Hurricane Hazel - Wikipedia
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest, second-costliest, and most intense hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed at least 469 people in Haiti before it struck the United States near the border between North and South Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane.
Hurricane Hazel, October 15, 1954 - National Weather Service
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 hurricane season (Figure 1) and is the strongest and only Category 4 hurricane to ever hit the North Carolina coast. The first indication that a tropical cyclone had formed came on October 5, 1954 about 50 miles east of the island of Grenada in the Windward Islands.
Hurricane Hazel - October 15, 1954 - National Weather Service
Oct 15, 2024 · With an estimated loss of 1,200 lives and $381 million in damages, Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest storm of the 1954 hurricane season. Because of the storm's rapid movement, it traveled northward through the United States to areas that were not prepared for such an event.
60th Anniversary of Hurricane Hazel - NOAA's Atlantic …
On October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel made its devastating landfall near Myrtle Beach, SC. Hazel had already ravaged islands in the Caribbean and Bahamas and would go on to wreak a path of destruction up the eastern United States and into Canada.
Hurricane Hazel 60th Anniversary - National Weather Service
The hurricane turned northward and crossed the southeastern Bahamas on the 13th, followed by a northwestward turn on the 14th. Hazel turned north and accelerated on October 15, making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near the North Carolina-South Carolina border.
Natural Disaster Story Map - Hurricane Hazel - ArcGIS StoryMaps
Oct 17, 2023 · Hurricane Hazel was a natural disaster because it caught people by surprise. It had severe storms and killed thousands of people. Hazel started as a category 3 hurricane, then 4 and calmed down as it hit Toronto.
Hurricane Hazel remembered 70 years later - WITN
Oct 15, 2024 · Hurricane Hazel was one of the most powerful and destructive storms to strike Eastern North Carolina, making landfall on October 15, 1954, near the North Carolina-South Carolina border as a...
HAZEL - October 15, 1954 / Remembering the hurricane that …
Oct 15, 2007 · Hazel killed 19 people and injured more than 200 in North Carolina. It destroyed 15,000 homes and structures and caused an estimated $136 million in property losses in the...
Hurricane Hazel - October 15, 1954 - Weather Prediction Center
Hurricane Hazel - October 15, 1954. Passing through the southern Windward Islands as a well-developed hurricane on October 5th, the cyclone passed just north of Grenada moving west-northwest. On the night of the 9th/10th, a deep trough developed in the eastern United States, and Hazel turned northward, passing through the Windward Channel into the
Hazel 1954 — Harms Way
Hazel ranks as one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to strike the United States in the twentieth century. Fortunately, storms of its magnitude are relatively rare events, and few other hurricanes deserve comparison with it.