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[edit] March 4
1899: Cyclone Mahina, the worst tropical cyclone in Australian history, killed more than 400 in Far North Queensland.
[edit] March 7
1717: The Great Snow of 1717 finally came to an end, after a week of heavy snow buried areas of the Northeastern United States with 5 feet (1.5 m) of snow or more.
2004: Cyclone Gafilo, the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the southern Indian Ocean, made landfall in Madagascar as a Category 5 storm.
[edit] March 12
1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 began dropping snow on the Northeastern United States. Eventually snow would drift as high as 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 m), and 400 people would perish.
1993: What became known as the Storm of the Century began causing major damage across a large portion of the Southeastern United States and Cuba with heavy snows, strong winds, a storm surge, and tornadoes. The storm would eventually go on to have a major impact on the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada,and kill 300 people.
[edit] March 13
1990: One of the most severe tornado outbreaks of all time struck the Great Plains, producing 4 violent tornadoes and killing 57 people.
[edit] March 14
2006: A dam holding back the Ka Loko Reservoir on the island of Kauai burst due to extremely heavy rains, resulting as many as seven deaths.
[edit] March 17
1936: An extreme flood strikes Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
[edit] March 18
1925: The Tri-State Tornado, the longest-tracked tornado in history, killed almost 700 people in the United States Midwest.
[edit] March 23
1913: A tornado struck the city of Omaha, Nebraska on Easter Sunday, killing more than 100 people.
[edit] March 27
1977: Two airplanes collide in heavy fog on a runway at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, resulting in the deaths of 583 passengers. Known as the Tenerife disaster it is the deadliest weather-related air disaster in world history.
[edit] March 28
1913: A tornado outbreak killed more than 200 in a large portion of the central United States.
1984: Several destructive tornadoes killed 57 people in North and South Carolina.
2004: Cyclone Catarina, the only known severe tropical cyclone ever to form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, made landfall north of Torres, Brazil. More than $350 million (USD) in damage and as many as 10 deaths were caused by the storm.
