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A Mississippi hurricane is a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that affected the U.S. state of Mississippi. From 1851 to the present, 108 tropical cyclones have passed through Mississippi. From 1851 to the present, 108 tropical cyclones have passed through Mississippi.
1906 Mississippi hurricane; 1909 Grand Isle hurricane; 1916 Gulf Coast hurricane; 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane; 1960 Texas tropical storm; 1987 Gulf Coast tropical ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
The Sunshine State tops the list at No. 1, tallying 120 hurricanes (37 were Category 3 through Category 5). Two of them − Hurricane Michael in October of 2018 and Hurricane Andrew in August of ...
List of Mississippi hurricanes; M. March 2015 North American winter storm; N. 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes; S. New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm;
The 2018 version of the list included Hurricane Michael which was retired following the 2018 season. Like the successor, Hurricane Michael was a historic storm for Florida in October 2018.
August 12–13, 1860: The 1860 Mississippi hurricane, after making landfall in Mississippi, moved over Alabama as a Category 1. [2] September 14–16, 1860: A hurricane made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2. It damaged the coast from landfall to Mobile, Alabama, which lost $1 million in cotton stored on flooded wharves, just a month after ...
The hurricane produced a peak storm surge of 24 feet and flattened nearly everything along the Mississippi coast. It caused an estimated $1.42 billion in damages (more than $12 billion in 2024 ...