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1930s. September 28–October 1, 1932 –A hurricane traversed most of the Gulf of California, spreading rainfall across California over four days. Tehachapi recorded 7.11 in (181 mm) of rainfall, of which more than half was recorded over a seven hour period. The rains produced flash flooding that killed 15 people.
The biggest example of a retired hurricane name in the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 hurricane which devastated Louisiana and other southern states and killed almost 1,900 people in ...
August 29, 1951: A tropical storm made landfall in the northern part of the peninsula. [7] July 17, 1954: A hurricane made landfall on the peninsula. [8] October 5, 1957: A hurricane made landfall on the peninsula. [9] September 11, 1958: A tropical storm made landfall and passed north-northwest over the peninsula.
Hurricane names: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's hurricane list includes 147 names. Find out all the names on the list for 2024.
Clement Wragge was the pioneer in naming storms. The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with systems named after places, people (like Roman Catholic saints), or things they hit before the formal start of naming in each basin. [1][2][3] Examples include the 1526 San Francisco hurricane (named after ...
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Tropical cyclones and subtropical cyclones are named by various warning centers to simplify communication between forecasters and the general public regarding forecasts, watches and warnings. The names are intended to reduce confusion in the event of concurrent storms in the same basin. Once storms develop sustained wind speeds of more than 33 ...
List of California hurricanes * 1939 California tropical storm; 0–9. 1858 San Diego hurricane; 1941 Cabo San Lucas hurricane; A. Hurricane Ava; B. Hurricane Blanca ...