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Hurricane Inez was a powerful Category 5 major hurricane [nb 1] that affected the Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, and Mexico, killing over 1,000 people in 1966. It was the first storm on record to affect all of those areas.
Inez then struck southwestern Haiti, [6] where it was considered the worst hurricane since the 1920s. [26] Inez weakened quickly over Hispaniola, although it reintensified into a major hurricane before striking southeastern Cuba on September 30. The hurricane moved slowly over Cuba for two days before emerging into the Atlantic Ocean near the ...
July 24, 1966– The precursor tropical low to a tropical depression crosses the northern portion of the state; its effects are minimal. [33] October 4, 1966– Hurricane Inez passes through the Florida Keys, resulting in 3 deaths and $5 million in damage (1966 USD, $33 million 2008 USD). [33]
[2] [27] At the 1969 Hurricane Warning Conference, the National Hurricane Center requested that Carol, Edna, Hazel, and Inez be permanently retired due to their importance to the research community. [2] [28] This request was subsequently accepted and led to today's practice of retiring names of significant tropical cyclones permanently.
The name Inez has been used for one tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean and one tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific Ocean. The name Inez was retired in the Atlantic after 1966. Atlantic: Hurricane Inez (1966) – the worst storm of the season. struck Lesser Antilles, Haiti, Cuba, Bahamas, Florida Keys, Yucatán and Mexico. Western Pacific:
Hurricane strength have been ranked using the Saffir-Simpson scale since 1972, ... Inez: Category 3 hurricane. October 10. 1966 Beulah: Category 3 hurricane ...
A Category 5 Atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator. They are among the strongest tropical cyclones that can form on Earth, having 1-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 137 knots (254 km/h ; 158 mph ; 70 m ...
September 29, 1966 – Hurricane Inez makes landfall in the Barahona Province of the Dominican Republic with winds of 140 (225 km/h) miles per hour before briefly moving off Haiti and the Dominican Republic and then striking Haiti near Jacmel, being considered to be the worst hurricane to strike Haiti since the 1920s. In the Barahona Province ...