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Hurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone which became the second most intense on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of the four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S.
Hurricane Camille, hurricane (tropical cyclone), one of the strongest of the 20th century, that hit the United States in August 1969. After entering the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane struck the Mississippi River basin.
Late in the evening on August 17 in 1969, Hurricane Camille made landfall along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Waveland, MS. Camille is one of only FOUR Category 5 hurricanes ever to make landfall in the continental United States (Atlantic Basin) - the others being the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which impacted the Florida Keys; Hurricane Andrew ...
Hurricane Camille, a Category 5 storm, made landfall in Mississippi with 175 mph winds, 24 feet of storm surge. One of the worst hurricanes to ever hit the U.S. slammed into the Gulf Coast 53 years ago.
Hurricane Camille made landfall 50 years ago this weekend as the second most intense hurricane to strike the continental U.S. on record. Only the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was stronger....
Hurricane Camille arrived in Virginia on the night of August 19, 1969, as a tropical depression following landfall in Mississippi as one of only three category five storms ever to make landfall in the United States since record-keeping began.
On August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast, only one of four hurricanes to make landfall on the continental United States as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.