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It was the fourth tropical cyclone, third hurricane, the only major hurricane of the 1928 Atlantic hurricane season, and remains the deadliest disaster in Florida’s history to date. [1] It developed off the west coast of Africa on September 6 as a tropical depression, but it strengthened into a tropical storm later that day, shortly before ...
A 1945 report published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch estimated that approximately 5,000 migrant farm workers resided in this region at the time of the 1928 hurricane, many of whom lodged in shacks and tents. [9] A mud dike averaging only 4 ft (1.2 m) in height surrounded Lake Okeechobee prior to the 1928 hurricane. [10]
San Felipe-Okeechobee Hurricane. Year: 1928. ... Florida, but the worst damage was at Lake Okeechobee, where winds of 162 mph caused storm surges up to 9 feet. ... Hurricane Irma. Year: 2017 ...
It was the first time that the shoulder-use plan, which was introduced at the start of the 2017 hurricane season, was implemented by the state for hurricane evacuations. [43] The shoulder-use plan was implemented in place of labor- and resource-intensive contraflow lane reversal , in which both sides of an interstate highway are used for one ...
Florida’s 1928 Okeechobee hurricane is the state’s deadliest so far, second in the nation only to the 1900 Galveston storm. The 1928 hurricane’s official death toll was 1,836, but local ...
The 1928 Atlantic hurricane season featured the Okeechobee hurricane, which was second deadliest tropical cyclone in the history of the United States. Only eight tropical cyclones developed during the season—ranking as a below-average year. Of these eight tropical systems, seven of them intensified into a tropical storm and four further ...
It caused $30 billion in damage and more than 40 deaths. It was the costliest natural disaster in the history of the U.S. at the time. When the 1992 hurricane season ended, the name Andrew was ...
August 14, 1928 – A tropical storm strikes near Apalachicola after crossing the Florida Keys, causing minor damage. [33] September 17, 1928 – The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane makes landfall between Jupiter and Boca Raton as the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane, producing a storm surge of 10 feet and waves of up to 20 feet which causes ...