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May 18

1902: A tornado killed 114 in Goliad, Texas.

1927: Weeks of heavy rain and snowmelt caused a natural dam that had formed from a landslide 2 years earlier to give way, causing a flood that wiped out the town of Kelly, Wyoming and killed 6 people.

1986: Cyclone Namu, the worst tropical cyclone ever to affect the Solomon Islands, killed 150 people as it passed through the island nation.

1988: Cyclone Herbie, an unusually late tropical cyclone for the Southern Hemisphere, formed in the southern Indian Ocean.