This is a list of significant dust storms.
Name | Date | Affected regions | ||
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Black Sunday | April 14, 1935, during the Dust Bowl | Texas Panhandle to the Oklahoma Panhandle, United States | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||||
2021 East Asia sandstorm | March 2021 | Mongolia, China and South Korea | ||
2022 Iraq dust storms | Iraq | |||
2023 East Asia sandstorm | April 2023 | China, Japan, South Korea and Thailand |