Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Hurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone which became the second most intense on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of the four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S.
Hurricane Camille is the sixth strongest hurricane on record. Camille is the only storm to have been moved down the list due to post-storm analysis. Camille was originally recognized as the fifth strongest hurricane on record, but was dropped to the seventh strongest in 2014, with an estimated pressure at 905 mbars, tying it with Hurricanes ...
Ten Atlantic hurricanes—Camille, Allen, Andrew, Isabel, Ivan, Dean, Felix, Irma, Maria, and Milton—reached Category 5 intensity on more than one occasion; that is, by reaching Category 5 intensity, weakening to a Category 4 status or lower, and then becoming a Category 5 hurricane again. Such hurricanes have their dates shown together.
Track Map of Hurricane Audrey, Saffir–Simpson Scale, 1957 ... Lanes of U.S. Highway 90 From Hurricane Camille, 1969. ... intense hurricane in U.S. history, with barometric pressure reaching ...
August 18, 1969: Hurricane Camille made landfall near Bay St. Louis as a Category 5 with sustained winds estimated at 175 mph and a central pressure of 900 mb. [4] This made Camille the strongest hurricane to strike the state, and the second strongest to make landfall in the continental United States, behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. [18 ...
The only hurricane that was more intense was the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane which hit the Florida Keys. Camille was so intense, Libby Hartfield of Bolton thought there was a good chance she and her ...
At the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Director Robert Simpson examined the destruction in the Gulf and decided that the U.S. needed a much simpler warning system for hurricane strength.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us