List of dust storms
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This is a list of significant dust storms.
Name | Date | Affected regions |
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Black Sunday | April 14, 1935, during the Dust Bowl | Texas Panhandle to the Oklahoma Panhandle, United States[note 1] |
Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977 | December 19-21, 1977 | Southern San Joaquin Valley, California |
1983 Melbourne dust storm | February 8, 1983 | Victoria, Australia |
1991 Interstate 5 dust storm | November 29, 1991 | San Joaquin Valley, California |
2009 Australian dust storm | September 23, 2009 | South Australia to inland New South Wales, Australia |
2010 China drought and dust storms | Spring 2010 | China and parts of Southeast Asia |
2014 Tehran dust storm | June 2, 2014 | Tehran, Iran |
2018 Indian dust storms | ||
2021 East Asia sandstorm | March 2021 | Mongolia, China and South Korea |
2022 Iraq dust storms | Iraq | |
2023 East Asia sandstorm | April 2023 | China, Japan, South Korea and Thailand |
Notes
[edit]- ^ The prevalent months for a National Weather Service dust storm warning to be issued for a dust storm originating from the Texas South Plains area is during the months of October through June--the least likely being the summer months of July through September.
References
[edit]See also
[edit]- Dust Bowl, a period of severe dust storms in the 1930s affecting the United States and Canada