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Hurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone which became the second most intense on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of the four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S.
The only hurricane that was more intense was the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane which hit the Florida Keys. Camille was so intense, Libby Hartfield of Bolton thought there was a good chance she and her ...
In 1969, Hurricane Camille dropped 27 inches of rain on Nelson County, ... They fled their homes into rain falling so hard one survivor said he had to cup his hands over his face just to breathe.
Hurricane Camille. Year: 1969. Death Toll: 259. Financial Impact: $1.4 billion (1969 dollars), equivalent to ~$10 billion today. With winds reaching 175 mph, this Category 5 hurricane devastated ...
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August 18, 1969: Hurricane Camille made landfall near Bay St. Louis as a Category 5 with sustained winds estimated at 175 mph and a central pressure of 900 mb. [4] This made Camille the strongest hurricane to strike the state, and the second strongest to make landfall in the continental United States, behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. [18]
Hurricane Camille 1969. Hurricane Camille is one of only four Category 5 hurricanes to ever make landfall in the continental U.S. since 1900. Camille made landfall along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Radar image of Hurricane Camille on August 17. The 1969 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1. [1] Of the twenty-three tropical cyclones that developed in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1969, eighteen of them intensified into tropical storms; [2] this was above the 1950–2000 average of 9.6 named storms. [3]