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Hurricane Camille and the suffering caused thousands of people. It shows that while hundreds of lives were lost to the hurricane, thousands were saved due to emergency plans, trained rescue teams, and help from the forces of government. "
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US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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Hurricane Camille was the third and strongest tropical cyclone and second hurricane during the
1969 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the second of three catastrophic
Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the
United States during the
20th century (the others being 1935's
Labor Day hurricane and
1992's
Hurricane Andrew), which it did near the mouth of the
Mississippi River on the night of August 17. Estimates put sustained winds around
200 miles per hour (320 km/h) but the true speed will never be known since the weather equipment was destroyed at landfall.
Camille was the second strongest
U.S. landfalling hurricane in recorded history (by wind pressure), second only to the
Labor Day Hurricane in 1935 but holds the distinction of having the strongest winds. It was also the first modern
Category 5 hurricane to ever receive a person's name when making landfall in the United States.
The storm formed on August 14 and rapidly deepened. It scraped the western edge of
Cuba at
Category 2 intensity. Camille rapidly deepened once again over the
Gulf of Mexico and made landfall with a pressure of 900 mbar (hPa; 26.58 inHg), estimated sustained winds of
175 mph (282 km/h) and a peak official storm surge of 24 feet (7.3 m). The hurricane flattened nearly everything along the coast of the
U.S. state of
Mississippi, and caused additional flooding and deaths inland while crossing the
Appalachian Mountains of
Virginia. In total, Camille killed 259 people and caused $1.42 billion (
1969 USD, $9.13 billion
2015 USD) in damages. To this day, a complete understanding of the reasons for the system's power, extremely rapid intensification over open water and strength at landfall has not been achieved
...
The origins of Hurricane Camille were from a tropical wave off the western coast of
Africa on August 5... It is estimated
Tropical Storm Camille developed on the morning on August 14 with winds of 60 mph (97 km/h), about 50 miles (80 km) west-northwest of
Grand Cayman...
As the storm approached the western coast of Cuba, it began rapid deepening, reaching hurricane status and less than 12 hours later attained winds of
110 mph (
180 km/h)...
At the time, it was not expected to intensify further. However, a subsequent
Hurricane Hunters flight early on August 17 recorded a pressure of
905 mbar (hPa; 26.73 inHg), at the time the lowest pressure recorded by reconnaissance aircraft. That made Camille the most intense hurricane since the
1935 Labor Day hurricane; currently it is the sixth most intense
Atlantic hurricane, as ranked by lowest pressure. At the same time, maximum wind speeds in the hurricane peaked at 175 mph (280 km/h) by 00
UTC on August 17...
After passing very near southeastern
Louisiana, Hurricane Camille made landfall early on August 18 in
Waveland, Mississippi.
Maximum wind speeds near the coastline were estimated to have been about 175 mph (282 km/h) with a pressure of 900 mbar (hPa; 26.58 inHg)...
Although Hurricane Camille and
Hurricane Katrina took different paths, they both reached the same section of the coast of Mississippi with similar destructive effects. Camille intensified more rapidly than
Katrina, and unlike Katrina, Camille maintained status as a Category 5 hurricane until landfall. However, the observed minimum pressure in Katrina was slightly lower. Both hurricanes shared the common aspect of undergoing periods of rapid intensification...
- published: 08 Apr 2015
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