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.

1995: Hurricane Ismael struck the Mexican state of Sinaloa, killing 116 people.

1997: Typhoon Oliwa made landfall at Makurazaki, Kagoshima, Japan. Twelve people were killed by the storm.

2004: The outer rainbands of Hurricane Ivan began spawning tornadoes in the Southeastern United States. This tornado outbreak, the second-largest ever caused by a tropical cyclone, killed 7 people.

2016: Typhoon Meranti, one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record at its peak, made landfall at Xiamen, Fujian, China, killing 47 people in China and Taiwan.