropical cyclone until Hurricane Ivan in 2004. An F3 tornado destroyed homes on the northern edge of Palacios, Texas, killing four people. An F2 tornado killed one person near Louise, Texas.
  • 2000 – An F4 tornado struck Xenia, Ohio, damaging or destroying 250 homes and 40 businesses, killing 1 person, and injuring 100. This storm damaged some of the same areas previously struck by an F5 tornado during the 1974 Super Outbreak.

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  • 1555 – A T7 (F3) tornado, originating as a waterspout, came a shore at the Grand Harbour in Malta, destroying an armada that was preparing for battle and killing approximately 600 people. Some sources list the year as 1551.
  • 1903 – A tornado struck an elementary school in Yodobashi, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan, killing 10 people and injuring 14.

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  • 1884 – An F3 tornado, described as "a monster top boring over the earth's surface" destroyed homes, businesses, a church, and a bridge in Alton, Pennsylvania north of Bradford. Twelve people were injured. An F3 tornado destroyed much of Shongo, New York (now called Willing), killing 3 people and injuring 30.
  • 1923 – An F3 tornado destroyed small homes on the southeast side of Council Bluffs, Iowa, killing six people and injuring ten. A mother and her three sons were crushed by a tree.
  • 1972 – An F4 tornado (rated F2 by Thomas P. Grazulis) hit North Chicago, Illinois, where it injured 20 people, most of them at the Great Lakes Naval Base.

September 29

  • 1927 – A strong tornado of at least F3 (probably F4) intensity devastated more than 200 city blocks in St. Louis, Missouri and crossed into Illinois, killing 79 people and injuring 550. Damage totaled $53 million (equivalent to $930 million in 2023).
  • 1938 – Five tornadoes struck the Charleston, South Carolina area with two F2 tornadoes killing a total of 32 people and injuring 100. The deadlier of the two crossed James Island and the Ashley River, killing 27. Many were crushed as buildings collapsed. The other killed five as it destroyed poorly-built homes in Charleston. Three other tornadoes from this event were rated F1.

September 30

  • 1959 – Hurricane Gracie spawned several tornadoes in Virginia and South Carolina. An F3 tornado destroyed a duplex in Crozet, Virginia, killing ten of the eleven people inside. One person was killed in another home, and four other people were injured. Another F3 tornado destroyed small buildings and the elementary school in Stanardsville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring nine.