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Hurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone which became the second most intense on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of the four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S.
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 ...
Relive the track of one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes, which produced an almighty punch as it made landfall on the US Gulf Coast in August 1969.YouTub...
Camille attained hurricane strength early on August 15th, now heading north-northwest towards the western tip of Cuba. Camille continue to strengthen and eventually crossed the western tip of Cuba by 6 PM EDT as a category two hurricane and entered the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico two hours later.
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.
Weather Underground provides tracking maps, 5-day forecasts, computer models, satellite imagery and detailed storm statistics for tracking and forecasting Major Hurricane Camille Tracker.
This digital map produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tracks the route of Hurricane Camille from the day before its landfall in Mississippi on August 17, 1969, until it swept across the eastern United States and headed out to the Atlantic Ocean on August 21, 1969.
Its track below was supplied by the National Hurricane Center. The graphics below show the storm total rainfall for Camille. Data was provided by the National Climatic Data. Center in Asheville, North Carolina, the U.S. Geologic Survey, and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.
Earls Friday morning, 15 August, Camille developed into a small but potent hurricane pursuing a northwesterly track at about 9 m.p.h. Havana's weather radar located Camille about 60 miles south-southeast of Pinar del Rio. As Camille moved toward western Cuba on Friday afternoon, her winds had already reached 115 m.p.h. with gales extend-
ON HURRICANE CAMILLE AUGUST 14-22, one Of the most intense Storms North history, the Mississippi Coast with windg up to an hour tideg 30 feet, and then a 21 inches Of rain over Virginia'S Blue resulting flooding landslides in southwestern Virginia. The death toll presently at 139 in Mississippi and Southeastem With 76 persons Still missing.