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July 15, 1916: The 1916 Gulf Coast hurricane made landfall in Mississippi as a Category 3. [4] July 5, 1919: After making landfall in Florida as a tropical storm, a tropical depression entered Mississippi shortly before dissipating. [5] June 26, 1923: A minimal tropical storm made landfall in Mississippi. [5]
The Mississippi Gulf Coast consists of many cities that lie directly on the Mississippi Sound. The U. S. Census Bureau divided the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) for the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2003, which previously consisted of the three coastal counties (Hancock; Harrison; Jackson), into two MSAs that included two additional counties (George; Stone).
Now the region is headed into its wettest season: summer. Tropical activity plays a vital role in making it so. As much as 25% of annual rainfall for the Gulf Coast states comes from tropical ...
During the El Niño portion of ENSO, increased precipitation falls along the Gulf coast and Southeast due to a stronger than normal, and more southerly, polar jet stream. [43] In the area around Memphis, Tennessee and across the state of Mississippi, there are two rainfall maxima in the winter and spring.
Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast August 29, caused numerous deaths, severe property damage and power outages in that part of the region. Life-threatening storm surge
And while it’s far too early for the first signs of spring to show across much of the country, for the South it’s a different story. Spring ran two to three weeks late across the Gulf Coast.