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The 1969 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season since the 1933 season, ... Damage in Florida reached almost $3.78 million, including ...
June 9, 1969– A tropical depression dissipates shortly after passing through the Florida Keys. Its effects are unknown. [37] August 18, 1969– Hurricane Camille strikes southern Mississippi as a Category 5 hurricane, with its large wind field producing a 71 mph (114 km/h) wind gust and 3.55 inches (90 mm) of rain in Pensacola. [38]
The most intense storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, Camille originated as a tropical depression on August 14, south of Cuba, from a long-tracked tropical wave. Located in a favorable environment for strengthening, the storm quickly intensified into a Category 2 hurricane before striking the western part of Cuba on August 15.
Hurricane Camille. Year: 1969. Death Toll: 259. Financial Impact: $1.4 billion (1969 dollars), ... Florida, and Louisiana, and remains the most destructive hurricane to hit Florida. It is one of ...
The 1969 season was the year with the most tropical cyclones affecting the state, ... Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871–2001 (2nd ed.).
Hurricane Camille in 1969. ... Hurricane Andrew pummeled southern Florida as a monster Category 5 storm with sustained wind speeds as high as 165 mph and gusts as high as 174 mph.
A s Hurricane Milton hurtles toward Florida, parts of four states—Georgia, ... In 1969, Hurricane Camille dropped 27 inches of rain on Nelson County, Va., in just six hours.
Michael was the second-most intense hurricane to have made landfall during the month of October in the North Atlantic basin (including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea), behind the 1924 Cuba hurricane. [154] Michael was the first recorded Category 4 or 5 hurricane to strike the Florida Panhandle since reliable records began in 1851.