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Hurricane Katrina making landfall in Mississippi. A Mississippi hurricane is a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that affected the U.S. state of Mississippi. From 1851 to the present, 108 tropical cyclones have passed through Mississippi. The costliest and deadliest hurricane in this period was Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
This hurricane, making landfall Aug. 8, was one of the most devastating in Puerto Rican history, bringing 28 straight days of rain and winds as high as 100 mph.
By the end of this Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds, 10,000 of them had lost their homes in the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. cestes001/istockphoto Hurricane Maria
The storm surge also devastated the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama, making Katrina one of the most destructive hurricanes, the costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States (tied with Hurricane Harvey in 2017), [43] and the deadliest hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The total damage from Katrina is estimated at ...
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 ...
Upon making landfall, Camille produced a 24 foot (7.3 m) storm surge. Along Mississippi's entire shore and for some three to four blocks inland, the destruction was nearly complete. The worst-hit areas were Clermont Harbor, Lakeshore, Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach, and the beachfront of Gulfport, Mississippi City, and Biloxi.