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Hurricane Opal was a large and powerful tropical cyclone that caused severe and extensive damage along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States in October 1995. The fifteenth named storm, ninth hurricane and strongest tropical cyclone of the unusually active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, Opal developed from the interaction of a tropical wave and a low-pressure area near the Yucatán ...
October 4–5, 1995: Hurricane Opal brought rainfall to Mississippi while moving through Florida and Alabama, peaking at 5.9 inches at Vancleave. [13] September 28, 1998: Hurricane Georges made landfall near Biloxi as a Category 2. [4] Georges brought high winds, storm surge, and heavy rainfall to southern Mississippi while looping over the state.
00:00 UTC (7:00 p.m. CDT, October 3) – Hurricane Opal strengthens into a Category 3 hurricane. [28] 10:00 UTC (5:00 a.m. CDT) – Hurricane Opal strengthens into a Category 4 hurricane about 165 miles (266 km) south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, and simultaneously attains its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph ...
On Oct. 4, 1995, Hurricane Opal brought 70 mph winds and knocked down 300-plus trees throughout Columbus and Fort Moore, according to the Ledger’s archive. Hurricane Irma in 2017 and Michael in ...
Opal is known for its storm surge. Dauphin Island recorded 7 feet of it. Worst of all was the rain. Brewton got 19.42 inches of rain from Opal. [2] [1] July 19–22, 1997: Hurricane Danny made the first hurricane-force landfall in Alabama since 1979, as a Category 1 hurricane. It weakened into a tropical storm and moved over Florida.
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
The hurricane comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida’s Big Bend, killing more than 220 and causing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage across the ...
After becoming a hurricane on October 2, the cyclone rapidly intensified and began moving north across the Gulf of Mexico. At 10:00 UTC on October 4, Opal peaked as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 916 mbar (27.0 inHg). Shortly thereafter, the storm began weakening.