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September 24
 * 1900 – An F3 tornado struck in or near Morristown, Minnesota. Seven people, out of a group of twelve, died when the Saloon where they took shelter collapsed. One other person was killed in a barn.
 * 2001 – A tornado outbreak hit the Eastern United States. A destructive F3 tornado moved through Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C. including Beltsville and Laurel, and caused major damage to the University of Maryland campus. Two people were killed as a direct result of the tornado and 55 were injured. Another person died of a heart attack. The same storm spawned a weak tornado that caused minor damage in Washington and moved across the National Mall, lifting near the Capitol Building. An F4 tornado leveled a house near Rixeyville, Virginia and struck Jeffersonton.
 * 2005 – Hurricane Rita made landfall in southwestern Louisiana, spawning tornadoes in much of the Deep South. An F3 tornado caused damage in Clayton, Louisiana, and passed near Waterproof. An F1 tornado killed one person and seriously injured two near Inverness, Mississippi when it flipped and destroyed a mobile home.