Portal:Tornadoes/Anniversaries/September 16

September 16
 * 1888 – An F2 tornado moved through downtown Washington D.C. and dissipated near Capitol Hill.
 * 1978 – An F3 tornado killed six people as it moved across rural land near Melbourne and Grinnell, Iowa. Many farms were destroyed. Four people died in a business area south of Grinnell.
 * 2010 – A tornado outbreak brought two tornadoes to New York City. An EF0 tornado downed trees in Brooklyn and an EF1 tornado killed a person in Queens when it brought a tree down on her car. Tornadoes affected several other northeastern states. An EF3 tornado killed one person in Belleville, West Virginia.