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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.
Late in the evening on August 17 in 1969, Hurricane Camille made landfall along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Waveland, MS. Camille is one of only FOUR Category 5 hurricanes ever to make landfall in the continental United States (Atlantic Basin) - the others being the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which impacted the Florida Keys; Hurricane Andrew ...
Hurricane Camille started as a tropical storm on Aug. 14, 1969, west of the Cayman Islands and rapidly gained strength as it moved toward Cuba. On August 16 the storm was a category 5 hurricane, the highest classification on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.
Camille roared ashore on the night of Aug. 17, 1969, near Waveland, Mississippi, as a Category 5 hurricane. There are only three other Category 5 landfalls on record in the continental...
Hurricane Camille arrived in Virginia on the night of August 19, 1969, as a tropical depression following landfall in Mississippi as one of only three category five storms ever to make landfall in the United States since record-keeping began.
On August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast, only one of four hurricanes to make landfall on the continental United States as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
Riding waves 22 feet high, throwing rain hard as bullets on its 210 m.p.h. winds, Camille hurled herself at the Louisiana and Mississippi shoreline, uprooting, ravaging, killing in her awesome...
Just after midnight, Camille had strengthened to a strong category three hurricane, and by daybreak, a strong category four hurricane. Camille continued to strengthen to a category five hurricane by early afternoon, and reached the first peak intensity of 175 mph (150 knots) with a minimum central pressure of 905 millibars (26.72 inches) by 7 ...
50th Anniversary of Hurricane Camille. On the night of August 17-18th, 1969, Hurricane Camille came howling into Waveland, MS, with estimated sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/hr) and a storm surge of 24 feet (7.3 m) to become the second strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the United States (after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935).
Hurricane Camille 1969. This powerful, deadly, and destructive hurricane formed just west of the Cayman Islands on August 14. It rapidly intensified and by the time it reached western Cuba the next day it was a Category 3 hurricane.