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Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest, second-costliest, and most intense hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed at least 469 people in Haiti before it struck the United States near the border between North and South Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane .
The hurricane season officially began on June 15, when the United States Weather Bureau in Miami, Florida, began 24‑hour operations. The agency, under the direction of Grady Norton had access to 43 other weather stations across the Atlantic basin. [2] Norton died during the season from a stroke while tracking Hurricane Hazel. [3]
Track Map of Hurricane Hazel, Saffir–Simpson Scale, 1954. Hurricane Hazel. Year: 1954. Death Toll: 95 (in the U.S.) Financial Impact: $382 million (1954 dollars), equivalent to ~$3.8 billion today.
Hurricane Betsy was the first hurricane to have damages exceeding US$1 billion. In 1960, four rotating lists of names were developed to avoid creating new lists each year, while the practice of retiring any particularly damaging storm names for 10 years continued, with 11 names deemed significant enough to be retired during the decade.
As Hurricane Florence looms off the eastern coast of the U.S., it is drawing comparisons to 1954’s Hurricane Hazel, one of the deadliest and costliest storms to hit the southeastern U.S. that ...
The effects of Hurricane Hazel in Canada included 81 deaths and C$137,552,400 ($1,581,876,233.63 in 2023) in damages. Hazel, the deadliest and costliest storm of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season, reached Toronto, Ontario by the evening of October 15, 1954. It peaked as a category 4 storm, but by the time it had reached Canada, it was an ...
Here's a list of the retired names according to the National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center. 1954: Carol and Hazel 1955: Connie, Diane, Ione and Janet
Considered the most destructive hurricane to affect the state at the time, the hurricane causes an estimated damage total of $136 million (1954 USD, $1.09 billion 2008 USD). Hurricane Hazel injures 200 and kills 19 people in the state. [9] August 12, 1955 – Hurricane Connie strikes the Outer Banks and produces severe beach erosion. [10]