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Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest, second-costliest, ... United States and Canada, the name Hazel was removed from the tropical storm naming list for 10 years, and ...
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 ...
The effects of Hurricane Hazel in Canada included 81 deaths and C$137,552,400 ($1,581,876,233.63 in 2023) in damages. Hazel, the deadliest and costliest storm of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season, reached Toronto, Ontario by the evening of October 15, 1954. It peaked as a category 4 storm, but by the time it had reached Canada, it was an ...
Hurricane Betsy was the first hurricane to have damages exceeding US$1 billion. In 1960, four rotating lists of names were developed to avoid creating new lists each year, while the practice of retiring any particularly damaging storm names for 10 years continued, with 11 names deemed significant enough to be retired during the decade.
Here's a list of the retired names according to the National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center. 1954: Carol and Hazel 1955: Connie, Diane, Ione and Janet
Given the name Hazel, the storm tracked north-northeastward, then northeastward through the Gulf of Mexico while gradually intensifying. On October 9, Hazel strengthened into a hurricane and made landfall just north of Fort Myers, Florida at its peak intensity of 85 mph (140 km/h). The storm crossed the state in about six hours, during which it ...
A cyclone affected the state in every year during the three decades, and in three seasons a total of five cyclones impacted the state. The strongest hurricane to hit the state during the time period was Hurricane Hazel, which struck the state as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale. Hazel was both the costliest and ...
October 15, 1954 – Hurricane Hazel caused hurricane-force winds and small portions with 6 inches (150 mm) or more of rain. [ 32 ] August 1955 – Hurricanes Connie and Diane both caused as much as 10 inches (250 mm) of rain and tropical storm force winds.