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Strong winds caused "considerable" destruction in Mississippi City and Biloxi. [3] [4] September 16, 1855: The Middle Gulf Shore hurricane made landfall in Mississippi as a Category 3. [4] August 12, 1856: The 1856 Last Island hurricane moved into Mississippi as a tropical storm shortly before dissipating. [5]
Upon making landfall, Camille produced a 24 foot (7.3 m) storm surge. Along Mississippi's entire shore and for some three to four blocks inland, the destruction was nearly complete. The worst-hit areas were Clermont Harbor, Lakeshore, Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach, and the beachfront of Gulfport, Mississippi City, and Biloxi.
1906 Mississippi hurricane; 1909 Grand Isle hurricane; 1916 Gulf Coast hurricane; 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane; 1960 Texas tropical storm; 1987 Gulf Coast tropical ...
Hurricane Katrina's winds and storm surge reached the Mississippi coastline on the morning of August 29, 2005, [2] [3] beginning a two-day path of destruction through central Mississippi; by 10 a.m. CDT on August 29, 2005, the eye of Katrina began traveling up the entire state, only slowing from hurricane-force winds at Meridian near 7 p.m. and ...
Here are the top five states most often hit by hurricanes. The list does not include 2024's stats which will be tallied when the season ends. ... Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia coastlines ...
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 ...
Jackson was carried away by floodwaters that destroyed her home in Biloxi, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina smashed into the Gulf Coast in 2005, CBS News reports. She was 46 years old when she ...
September 25, 1998 – Hurricane Georges passes over Key West as a Category 2 hurricane, and days later it moves eastward through the Florida Panhandle after hitting Biloxi, Mississippi. In the Florida Keys, the hurricane produced 8.41 inches (214 mm) of rain in Tavernier and wind gusts peaking at 110 mph (175 km/h) in Marathon.