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Hazel's rainfall amounts across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, including Pennsylvania Hurricane Agnes over Pennsylvania. September 1, 1952 – Tropical Storm Able affected Pennsylvania as a tropical storm and tropical depression after making landfall in South Carolina as a hurricane. [31]
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest, second-costliest, and most intense hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed at least 469 people in Haiti before it struck the United States near the border between North and South Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane .
The 83 mph (134 km/h) wind gust measured in Berks was the strongest on record, surpassing the 82 mph (132 km/h) gusts recorded during Hurricane Hazel. [7] Social media footage from the storm showed funnel clouds in Philadelphia and hail in State College, Pennsylvania. [8]
Hurricane Hazel. Year: 1954. Death Toll: 95 (in the U.S.) Financial Impact: $382 million (1954 dollars), equivalent to ~$3.8 billion today. This Category 4 storm killed at least 469 people in ...
As Hurricane Florence looms off the eastern coast of the U.S., it is drawing comparisons to 1954’s Hurricane Hazel, one of the deadliest and costliest storms to hit the southeastern U.S. that ...
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September 16, 1903 – A hurricane made landfall on Atlantic City with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) hurricane, making it the most recent hurricane to directly strike the state. Dubbed by the Atlantic City Press as the Vagabond hurricane , the storm gathered media interest from Philadelphia and New York, with one newspaper offering $200,000 (1903 ...
[2] [27] At the 1969 Hurricane Warning Conference, the National Hurricane Center requested that Carol, Edna, Hazel, and Inez be permanently retired due to their importance to the research community. [2] [28] This request was subsequently accepted and led to today's practice of retiring names of significant tropical cyclones permanently.