List of dust storms

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This is a list of significant dust storms.

Name Date Affected regions
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

Notes
  1. 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.

One of the last dust storm happened yesterday. Thursday,January 14 2021.

References

    See also
    • Dust Bowl, a period of severe dust storms in the 1930s affecting the United States and Canada
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