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  Hurricane Cleo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Early in the afternoon of the 22nd, Hurricane Cleo crossed Guadeloupe as a 115 mph Category 3.
As Cleo passed south of Haiti on the 24th, it veered northward momentarily, enough to move on to the Southwest Peninsula of Haiti.
The circulation of the hurricane was greatly disrupted by the mountainous terrain of the island, quickly weakening the hurricane.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Cleo   (532 words)

  
 Catastrophic Florida hurricanes: 1961-present - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cleo devastated the most densely populated area on the Gold coast and killed 217 people (most in the Caribbean).
Cleo was the first of three hurricanes that would strike Florida that year.
Although Jacksonville area received the fewest hurricanes during the 1900's along the Florida coast, the region was struck repeatedly during the 1800's.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catastrophic_Florida_Hurricanes:_1961-present   (1779 words)

  
 Hurricane page of the Tuna Point Lighthouse, Faro De Punta Tuna, Maunabo, Puerto Rico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hurricanes are severe tropical storms that form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
The intensity of the hurricane at this time was estimated to be at 90 mph and the storm was moving at a fast forward speed of 21 mph with an eye of 14 nm in diameter.
This hurricane in its impact is very similar to that of the 1893 hurricane.  Its center hits to the west of Maunabo and the lighthouse, this leaves the Punta Tuna to withstand what any weather person will tell you is the worst part of the storm with the highest winds and worst rains.
www.tunapointlighthouse.homestead.com /Hurricane.html   (4978 words)

  
 Hurricanes in Puerto Rico 1900-1979
Hurricane Donna is one of the infamous Atlantic hurricanes due to the path of destruction the storm left from the Caribbean trough the Bahamas, Florida and the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
Hurricane Donna weakened somewhat before passing very close to Antigua and near of over Barbuda, St. Marteen and Anguilla, by this time the hurricane was estimated to have winds of 150 mph when it hit Antigua and Barbuda weakening steadily to 130-135 mph when it passed the St. Marteen area.
Hurricane David originated from a tropical wave that emerged from the west coast of Africa becoming a tropical depression in August 25th east of the Windward Islands.
huracanado1.tripod.com /history2.html   (4276 words)

  
 Historic Hurricanes--Some Of The Most Powerful Storms On Record.
The "Hurricane" of 1903--The storm was indicated to be a hurricane by many in the media at the time, but it was in fact, a tropical storm with 70 mph winds along the coast.
Hurricane Inez--Known as "The Crazy One," Inez carved an erratic path of death and destruction from the Caribbean to Florida, and to Mexico in October, 1966.
Hurricane Grace--Contrary to what was said in the movie, The Perfect Storm, Grace was only a Category One Hurricane, but it would combine with a mid-latitude cyclone to form what would be known as the "Perfect Storm" in Meteorological terms during the final days of October, 1991.
www.hurricaneville.com /historic.html   (8089 words)

  
 Tropmet.com - Image Archives - 1965 Hurricane Betsy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana in September of 1965.
At this time, the hurricane is moving steadily northwest, east of the Bahamas...over the next six days the hurricane's motion became highly erratic, first stalling and then moving south and finally west, crossing the Northern Bahamas and then extreme Southern Florida before entering the Gulf of Mexico and making a final landfall in Louisiana.
The eye of Hurricane Betsy is clearly defined and plainly visible from a high-altitude Air Force reconnaissance aircraft at 1250 EST on September 2, 1965.
www.tropmet.com /gallery/hurricane/gal_1965_betsy.htm   (1223 words)

  
 CHC - Storms 1964
The hurricane remained small and concentrated and destructive winds were confined to a small area near the eye.
As Hurricane Cleo passed south of Haiti on August 24 it veered northward momentarily, which was enough to move onto the southwestern peninsula.
Cleo was the first hurricane to strike the greater Miami area with full force since October 17, 1950.
www.ns.ec.gc.ca /weather/hurricane/storm64.html   (1266 words)

  
 ICOR Hurricane Shutters Hurricane History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Two hurricanes in two weeks move through the Keys and extreme South Florida, winds reported as high as 122 mph at Key West in second storm.
Hurricane "Eloise" destroys or severely damages much of the beach front property between Ft. Walton Beach and Panama City.
Hurricane "Andrew" gains notoriety as the most costly natural disaster to hit a US city in modern times, causing $30 billion in damage.
www.icorintl.com /hurricane_history.html   (435 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Why and how people fly into hurricanes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
When a hurricane threatens the USA or islands around the Caribbean Sea, men and women begin flying into the storm, collecting data that helps forecasters, and also scientists.
On Aug. 23, 1964, for instance, Hurricane Cleo shook a Navy Super Constellation was so hard that the Navy scrapped the airplane after inspecting the damage.
The hurricane killed 50 people in the USA, but newspapers and magazines as well as officials credited the warnings the flights made possible with keeping the death toll much below the 600 of a similar 1938 hurricane, which hit Long Island and New England without warning.
www.usatoday.com /weather/hurricane/2003-07-16-flying-hurricanes_x.htm   (1028 words)

  
 Florida Hurricanes
This hurricane was rated as a Category 5 hurricane, the only one known to have hit the Florida Peninsula before Hurricane Andrew.
This was the first hurricane to strike Florida north of Stuart since the Hurricane of 1880.
At 11pm meterologists reported that Hurricane Andrew sported winds of 110 mph, and was located about 500 miles east of Miami, and was still moving west toward the Florida coast.
www.db229.com /hurricanes.htm   (1083 words)

  
 Hurricane Dora
Of course, hurricanes being what they are and Jacksonville's long history of being spared at the last minute, none of us were really sure that it was actually going to hit!
So most of the more difficult physical labor in preparing for the hurricane fell to me. I taped the windows and removed whatever I could find on the outside that might become dangerous in high winds.
Hurricane Donna had paid us a visit four years earlier, this time we had a battery operated radio with plenty of batteries.
www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/offord/329/dora.html   (804 words)

  
 Hurricane List
In this second hurricane the Atocha broke into 2 parts at her gunports; the deck floated several miles away from the hull, spilling cannon all the way.
As a side note, Betsy was the hurricane that the government was accused of “seeding.” There was project “stormfury” that experimented with spreading silver iodine crystals into clouds; however, this was never proved to be the case with Betsy.
Inez was another hurricane that appeared to be missing the Keys to the east, then on October 3, she reversed herself and came back.
www.keyshistory.org /hurricanelist.html   (3436 words)

  
 Hurricane Donna 1960   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hurricane Donna -- 1960 ~ Hurricane Donna was one of the most destructive storms to ever hit Florida...
Hurricane Donna struck the Naples area on September 10, 1960.
Hurricane Donna was a category 4 hurricane comparable to Hurricane Andrew in...
www.survival-resources.com /Survival-Resources/hurricane-donna.html   (485 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A lot more detail on Duckworth's flight and hurricane flying since then, including the names of all of those killed on the four flights that have gone down in hurricanes or typhoons since 1943, is in the book that Dr. Bob Sheets and I published last year, Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth.
A: The hurricane that zoomed by the Outer Banks of North Carolina in August of 1976 was Hurricane Belle.
A set of papers on the coastal hurricane threat, compiled by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, shows the Fort Myers area was hit by eight category 3-4-5 storms between 1901 and 1990.
www.usatoday.com /weather/resources/askjack/waskhurh.htm   (11317 words)

  
 Top 20 Miami.com - Your Top20Guide to Miami, FL.
Hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30, although the most likely time for Florida to be hit is during the peak of the Cape Verde season which is late August through the end of September [1].
Because of where it is located in Florida, Miami is statistically one of the most likely places for a hurricane strike in the United States, although it did avoid much of the 2004 hurricane onslaught which impacted the rest of the state.
The last time a hurricane had a direct hit on Miami was hurricane King in 1950, although many other hurricanes have affected the city, including hurricane Cleo in 1964, Betsy in 1965, Andrew in 1992, Irene in 1999, and Katrina and Wilma in 2005.
top20miami.com   (4371 words)

  
 Atmos Carib
Tropical storms and hurricanes that passed within 2 degrees latitude of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands from 1515-2002
Tropical storm developed between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, moved northwest reaching hurricane intensity and changing course to nwrd after passing 20 degrees north latitude on the 3rd day.
Very destructive hurricane in St. Thomas, passed E of the Virgin Islands in a SE-NW direction.
atmos.uprm.edu /pasthurricanes.html   (1255 words)

  
 FPL | History of Hurricanes
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew knocked out power to 1.4 million customers, causing $20 billion in destruction and more than 20 deaths.
2005 – At dawn on October 24, Hurricane Wilma made landfall in southwest Florida as a Category 3 storm and pushed rapidly and with a wider than expected swath of hurricane force winds through the heart of FPL’s heavily populated west coast and South Florida regions.
Not since 1886 and Texas has a state experienced four hurricanes in a single season; Jeanne is the fourth hurricane to punish Florida in six weeks.
www.fpl.com /storm/hurricane_history.shtml   (1144 words)

  
 hurricane camille directory - NewOrleansArchive.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
ABOUT THESE FOOTNOTES for hurricane camille - for over a year, we researched the best ways to present information on these content pages, attempting to strike a balance between publishing volumes of information while limiting the need to scroll down through lengthy lists of items..
the method we've chosen, as is used on this hurricane camille topic area, is to present lists of links at the top of the page in handy "title only" form, while providing additional commentary for those who desire it, as footnotes.
Florida 1954 Hurricane Carol 1960 Hurricane Donna 1961 Hurricane Carla 1964 Hurricane Cleo 1965 Hurricane Betsy 1969 Hurricane Camille 1970 Hurricane Celia 1977 Hurricane...
www.neworleansarchive.com /archived-search-hurricane/hurricane-camille.php   (410 words)

  
 North Carolina Hazards Page
In 1964, Hurricane Cleo caused 2 to 8 inches of rain to fall.
In September 1984, Hurricane Diana caused widespread freshwater flooding in New Hanover County.
In September 1995, Hurricane Luis caused coastal flooding and astronomical high tides caused overwash in Carolina Beach.
www.csc.noaa.gov /products/nchaz/htm/flood.htm   (422 words)

  
 COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION- 1993 Tropicland Hurricanes
Hurricanes are deadly reminders of nature's grip on the universe.
When hurricanes hit land ("landfall") the surge of water is as dangerous as the strong winds.
Camille was one of the strongest and deadliest of hurricanes in this century.
www.cosmicbaseball.com /93th.html   (2629 words)

  
 Katrina Expected To Become A Hurricane Before Landfall On Florida Coast - The Post Chronicle
Tropical Storm Katrina is expected to strike the Florida coast as a minimal hurricane late Thursday or early Friday.
A 170-mile stretch of coastline between Vero Beach and Florida City is under a hurricane warning, which means winds of at least 74 mph are expected within 24 hours.
The hurricane center's latest five-day forecast shows Katrina curving to the north sharply after it enters the Gulf Of Mexico, which would take it directly into the Panhandle, at hurricane strength, by late Sunday or early Monday.
www.postchronicle.com /news/breakingnews/printer_212427.shtml   (526 words)

  
 Southeast Florida under hurricane warning
It was moving west at about 8 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center, and that motion was expected to continue for the next 24 hours.
The hurricane center's latest five-day forecast shows Katrina curving to the north after it enters the Gulf, which would take it directly into the Panhandle, at hurricane strength, by late Sunday.
In addition to the hurricane warning, a tropical storm watch was issued Thursday for the Florida west coast from Florida City to Englewood, including Florida Bay.
www.findwhatevernow.com /search/archive/s1/2005/08/25/5046.html   (632 words)

  
 Hurricane, Tropical Storm information for Storm CLEO, 1958
Including all wind speed, central pressure, position, tracking chart, and storm category information for each hurricane or tropical storm advisory issued.
All information from the official hurricane advisories or widely agreed upon historical records.
Historical data for hurricanes from the NHC records.
www.hurricane.com /hurricane-season/hurricane-CLEO-1958-836.html   (314 words)

  
 TIME.com: Calamitous Cleo -- Sep. 4, 1964 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sure enough, within two days Hurricane Cleo was island-hopping toward Miami, and before the storm dwindled off the Georgia coast at week's end, it had left behind 150 deaths and a jagged line of destruction that cost property owners more than $300 million.
Bypassing Puerto Rico, Cleo next moved into Haiti, where the port city of Les Cayes was practically leveled, and 124 Haitian lives were lost.
It was the first time in 14 years that a hurricane had done that, and many new Miamians will be talking about Cleo 14 years hence.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,830595,00.html   (730 words)

  
 Hurricaneville Book Review: September, 2002
The first book, Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms 1871-2001 by John M. Williams and Iver W. Dudedall, discusses every tropical storm and hurricane on record that has hit Florida.
Nevertheless, all of the storms mentioned are thoroughly described in terms of their storm track, sustained winds, and destruction left in their wake.
Browning was a 12-year old volunteer at the zoo, who was killed in the hurricane.
www.hurricaneville.com /book_review_sep_2002.html   (732 words)

  
 Tuna Point Lighthouse Inc. Adds Hurricane Information Page to Websites
In the height of the hurricane season, Tuna Point Lighthouse Inc. adds a Hurricane information page to http://www.tunapointlighthouse.homestead.com The page has information on every hurricane and tropical storm that has passed within 2 degrees of latitude of Puerto Rico as well as Hurricane preparedness information in streaming video format and interactive maps.
The Video has a lot of Florida based information obviously, but there is such great Hurricane and Tropical storm safety information we were eager to include it.
Van Parys goes on to say "We have also been able to include, a Steaming Video on Hurricane Preparedness." This video was originally produced by the Office of Emergency Management of Miami Dade county Florida.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/9/prweb432529.htm   (519 words)

  
 Fort Pierce,Florida hurricanes
2005,Oct 24th Hurricane Wilma hits just south by 25 miles from the SW with 105mph winds while moving quickly N.E. Damage was extensive but not as bad as areas to south.Moderate roof damage to many buildings,signs down & many trees toppled.
1999 oct 16th hurricane irene hits just east with 75mph winds 1 moble home roof blown off,1/3 county without power.
Second hurricane hit in 22 days.Some roofs blown off homes,many mobile homes damaged.School officials reported that schools suffered more severe damage during Hurricane Jeanne than Hurricane Frances.
www.hurricanecity.com /city/fortpierce.htm   (535 words)

  
 Lake Worth,Florida hurricanes
2005,Oct 24th Hurricane Wilma hits from the SW with 105mph winds while moving quickly N.E. Wilma passed over Lake worth with the eye passing directly overhead.
1964 Hurricane Isabell hits from the SW with 125mph winds Oct 15 as she maintained her intensity even after hitting the west coast
1999 oct 16th hurricane irene hits with 75mph winds press 29.18 very heavy rain here but no hurricane force winds.
www.hurricanecity.com /city/lakeworth.htm   (398 words)

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