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Walaka became a Category 3 major hurricane around 12:00 UTC on October 1, the fourth storm to do so in the Central Pacific in 2018. [1] At that time, the hurricane possessed a prominent eye surrounded by a sizeable ring of cold clouds. Walaka turned towards the west-northwest as it moved around the southwestern edge of the ridge. [10]
August 26, 1852: The Great Mobile hurricane made landfall in Pascagoula, Mississippi as a Category 3 hurricane. A wharf in the city was destroyed, killing at least 4 people. Several ships were washed ashore or blown out to sea with loss of life. Strong winds caused "considerable" destruction in Mississippi City and Biloxi. [3] [4]
Walaka peaked as a Category 5 hurricane at 00:00 UTC on October 2 with winds of 160 miles per hour (260 km/h) and a pressure of 921 mbar (27.20 inHg). This intensity made Walaka the fourth major hurricane in the Central Pacific and second Category 5 hurricane of the season. [29] After peaking, Walaka began to undergo an eyewall replacement cycle.
Hurricanes Walaka and Sergio, Tropical Depression Rosa, Tropical Storm Leslie and Typhoon Kong-rey on October 2, 2018 Taken by various of satellites throughout 2018, these are the 31 tropical cyclones that reached at least Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale during that year, from Berguitta in January to Cilida in December (though Hola and Sergio are out of order).
The disturbance known as Invest 90E could become the first tropical depression of the 2018 Eastern Pacific hurricane season.
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Hurricane Walaka was a Category 5 hurricane that brought high surf and a powerful storm surge to the Hawaiian Islands. The tropical cyclone was the nineteenth named storm , twelfth hurricane , eighth major hurricane , and second Category 5 hurricane of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season .
Gene Taylor, then a U.S. Representative in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, speaks at a Hurricane Katrina observance in Biloxi on Aug. 29, 2010. Taylor, a U.S. Congressman at the time and former city ...