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Hurricane Opal was a large and powerful tropical cyclone that caused severe and extensive damage along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States in October 1995. The fifteenth named storm, ninth hurricane and strongest tropical cyclone of the unusually active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, Opal developed from the interaction of a tropical wave and a low-pressure area near the Yucatán ...
00:00 UTC (7:00 p.m. CDT, October 3) – Hurricane Opal strengthens into a Category 3 hurricane. [28] 10:00 UTC (5:00 a.m. CDT) – Hurricane Opal strengthens into a Category 4 hurricane about 165 miles (266 km) south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, and simultaneously attains its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph ...
Opal is known for its storm surge. Dauphin Island recorded 7 feet of it. Worst of all was the rain. Brewton got 19.42 inches of rain from Opal. [2] [1] July 19–22, 1997: Hurricane Danny made the first hurricane-force landfall in Alabama since 1979, as a Category 1 hurricane. It weakened into a tropical storm and moved over Florida.
On Oct. 4, 1995, Hurricane Opal brought 70 mph winds and knocked down 300-plus trees throughout Columbus and Fort Moore, according to the Ledger’s archive. Hurricane Irma in 2017 and Michael in ...
This map shows the tracks of all tropical cyclones which formed worldwide from 1985 to 2005. The map was created with the WPTC track map generator by Nilfanion.. The track map generator program generates a track map from the NHC HURDAT data, [A 1] or from Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast (ATCF) B-deck data files (commonly referred to as "best track" files).
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
National Hurricane Center’s map charts the expected path of Milton over the coming days into the weekend (NHC) Milton is expected to make landfall on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning as its ...
After becoming a hurricane on October 2, the cyclone rapidly intensified and began moving north across the Gulf of Mexico. At 10:00 UTC on October 4, Opal peaked as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 916 mbar (27.0 inHg). Shortly thereafter, the storm began weakening.