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Camille was a small hurricane as it crossed western Cuba, and its winds decreased slightly to 105 mph (169 km/h) over land before it emerged into the Gulf of Mexico. [6] This New Orleans WSR-57 radar image of Hurricane Camille was taken less than 50 miles from its center on August 17 1969 at 10 p.m. CST
The hurricane flattened nearly everything along the coast of the U.S. state of Mississippi, and caused additional flooding and deaths inland while crossing the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. In total, Camille killed 259 people and caused $1.42 billion (1969 USD, $9.14 billion 2005 USD) in damages.
Track Map of Hurricane Audrey, Saffir–Simpson Scale, 1957. Hurricane Audrey. Year: 1957. ... Severe Pavement Damage of Eastbound Lanes of U.S. Highway 90 From Hurricane Camille, 1969.
Radar image of Hurricane Camille on August 17. The 1969 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1. [1] Of the twenty-three tropical cyclones that developed in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1969, eighteen of them intensified into tropical storms; [2] this was above the 1950–2000 average of 9.6 named storms. [3]
The most intense storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, Camille slammed into Mississippi just before midnight on Aug. 17. The hurricane produced a peak storm surge of 24 feet and flattened ...
When you mention hurricanes, the first thing that comes to many Mississippians' minds is Hurricane Katrina which struck in 2005, but on August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille made landfall and for the ...
August 18, 1969: Hurricane Camille made landfall near Bay St. Louis as a Category 5 with sustained winds estimated at 175 mph and a central pressure of 900 mb. [4] This made Camille the strongest hurricane to strike the state, and the second strongest to make landfall in the continental United States, behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. [18]
In 1969, Hurricane Camille dropped 27 inches of rain on Nelson County, Va., in just six hours. The storm hit the Blue Ridge Mountains with an intensity that no meteorologist had anticipated, and ...