Famous Hurricanes

1. THE GREAT GALVESTON TEXAS HURRICANE DISASTER

• September 8-9, 1900
• Galveston, Texas
• 8,000 deaths (ranges up to 10,000 - 12,000)
• category 4 at landfall
• pressure 27.64" (936 mb) at landfall
• damage $150 million
• deadliest U.S. weather disaster on record

2. THE GULF/SOUTH TEXAS HURRICANE OF 1919

• September 14, 1919
• Just south of Corpus Christi, Texas
• category 3 at landfall
• Glanced Florida keys on September 9th as category 4
• pressure 27.37" (927 mb) near Key West, Florida
• pressure 28.05" (950 mb) at landfall
• 600-900 deaths, many missing
• damage $22 million

3. THE GREAT MIAMI HURRICANE

• September 18, 1926
• Miami, Florida
• category 4 at landfall
• Second, weaker landfall September 20th near Pensacola, Florida
• pressure 27.46" (930 mb) at landfall
• damage $105 million
• 373+ deaths and 6,381 injuries

4. THE LAKE OKEECHOBEE FLORIDA CATASTROPHE

• September 16, 1928
• landfall near Palm Beach, Florida
• Category 4 at landfall
• Category 5 landfall in Puerto Rico on September 13th
• Hurricane force winds produced 6-9 storm surge on lake Okeechobee!
• pressure 27.43" (929 mb) at landfall
• 2500+ deaths
• damage $32 million

5. THE GREAT FLORIDA KEYS LABOR DAY STORM

• September 3, 1935
• Florida Keys
• category 5 at landfall, first time in recorded U.S. history
• pressure 26.35" (892 mb) at landfall
• damage $6 million
• 423 deaths
• most intense hurricane to strike the U.S. on record
• third lowest observed pressure of any recorded Atlantic hurricane

6. THE GREAT LONG ISLAND / NEW ENGLAND HURRICANE

• September 21, 1938
• Long Island New York/New England
• 600 deaths
• category 3 at landfall
• pressure 27.94" (946 mb) at landfall
• damage $308 million

7. HURRICANE "CAROL"

• August 31, 1954
• Long Island New York/New England states
• 60 deaths
• category 3 at landfall
• pressure 28.35" (960 mb) at landfall
• damage $461 million

8. HURRICANE "EDNA"

• September 11, 1954
• Extreme eastern New England
• deaths ?
• category 3 at landfall
• pressure 28.17" (954 mb) at landfall
• damage ?

9. HURRICANE "HAZEL"

• October 15, 1954
• South Carolina/North Carolina north to Pennsylvania
• 95 deaths
• category 4 at landfall
• pressure 27.70" (938 mb) at landfall
• damage $281 million
• record three major hurricanes in a row to strike the U.S. in less than two months

10. HURRICANE "DIANE"

• August 17, 1955
• North Carolina/northeast U.S.
• 184 deaths
• category 2 at landfall
• pressure 28.02" (949 mb) at landfall
• damage $831 million
• most deaths were due to devastating floods in the northeast U.S.

11. HURRICANE "AUDREY"

• June 27, 1957
• southwest Louisiana
• 400-500 deaths
• category 4 at landfall
• pressure 27.91" (945 mb) at landfall
• damage $150 million
• deadliest hurricane in June on record in the U.S.

12. HURRICANE "DONNA"

• September 10, 1960
• Florida
• 50 deaths
• category 4 at landfall
• pressure 27.46" (930 mb) at landfall
• damage $387 million

13. HURRICANE "CARLA"

• September 11, 1961
• Texas (remnants tracked to near Chicago)
• 46 deaths
• category 4 at landfall
• pressure 27.49" (931 mb) at landfall
• damage $408 million
• dumped about 4 inches of rain at Milwaukee September 12-13

14. HURRICANE "BETSY"

• September 8-9, 1965
• southeast Florida/southeast Louisiana
• 75 deaths
• category 3 at landfall
• pressure 27.99" (948 mb) at landfall
• damage $1.4 billion
• first hurricane to inflict billion dollar damage

15. HURRICANE "BEULAH"

• September 20, 1967
• South Texas
• 15 deaths
• category 3 at landfall
• pressure 28.05" (950 mb) at landfall
• damage $350 million
• produced record 118 tornadoes by a hurricane across South Texas (most were weak)

16. HURRICANE "CAMILLE"

• August 17-19, 1969
• Mississippi/southeast Louisiana northeast to Virginia
• 256 deaths
• category 5 at landfall
• pressure 26.84" (909 mb) at landfall
• damage $1.4 billion
• remnants dumped 27 inches of rain in less than 24 hours in Virginia
• the second most intense hurricane on record at landfall
• only the second hurricane to reach category 5 at landfall in the U.S.
• nearly half the deaths were due to catastrophic flooding in the Appalachians

17. HURRICANE "AGNES"

• June 19-22, 1972
• Florida panhandle/northeast U.S.
• 122 deaths
• category 1 at landfall
• pressure 28.86" (977 mb) at landfall
• damage $2.1 billion
• most deaths were due to catastrophic flooding in New York / Pennsylvania

18. HURRICANE "HUGO"

• September 21, 1989
• South Carolina
• 21 deaths
• category 4 at landfall
• pressure 27.58" (934 mb) at landfall
• damage $7 billion
• the third costliest hurricane on record in the U.S.

19. HURRICANE "ANDREW"

• August 24-26, 1992
• southeast Florida/southern Louisiana
• 23 deaths
• category 5 at landfall
• pressure 27.23" (922 mb) at landfall
• damage $26.5 billion
• the costliest hurricane on record in the U.S.
• the third most intense hurricane at landfall to hit the U.S.

20. HURRICANE "FRAN"

• September 5-6, 1996
• North Carolina / Virginia north to Pennsylvania
• 27 deaths
• category 3 at landfall
• pressure 28.32" (954 mb) at landfall
• damage $3.2 billion
• the fourth costliest hurricane on record in the U.S.

21. HURRICANE "FLOYD"

• September 16, 1999
• landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as category 2 hurricane
• 56 deaths, most due to flooding
• pressure 28.17" (959 mb) at landfall
• damage $3-6 billion mainly from flooding

22. HURRICANE "ISABEL"

• September 18, 2003
• landfall near Cedar Island, North Carolina as category 2 hurricane
• pressure 28.45" (963 mb) at landfall
• 17 deaths
• damage $3+ billion

23. HURRICANE "CHARLEY"

• August 13, 2004
• Entire west coast of Florida
• 24 deaths
• 792 injuries
• category 4 at landfall
• pressure 27.79" (941 mb) at landfall
• damage $11.2 billion
• the second costliest hurricane on record in the U.S.

24. HURRICANE "FRANCES"

• September 5-6, 2004
• landfall near Stuart, Florida as a category 2 hurricane
• Secondary landfall as tropical storm near Apalachicola
• 7 deaths
• pressure 28.35" (960 mb) at landfall
• damage $8.9 billion

25. HURRICANE "IVAN"

• September 13-16, 2004
• Western Panhandle of Florida and Alabama Gulf Coast
• 14 deaths
• 16 injuries
• category 3 at landfall
• pressure 27.85" (943 mb) at landfall
• damage $4.5 billion
• One of the most damaging hurricanes to affect the extreme western Florida Panhandle in modern history.

26. HURRICANE "JEANNE"

• September 26, 2004
• landfall near Stuart, Florida
• category 3 at landfall
• pressure 28.11" (952 mb) at landfall
• damage $6.9 billion
• 5 deaths
• landfall was same location as hurricane Frances just a few weeks earlier, first and only in recorded history

27. HURRICANE "DENNIS"

• July 10, 2005
• landfall near Navarre Beach, Florida as a category 3 hurricane
• pressure 27.94" (946 mb) at landfall
• damage $2.23 billion
• 3 deaths

28. HURRICANE "KATRINA"

• August 29, 2005
• 2nd landfall near Buras, Louisiana as a category 3 hurricane
• 1st landfall was near Miami, Florida as a category 1 hurricane.
• pressure 27.17" (920 mb) at Louisiana landfall
• damage $100+ billion
• 1500+ fatalities
• The worst natural disaster in U.S. history from combination of significant loss of property and human life

29. HURRICANE "RITA"

• September 24, 2005
• landfall near Johnson’s Bayou, Louisiana
• category 3 at landfall
• pressure 27.67" (937 mb) at landfall
• 4th lowest pressure observed in an Atlantic hurricane (895 mb)
• damage about $10 billion
• Prompted one of the largest evacuation events in preparation for landfall
• 7 deaths

30. HURRICANE "WILMA"

• October 24, 2005
• landfall near Naples, Florida
• category 3 at landfall
• pressure 28.23" (956 mb) at landfall
• Lowest Atlantic hurricane pressure ever recorded (882 mb over Caribbean)
• damage $20.6 billion, 3rd costliest in U.S. history (behind Katrina and Andrew)
• 6 deaths

31. HURRICANE "IKE"

• September 12-13, 2008
• landfall near Galveston, Texas
• category 2 at landfall
• pressure 28.99" (982 mb) at landfall
• damage $6.9 billion
• 20 deaths
• continued to produce significant wind damage and flooding in the following days up into the Ohio Valley