August 1 edit
1982: Typhoon Bess struck the Japanese island of Honshū, killing 59 people.
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1922: A typhoon made landfall near Swatow, China late at night, killing 50,000 of the city's 65,000 residents.
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2008: A rare F4 (T8) tornado struck the town of Hautmont, France, killing three people.
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1980: Hurricane Allen reached category 5 strength for the first time in the late evening. Allen was at this strength for a total of almost three days, the longest of any Atlantic hurricane on record, and the third-longest in the world.
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2011: Typhoon Muifa passed through Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, bringing up to 41 inches (1,000 mm) of rain and sustained winds of 65 knots (75 mph; 120 km/h) to Okinawa Island.
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1879: The easternmost major tornado ever recorded in North America struck Bouctouche, New Brunswick, killing 5 people.
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2014: Hurricane Iselle, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike the Big Island of Hawaii, made landfall along the Kau coast.
August 8 edit
2010: Heavy rain and flooding led to catastrophic mudslides which killed more than 1,400 people in Zhugqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China. This was part of a larger series of floods and mudslides which killed more than 3,000 people across southern and central China over the summer.
August 9 edit
1993: The NOAA-13 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The satellite only operated for 12 days before a short circuit resulted in a loss of contact and the end of its mission.
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1856: A hurricane destroyed a resort on Last Island, Louisiana, killing more than 200 people.
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1940: A hurricane made landfall near Beaufort, South Carolina, killing 50 people.
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1993: Hurricane Fernanda reached peak intensity over the northeastern Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (233 km/h). It would bring high waves to the Hawaiian Islands, but only caused minimal damage.
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1916: The dam holding back Lake Toxaway in Transylvania County, North Carolina failed due to severe flooding.
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1932: A major hurricane, one of the strongest on record to strike Texas, made landfall near Freeport, killing 40 people.
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2008: A tornado outbreak began in southern and central Poland, killing 4 people and damaging hundreds of buildings.
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1950: Hurricane Hiki reached peak intensity as it passed north of Hawaii. At least 52 inches (1,300 mm) of rain was measured on Kauai; the number may have been higher, as the rain gauge overflowed.
August 17 edit
2012: Typhoon Kai-tak made landfall on the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong, China, causing major economic damage across the province.
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2011: A lightning strike sparked the Pagami Creek Fire in northern Minnesota. It would eventually burn 92,000 acres (370 km2), making it the largest naturally occurring fire in the state in more than 100 years.
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1848: More than 100 ships were lost and 100 fishermen were killed in a severe gale on the east coast of Scotland.
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2009: Eighteen tornadoes touched down in southern Ontario, marking the most extensive tornado outbreak in Canadian history.
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1918: 36 people were killed when a tornado struck Tyler, Minnesota.
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1933: The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane struck the Outer Banks late in the evening, killing as many as 30 people.
August 23 edit
1962: The first successful satellite of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, a series of weather satellites built and used by the United States Department of Defense, was launched. While classified at the time, later satellites in the program provided public data used for numerical weather prediction for several decades.
August 24 edit
1956: Severe flooding began in Mannum, South Australia, after a levee broke outside of town.
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1635: A major hurricane struck southeastern New England, killing more than 46 people.
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1995: As part of a hyperactive hurricane season, 5 tropical cyclones existed in the Atlantic basin simultaneously, the only time in history this has ever occurred.
August 27 edit
1989: Hurricane Kiko struck the southern tip of Baja California as a category 3 hurricane, but caused no deaths.
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1983: Hurricane Barry made landfall about 35 miles (56 km) south of the Texas border, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Hundreds of homes were destroyed, but no one was killed.
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2021: Hurricane Ida, one of the strongest hurricanes on record to strike the state of Louisiana, made landfall near Port Fourchon with maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour (240 km/h).
August 30 edit
2003: A flash flood along Jacobs Creek killed 6 people on Interstate 35 in Kansas, near the town of Emporia.
August 31 edit
1971: Hurricane Lily struck western Mexico, causing devastating flooding in Puerto Vallarta.