Huricane Camile

Hurricane Camille was thethird and strongest tropical cyclone and second hurricane during the 1969 Atlantic Huricane season. It was the second of three catastrophic Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the United States during the 20th century, which it did near the mouth of the Missisipi river on the night of August 17. Camille was the second strongest U.S. landfalling hurricane in recorded history in terms of atmospheric presure.




The storm formed on 14 August and rapidly deepned 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, estimated sustained winds of 280 km/h and a peak official storm surge of7.3 m. The hurricane flattened nearly everything along the coast of the US 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, $9.27 billion 2017 USD) in damages. To date, 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.