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Typhoon Cobra, also known as the Typhoon of 1944 or Halsey's Typhoon (named after Admiral William Halsey Jr.), was the United States Navy designation for a powerful tropical cyclone that struck the United States Pacific Fleet in December 1944, during World War II. The storm sank three destroyers, killed 790 sailors, damaged 9 other warships ...
The 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane was a destructive and powerful tropical cyclone that swept across a large portion of the United States East Coast in September 1944. New England was most affected, though so were the Outer Banks, Mid-Atlantic states, and the Canadian Maritimes.
Operation Hurricane was a 24-hour bombing operation to "demonstrate to the enemy in Germany generally the overwhelming superiority of the Allied Air Forces in this theatre" (in the directive to Harris ACO RAF Bomber Command) [4] and "cause mass panic and disorginazation [] in the Ruhr, disrupt frontline communications and demonstrate the futility of resistance" (in the words of the Official ...
This is a table of all the storms that have formed in the 1943 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s), denoted in parentheses, damage, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm.
The 1942 Matagorda hurricane was the most intense and costliest tropical cyclone of the 1942 Atlantic hurricane season.The second tropical storm and hurricane, as well as the first major hurricane of the year, [nb 1] it originated from a tropical wave near the island of St. Lucia on August 21.
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The 1942 Atlantic hurricane season was one of seven seasons to feature multiple hurricane landfalls in Texas. [1] The season officially lasted from June 16, 1942, to October 31, 1942. [ 2 ] These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane about 11:10 p.m. ET near Perry, Florida, with 140 mph winds, the National Hurricane Center reported. At least 22 fatalities have been blamed on the ...