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The 1939 California tropical storm, also known as the 1939 Long Beach tropical storm, and El Cordonazo (referring to the Cordonazo winds or the "Lash of St. Francis" (Spanish: el cordonazo de San Francisco)), was a tropical cyclone that affected Southern California in September 1939. Formerly classified a hurricane, [1] it was the first ...
The 1939 California tropical storm, also called the 1939 Long Beach Tropical Storm, El Cordonazo, The Lash of St. Francis was a tropical cyclone that hit Southern California in September, 1939. Formerly a hurricane, it is the only known tropical storm to make landfall in California in the twentieth century. The only other tropical cyclone to ...
The 1939 Pacific hurricane season ran through the summer and fall of 1939. ... The flooding caused major damage in Mecca, California, and 3 feet (0.91 m) ...
Long before Hurricane Hilary, 'El Cordonazo' or 'the Lash of St. Francis' devastated Long Beach and San Pedro in September 1939.
September 4–7, 1939 – A hurricane struck the northern Baja California peninsula and interacted with a shortwave trough, bringing produced rainfall across southern California. The highest total was 6.33 in (161 mm) at Brawley, which was more than twice the average annual rainfall. There was heavy damage in the Coachella Valley in Mecca.
Hurricane Hilary made landfall in Mexico's Baja California Peninsula on Aug. 20, 2023, and was tracked from San Diego to east of Fresno as a tropical storm. No tropical storm has officially made ...
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The 1939 Atlantic hurricane season was the least active since 1930. The season had below normal activity, with only six tropical storms , of which three became hurricanes and one became a major hurricane, equivalent to Category 3 status or higher on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson scale . [ 1 ]