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Black Sunday was a particularly serious dust storm
Dust storm

A dust storm or sandstorm is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions and arises when a gust front passes or when the wind force exceeds the threshold value where loose sand and dust are removed from the dry surface....
, or black blizzard, that took place during the Dust bowl
Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agriculture damage to United States and Canada prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 ....
 era on April 14, 1935. The storm began in the mid afternoon. A long drought during the first half of the 1930's, combined with a lack of knowledge of conservation techniques, caused excessive topsoil erosion on farmlands in the mid-west. Disastrous dust storms like these forced many farmers to leave their homes and try to start a new life elsewhere, especially California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
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Black Sunday was a particularly serious dust storm
Dust storm

A dust storm or sandstorm is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions and arises when a gust front passes or when the wind force exceeds the threshold value where loose sand and dust are removed from the dry surface....
, or black blizzard, that took place during the Dust bowl
Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agriculture damage to United States and Canada prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 ....
 era on April 14, 1935. The storm began in the mid afternoon. A long drought during the first half of the 1930's, combined with a lack of knowledge of conservation techniques, caused excessive topsoil erosion on farmlands in the mid-west. Disastrous dust storms like these forced many farmers to leave their homes and try to start a new life elsewhere, especially California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. The storm itself was created by a combination the dry topsoil, and fast winds
WIND

The Global Geospace Science WIND satellite is a NASA science spacecraft launched at 04:31:00 EST on November 1, 1994 from launch pad 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Merritt_Island%2C_Florida, Florida aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta II 7925-10 rocket....
, that were measured to be at 60 mph.