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The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, sweeps across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
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Black Sunday (storm)
1935 dust storm in Oklahoma
Black Sunday was a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl in the United States. It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and caused immense economic and agricultural damage. It is estimated that 300,000 tons of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Dust Bowl
1930s period of severe dust storms in North America
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Oklahoma panhandle
Strip in north-western Oklahoma, U.S.
The Oklahoma panhandle is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its constituent counties are, from west to east, Cimarron, Texas and Beaver. As with other salients in the United States, its name comes from the similarity of its shape to the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Texas panhandle
Region in Texas, United States
The Texas panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a square-shaped area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east. It is adjacent to the Oklahoma Panhandle, land which…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)