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The 1954 Atlantic hurricane season was an above-average Atlantic hurricane season in terms of named storms, with 16 forming. Overall, the season resulted in $751.6 million in damage, [nb 1] the most of any season at the time.
The 1954 and 1967 seasons were the only years during the time period in which a storm did not affect the state. The strongest hurricane to hit the state during the time period was Donna in 1960, which was the 8th strongest hurricane on record to strike the United States. [1]
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 .
Hurricane Hazel. Year: 1954. Death Toll: 95 (in the U.S.) Financial Impact: $382 million (1954 dollars), equivalent to ~$3.8 billion today. This Category 4 storm killed at least 469 people in ...
September 10, 1954: Hurricane Edna tracks to the east of Long Island producing 9 inches (230 mm) of rain. [3] Prior to the storm, New York City orders an emergency standby for the majority of its hospitals, and subways. [33] October 15, 1954: Hurricane Hazel—wind gust of 113 mph at Battery Park, highest ever recorded in New York City.
Usually at this time of year the Atlantic hurricane season is long over. But on Dec. 31, 1954, 70 years ago today, a storm named "Alice" first became a hurricane several hundred miles northeast of ...
The decade featured Hurricane Andrew, which at the time was the costliest hurricane on record, and also Hurricane Mitch, which is considered to be the deadliest tropical cyclone to have its name retired, killing over 11,000 people in Central America. A total of 15 names were retired in this decade, seven during the 1995 and 1996 seasons.
The twelfth tropical cyclone and the eighth hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season, Alice developed on December 30, 1954, from a trough of low pressure in the central Atlantic Ocean in an area of unusually favorable conditions. The storm moved southwestward and gradually strengthened to reach hurricane status.