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Hurricane Carla was the most intense tropical cyclone landfall in Texas in the 20th century. [1] The third named storm of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Carla developed from an area of squally weather in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on September 3. [1] As a tropical depression, it strengthened while heading northwest.
Several homes in the path of the tornado in Galveston were leveled to the ground, but hurricane-force winds may have weakened the structures beforehand. 200 people were injured. This tornado was the first of only two violent F4 tornadoes ever spawned by a tropical cyclone with the other coming from Hurricane Hilda in 1964. [2] [8] [19] F3
A National Weather Service technician monitors Hurricane Carla on a WSR-57 radar on Sept. 10, 1961. (NOAA) For more than 60 years, Hurricane Carla has been the benchmark for landfalling hurricanes ...
Hurricane Carla (1961), second most intense storm to ever strike the Texas coast; caused over $2 billion (2005 US dollars) in damages; The name Carla has been used for six tropical cyclones in the western north Pacific Ocean. Typhoon Carla (1962) (65W), landfall on Hainan Island; at least 13 people were killed; Typhoon Carla (1965) (10W, Gloring)
She survived countless storms, often remembering Category 4 Hurricane Carla in 1961. But the 2024 hurricane season – her 111th – proved too much. The last of 13 siblings in her family, Davis ...
Florida was bombarded by storms throughout the hurricane season, starting with Debby, which made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near the Big Bend of Florida on Aug. 5. The storm dropped an ...
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The destruction wrought by Audrey on Cameron, Louisiana, was credited as contributing to the successful evacuation of Cameron Parish in advance of Hurricane Carla four years later, with the parish having a higher evacuation rate (96%) than any other location surveyed in the aftermath of Carla despite being at the edge of the warning area ...