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11–12 October: Hurricane Hazel affected every part of Haiti. At more than 249 km/h, the hurricane devastated the country, killing several thousand people. 1963. 3 October: Hurricane Flora struck the Sud and Ouest départements, causing over 5,000 deaths. 14 November: flooding of the Grande Rivière du Nord killed almost 500 people. 1964
Striking the Tiburon Peninsula as a Category 4 hurricane on the morning of October 4, Matthew was the strongest storm to directly impact Haiti since Hurricane Cleo in 1964. An anemometer at Antoine-Simon Airport in Les Cayes , east of where Matthew made landfall, measured a gust of 107 mph (172 km/h) before the station went offline.
Hurricane Matthew struck southwestern Haiti near Les Anglais on October 4, 2016, leaving widespread damage in the impoverished nation. Matthew was a late-season Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale, having formed in the southeastern Caribbean on September 28.
The number of deaths in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, jumped to at least 877 on Friday. Hurricane Matthew kills almost 900 in Haiti before striking US Skip to main content
In Haiti, which was still recovering from both the 2010 earthquake and the 2010s cholera outbreak, a total of 75 people died, [175] and approximately 200,000 were left homeless as a result of four days of ongoing rain from Hurricane Sandy. [176]
On this day in 2004, Hurricane Jeanne crashed into Haiti. The deadliest storm of the devastating 2004 season, Hurricane Jeanne is responsible for over 3,035 deaths.
Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin and the ... flooding and landslides caused 12 deaths in Haiti and 1 death and about $93.5 ...
Over the following five days, the hurricane tracked through the Greater Antilles, causing over 600 fatalities, mainly in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. By September 25, Georges entered the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane. The storm made landfall three days later near Biloxi, Mississippi with winds of 105 mph (169 km/h). Upon ...