1935 - "Black Blizzard" strikes Amarillo, TX
This Date in Weather History - March 15, 2020
This Date in Weather History · AccuWeather
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During the drought of the 1930s, the unanchored soil turned to dust, which the prevailing winds blew away in huge clouds that sometimes blackened the sky. These choking billows of dust – named "black blizzards". On March 15, 1935 one of the worst of these black blizzards stuck Amarillo, Texas with Suffocating dust;6 people died, many livestock starved or suffocated. Dust lay 6 feet deep in places.
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