September 1[edit]
1962: Typhoon Wanda struck Hong Kong, killing 434 people.
September 2[edit]
1935: The Labor Day Hurricane, the strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States, passed over the Florida Keys, killing as many as 600 people.
September 3[edit]
1969: Hurricane Francelia made landfall near Punta Gorda, Belize (then British Honduras). Severe flooding and landslides over the next several days would killed 271 people in Guatemala and El Salvador.
September 4[edit]
1993: Typhoon Yancy made its third landfall on Japan, on Hiroshima Prefecture. Yancy killed 48 people throughout the country.
September 5[edit]
1978: Hurricane Norman made landfall in southern California as a weak tropical depression, one of only a few tropical cyclones on record to do so. The storm's remnants would produce a rare late-summer snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains that killed 4 hikers.
September 6[edit]
2017: Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Virgin Islands at peak intensity, with sustained winds of up to 180 miles per hour (290 km/h), killing several people and causing catastrophic damage.
September 7[edit]
1950: Hurricane Dog reached its peak intensity with a central pressure of 948 millibars (27.99 inHg).
September 8[edit]
2016: INSAT-3DR, a weather satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation, was launched into geostationary orbit.
September 9[edit]
1965: Hurricane Betsy struck New Orleans, flooding parts of the city. Betsy was the first hurricane ever to cause more than $1 billion (1965 USD) in damage.
September 10[edit]
1931: A major hurricane killed as many as 2,500 people in Belize.
September 11[edit]
1995: Hurricane Marilyn began a three-day track through the Leeward Islands, causing more than $1 billion in damage.
September 12[edit]
1997: Hurricane Linda, one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the eastern Pacific Ocean, passed near Socorro Island with maximum sustained winds of 160 knots (185 mph; 295 km/h).
September 13[edit]
1944: The Somers-class destroyer USS Warrington was sunk by a storm dubbed The Great Atlantic Hurricane off the coast of The Bahamas. Of the 321 officers and crew aboard, only 73 were rescued.
September 14[edit]
2014: Hurricane Odile, the most intense tropical cyclone to make landfall on the Baja California Peninsula in the satellite era, struck near Cabo San Lucas with maximum sustained winds of 110 knots (125 mph; 205 km/h).
September 15[edit]
1993: Hurricane Gert (at the time only a weak tropical storm) made landfall in northern Nicaragua. The storm would slowly move across Honduras, Belize, and Mexico over the next several days, dumping rain that led to widespread flooding that killed more than 100 people across Central America.
September 16[edit]
1984: Tropical Storm Fran passed just south of the Cape Verde islands, causing severe flooding that killed at least 29 people.
September 17[edit]
2010: Hurricane Karl, the strongest hurricane on record in the Bay of Campeche, made landfall near Veracruz, Mexico, killing 22 people.
September 18[edit]
1974: Hurricane Fifi began skimming the northern coast of Honduras, eventually killing at least 8,000 people and causing $4 billion (2007 USD) in damage.
September 19[edit]
1914: A tropical storm, the only tropical cyclone of the 1914 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated over coastal Louisiana. This was the least active Atlantic hurricane season on record.
September 20[edit]
1995: Hurricane Juliette, the strongest hurricane of the 1995 Pacific hurricane season, reached peak intensity over the open ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour (240 km/h).
September 21[edit]
2011: Typhoon Roke made landfall near Hamamatsu, Japan, the second typhoon to affect the area in just a few weeks.
September 22[edit]
1989: Hurricane Hugo, the most damaging tropical cyclone in US history at the time, made landfall on Isle of Palms, South Carolina.
September 23[edit]
1983: Typhoon Forrest, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in recorded history, reached peak intensity over the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 205 km/h (125 mph) and a minimum central pressure of 885 mbar (26.1 inHg)
September 24[edit]
1988: The NOAA-11 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit.
September 25[edit]
1933: A major hurricane made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula near Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, killing more than 180 people
September 26[edit]
2016: The SCATSAT-1 weather satellite, operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation, was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
September 27[edit]
1984: Hurricane Norbert, after moving in an unusual spiraling path over the eastern Pacific Ocean for nearly two weeks, dissipated over the Baja California Peninsula.
September 28[edit]
1955: Hurricane Janet, one of the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall in recorded history, struck Belize (then known as British Honduras) as a category 5 storm, killing almost 700 people.
September 29[edit]
2003: Hurricane Juan hit Halifax, Nova Scotia, the strongest storm to strike the area in over 100 years.
September 30[edit]
2006: Record rainfall led to the collapse of the Gusau Dam in Zamfara, Nigeria, killing 40 people.