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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.
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 ...
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Hurricane Camille. Year: 1969. Death Toll: 259. Financial Impact: $1.4 billion (1969 dollars), equivalent to ~$10 billion today. With winds reaching 175 mph, this Category 5 hurricane devastated ...
In 1969, Hurricane Camille dropped 27 inches of rain on Nelson County, ... They fled their homes into rain falling so hard one survivor said he had to cup his hands over his face just to breathe.
August 18, 1969– Hurricane Camille strikes southern Mississippi as a Category 5 hurricane, with its large wind field producing a 71 mph (114 km/h) wind gust and 3.55 inches (90 mm) of rain in Pensacola. [38] The hurricane causes minor crop damage to pecan trees and corn stalks. [39]
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]
The deadliest hurricanes, based on National Hurricane Center information, are listed below by their rank, name, year and number of deaths. Katrina - 2005, 1,392. Audrey - 1957, 416. Camille - 1969 ...