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 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 2021 East Asia sandstorm March 2021 Mongolia, China and South Korea2022 Iraq dust stormsIraq2023 East Asia sandstorm April 2023China, Japan, South Korea and Thailand 2025 Chicago dust storm May 16, 2025 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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See also Dust Bowl, a period of severe dust storms in the 1930s affecting the United States and Canada