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Hurricane Carla was the most intense tropical cyclone landfall in Texas in the 20th century. [1] The third named storm of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Carla developed from an area of squally weather in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on September 3. [1] As a tropical depression, it strengthened while heading northwest.
Hurricane Carla, which formed during the 1961 Atlantic hurricane seas. ... Rather was the news director at a small TV station in Houston, KHOU Channel 11. In a 2012 interview with Mediabistro ...
Several homes in the path of the tornado in Galveston were leveled to the ground, but hurricane-force winds may have weakened the structures beforehand. 200 people were injured. This tornado was the first of only two violent F4 tornadoes ever spawned by a tropical cyclone with the other coming from Hurricane Hilda in 1964. [2] [8] [19] F3
September 11, 1961 – Hurricane Carla made landfall near Port Lavaca as a Category 4 hurricane. With an estimated central pressure of 931 mb at landfall, Carla was one of the largest and most intense hurricanes to strike the United States, and the strongest ever to hit Texas. Gusts as high as 170 mph (270 km/h) were estimated at Port Lavaca.
Hurricane Carla (1961, Category 4): 46, named the largest hurricane of record in Texas Velasco Hurricane (1909, Category 3) : 41 Freeport Hurricane (1932, Category 4): 40
A National Weather Service technician monitors Hurricane Carla on a WSR-57 radar on Sept. 10, 1961. (NOAA) For more than 60 years, Hurricane Carla has been the benchmark for landfalling hurricanes ...
WSR-57 radar image of Hurricane Carla out of Galveston, Texas on September 10. The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 15. [1] It was an above average season in which twelve tropical storms formed; this was above the 1950–2000 average of 9.6 named storms. [2]
September 21, 1961 0 Hurricane Carla tornado outbreak — Shortly after a comparable F4 tornado killed 8, an F3 tornado damaged commercial buildings in Galveston. [28] F5 Topeka, Kansas: June 8, 1966 17 See section on this tornado [29] F5 Lubbock, Texas: May 11, 1970 28 See article on this tornado [1] [30] F3 Columbus, Ohio: May 10, 1973 0 F2