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Hurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane which became the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of just four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S.
Camille roared ashore on the night of Aug. 17, 1969, near Waveland, Mississippi, as a Category 5 hurricane. There are only three other Category 5 landfalls on record in the continental U.S.,...
Hurricane Camille started as a tropical storm on Aug. 14, 1969, west of the Cayman Islands and rapidly gained strength as it moved toward Cuba. On August 16 the storm was a category 5 hurricane, the highest classification on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On the night of August 17-18, 1969, South Mississippi took a direct hit from one of the most intense hurricanes on record to ever strike the United States. Hurricane...
Late in the evening on August 17 in 1969, Hurricane Camille made landfall along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Waveland, MS. Camille is one of only FOUR Category 5 hurricanes ever to make landfall in the continental United States (Atlantic Basin) - the others being the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which impacted the Florida Keys; Hurricane Andrew ...
Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast fifty years ago. Forming as a tropical depression on August 14, 1969, south of Cuba, the system intensified into a category 5 hurricane...
On the late night of Sunday, August 17, 1969, powerful Category 5 Hurricane Camille approached the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It would make landfall at peak intensity of 173 mph (150 knots) and a minimal central pressure of 900 millibars (26.58 inches mercury) around 11 pm CDT at Waveland, Mississippi.
Hurricane Camille as seen on Sunday, August 17, 1969, about eight hours before making landfall on the Mississippi coast. At the time, Camille was a peak-strength Category 5 storm with 175 mph...
Camille was the second-most-intense hurricane to hit the U.S. and remains one of only four Category 5 hurricanes to strike the mainland. The storm resulted in at least 259 fatalities and...
Hurricane Camille 1969. This powerful, deadly, and destructive hurricane formed just west of the Cayman Islands on August 14. It rapidly intensified and by the time it reached western Cuba the next day it was a Category 3 hurricane.