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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.
The Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve are distinct from those of the Department of Commerce's NOAA Hurricane Hunters, based at Lakeland Linder International Airport, Florida, [4] who use a pair of Lockheed WP-3D Orion and a Gulfstream IV-SP aircraft to also fly weather reconnaissance, data collection and scientific research missions.
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:
The hurricane produced a peak storm surge of 24 feet and flattened nearly everything along the Mississippi coast. It caused an estimated $1.42 billion in damages (more than $12 billion in 2024 ...
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Four tropical cyclones developed in September, including tropical storms Greta, Hallie and Judith, as well as Hurricane Inez. Peaking as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale with winds of 165 mph (270 km/h), Inez was the strongest tropical cyclone of the season. Although Inez persisted into October, no other ...
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A second candidate, Hurricane Elena, stayed too far out to sea. [15] After Betsy, two other hurricanes came close to being seeded. Hurricane Faith was considered a likely candidate, but it stayed out of range of the seeding planes. [15] That same year, recon flights were conducted into Hurricane Inez, but there were no seedings. [15]