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November 17
[edit]1999: Hurricane Lenny made landfall on Saint Croix. It was an unusual storm in many ways, striking the island as the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record for the month of November, while moving in an unprecedented west-to-east direction through the Caribbean.
2013: An outbreak of 72 tornadoes killed 8 people and caused more than $1 billion in damage in the Midwestern United States.
2017: Cyclone Numa became a subtropical cyclone in an unusual location: the western Mediterranean Sea.