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September 23, 2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the border between Louisiana and Texas on September 23. [105] In preparation for its landfall, the largest evacuation in United States history takes place, with over 3 million people evacuating inland. [106]
August 27, 2020 – Hurricane Laura, as a high-end Category 4 hurricane, made landfall near the Louisiana–Texas border in Cameron Parish and simultaneously tied the 1856 Last Island hurricane as the strongest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall in Louisiana with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. Storm surge as high as 17 feet was ...
0–9. Tropical Depression Five (2010) 1812 Louisiana hurricane; 1831 Barbados–Louisiana hurricane; Racer's hurricane; 1856 Last Island hurricane; 1893 Cheniere Caminada hurricane
Here are the top 5 costliest hurricanes to hit Texas since 1851to 2010, according to data gathered by NOAA: Hurricane Ike (2008, Category 2): $29.52 billion Hurricane Rita (2005, Category 3): $12. ...
The 1977 Atlantic hurricane season was a very inactive Atlantic hurricane season, with only six named storms. The season officially began on Wednesday, June 1, 1977 and lasted until Wednesday, November 30, 1977. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the Atlantic basin.
In all, South Carolina tallied 32 hurricanes with five hurricanes with being a Category 3 or Category 4. The Palmetto State, data shows, has never been hit with a Category 5 hurricane. No. 4 ...
At the time, 38,000 people lived in Galveston, Texas. By the end of this Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds, 10,000 of them had lost their homes in the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
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