From NWS
1959: Much of eastern, southeastern, and southern Iowa was swept by strong wind storms as a squall line preceded a cold front. The storms did considerable damage to crops and property and injured three people. At Cedar Rapids 17 aircraft were destroyed at the airport and at Waterloo winds gusted to around 90 mph. The storms also produced heavy rain and flooding at some southern Iowa locations, with rainfall amounts ranging up to 2.95 inches at Lamoni.

26 September 1881 → Japan’s deadliest tornado occurred when 16 people were killed at Miyazaki, near the southern tip of the country. The elementary school was destroyed. 26 September 1898 → A school teacher saved 40 children from death in Merritton, Ontario, when she spotted an approaching tornado and led her students to a safe corner. Unfortunately, falling debris killed one of the children and injured several others. 26 September 1955 → The U.S. Navy Neptune P2V-3W plane had a mission when it took off in the morning: obtain observations in Hurricane Janet in the Caribbean. After their 8:30 a.m. report, no other communication was ever received from them again. No trace of the plane or of the crew was ever found. 26 September 1959 → The passage of Typhoon Vera over Japan was the country’s greatest storm disaster to that date. The death toll reached nearly 5000, with 1.5 million homeless. The typhoon dealt a staggering blow to the economy with tremendous damage to roads, bridges and communications from wind, floods and landslides.

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