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The 1938 New England Hurricane (also referred to as the Great Long Island - New England Hurricane and the Long Island Express Hurricane) [1] [2] was one of the deadliest and most destructive tropical cyclones to strike the United States.
The 1938 Atlantic hurricane season produced fifteen tropical cyclones, of which nine strengthened into tropical storms.Four storms intensified into hurricanes. Two of those four became major hurricanes, the equivalent of a Category 3 or greater storm on the modern day Saffir–Simpson scale.
The 1938 New England Hurricane (also referred to as the Great New England Hurricane, Long Island Express, and Yankee Clipper) was one of the deadliest and most destructive tropical cyclones to strike Long Island, New York, and New England.
Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn, seen here in a still from the 1940 film 'The Philadelphia Story,' had a brush with death in 1938 when a powerful unnamed hurricane slammed parts of Long Island ...
September 21, 1938: The New England hurricane of 1938 (also called "The Long Island Express") makes landfall on Suffolk County (Long Island) as a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale. [25] Wind gusts of 125 mph (200 km/h) and storm surge of 18 feet (5 m) washes across part of the island. [26]
The hurricane produced a peak storm surge of 24 feet and flattened nearly everything along the Mississippi coast. ... 1933"Tampico" - 1933"Labor Day" - 1935 "New England" - 1938"Great Atlantic ...
New England has seen its fair share of major ones from the Hurricane of 1938 to Hurricane Sandy. Here's a look at damages and landfall locations.
Shipping damage in Pensacola from 1906 hurricane. September 5, 1900 – The Great Galveston hurricane passes over or just to the west of the western Florida Keys as a tropical storm, producing tropical storm force winds throughout the state. Prior warning keeps nearly all ships in the state at port, and no damage is reported.