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A Mississippi hurricane is a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that affected the U.S. state of Mississippi. From 1851 to the present, 108 tropical cyclones have passed through Mississippi. From 1851 to the present, 108 tropical cyclones have passed through Mississippi.
The most intense storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, Camille originated as a tropical depression on August 14, south of Cuba, from a long-tracked tropical wave. Located in a favorable environment for strengthening, the storm quickly intensified into a Category 2 hurricane before striking the western part of Cuba on August 15.
Radar image of Hurricane Camille on August 17. The 1969 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1. [1] Of the twenty-three tropical cyclones that developed in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1969, eighteen of them intensified into tropical storms; [2] this was above the 1950–2000 average of 9.6 named storms. [3]
Hurricane Camille. Year: 1969. Death Toll: 259. Financial Impact: $1.4 billion ... Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia. It was the second-most intense hurricane in U.S. history, with barometric ...
In 1969, Hurricane Camille ... as Camille’s nearly 200 mile-per-hour winds wrought unprecedented devastation while driving north through Mississippi. Mercifully, due to its incredible force ...
Hurricane Camille in 1969. ... The hurricane produced a peak storm surge of 24 feet and flattened nearly everything along the Mississippi coast. It caused an estimated $1.42 billion in damages ...
Hurricane Ian was the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida ... Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky 1985 ... 1969 Hurricane: 256 $1.42 ...
When you mention hurricanes, the first thing that comes to many Mississippians' minds is Hurricane Katrina which struck in 2005, but on August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille made landfall and for the ...