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Extensive farming combined with severe drought caused the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. Deep plowing on the Great Plains killed the natural grasses that kept soil in place, and the topsoil turned to dust and blew away.
Technically, the driest region of the Plains â southeastern Colorado, southwest Kansas and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas â became known as the Dust Bowl, and many dust storms started there. But the entire region, and eventually the entire country, was affected. The Dust Bowl got its name after Black Sunday, April 14, 1935. More and more dust storms had been blowing up in the years leading up to that day. In 1932, 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains. In 1933, there were 38 storms. By 1934, it was estimated that 100 million acres of farmland had lost all or most of the topsoil to the winds.