HURRICANE HILDA 1964 INFO NEEDED?

[AussieMark]

Does anyone have any stats on hurricane on Hurricane Hilda 1964.

Stuff like landfall
intensity
damage bill
etc.

[JtSmarts]

Hi tropicalweatherwatcher I found this info at
http://www.intellicast.com/Almanac/Sout ... l/October/

October 3, 1964 -

Hurricane Hilda crossed the Louisiana coastline with sustained winds of 120 mph at Franklin, LA. Hilda killed 38 and produced a total damage of $125 million. An F4 tornado spawned by Hurricane Hilda cut a 2 mile path through Larose, LA, killing 22 people and injuring 165.

[AussieMark]

Thanks.

[JtSmarts]

You're welcome.

[JetMaxx]

Hilda formed from a tropical wave passing just south of Cuba....and at one time in the southern Gulf of Mexico was a strong category 4 hurricane with 150 mph sustained winds (941 mb).

Even though weakening, Hilda was still a major hurricane at landfall in south-central Louisiana (the Franklin to Morgan City area)....pressure was 950 mb and sustained winds 125 mph at landfall. In the GOM before landfall, several oil drilling rigs measured gusts over 140 mph.

The F4 tornado in Larose, LA killed the majority of the Hilda related fatalities (22 of 38); and remains to this day the deadliest hurricane spawned tornado in United States history (and only 1 of 2 F4 tornadoes associated with landfalling hurricanes since 1886; the other violent tornado occurred in Galveston, Texas as hurricane Carla made landfall in 1961...it killed 8).

[AussieMark]

thanks for those stats.

JetMaxx do u have any similar info on Carmen 1974.

[wxman57]

I went right through the middle of Carmen in '74. The NHC actually appeard to have it plotted in the wrong place prior to landfall. The positions they gave put the center just south of Vermilion Bay, but the TV showed it plotted about 60-80 miles east of there.

The NHC track moved it into Grand Isle, but it moved inland much farther west into Vermilion Bay. I was running around telling everyone in the neighborhood that it was coming right at US, not Grand Isle. The NHC never even put us in a warning before landfall.

Anyway, Carmen ingested a whole lot of dry air just prior to landfall. I doubt many areas actually recorded sustained 75+ mph wind. In Lafayette, we got maybe 40-50 mph sustained (similar to Lili) with gusts near hurricane-force. Another thing I remember is that there was very little rain. We were out riding our bikes during the storm.

[JetMaxx]

Carmen was a very powerful hurricane that formed south of Puerto Rico and became a hurricane just south of Jamaica....it deepened rapidly over the western Caribbean, and was a strong cat-4 (150 mph/ 928 mb) when it made landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula near Chetumal....where sustained winds of 136 mph and a gust to 161 mph were recorded.

Carmen slowed and turned to the NW and north over the Yucatan, and weakened to a tropical storm. However, once the circulation moved over the warm Gulf of Mexico waters, rapid intensification occurred, and within 36 hours, Carmen was again a powerful cat-4 hurricane (145 mph/ 937 mb) bearing down on the Louisiana Coast.

Fortunately (as wxman57 alluded), Carmen entrained a large amount of dry air in the final 12-24 hours before landfall and weakened. Although NHC has Carmen listed as a cat-3 landfall in Louisiana (120 mph/ 952 mb), IMO it is unlikely sustained winds exceeded 110 mph.

The highest sustained wind speed recorded was 86 mph (75 kts) at Morgan City, LA....gusts in a couple areas were measured in excess of 120 mph (and may have been stronger over sparsely populated coastal bayou areas south of Houma).

Carmen turned toward the NW nearing landfall, and WNW inland over southern Louisiana as a weakening hurricane then tropical storm....and dissapated over SE Texas north of Houston).

On a personal note: hurricane Carmen was the first hurricane I ever tracked (at age 12). As a matter of fact, tracking Carmen got me in serious trouble with my parents. As it made landfall, I traced the path of the hurricane on a Louisiana map in one of my new encyclopedia's (with a purple magic marker

[AussieMark]

I am fairly new to tracking storms - 1998 was my first year of storm tracking.

[wxman57]

I am fairly new to tracking storms - 1998 was my first year of storm tracking.

1961 was my first year - I was 4 years old. My mother taught me to track them.

[Stormsfury]

Hilda formed from a tropical wave passing just south of Cuba....and at one time in the southern Gulf of Mexico was a strong category 4 hurricane with 150 mph sustained winds (941 mb).

Even though weakening, Hilda was still a major hurricane at landfall in south-central Louisiana (the Franklin to Morgan City area)....pressure was 950 mb and sustained winds 125 mph at landfall. In the GOM before landfall, several oil drilling rigs measured gusts over 140 mph.

The F4 tornado in Larose, LA killed the majority of the Hilda related fatalities (22 of 38); and remains to this day the deadliest hurricane spawned tornado in United States history (and only 1 of 2 F4 tornadoes associated with landfalling hurricanes since 1886; the other violent tornado occurred in Galveston, Texas as hurricane Carla made landfall in 1961...it killed 8).

Interesting stats regarding both Hilda and Carla. I would have thought that Beulah might have had an F4 thrown in there considering it holds the record for most tornadoes spawned by a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic with 119.

SF

[fla_girl]

facinating facts. thank you!

i experienced my first at age 12, it was eloise

[JetMaxx]

I'll never forget hurricane Eloise...September 23, 1975. As she raced NNE inland across eastern Alabama and NW Georgia, winds gusting to over 60 mph blew a small tree onto my home west of Atlanta....and one of the tree limbs came crashing through our kitchen window. :o

I was an "almost" 14 year old storm maniac, and had a ball....it was my first hurricane experience (even though sustained winds were probably only about 45-50 mph

[AussieMark]

JetMaxx, what was the last storm with hurricane force winds u experienced?

[JetMaxx]

Hurricane Opal in the Florida panhandle...October 1995.

I've experienced 65-70 mph thunderstorm winds a couple times since, but Opal was the last time I experienced hurricane force winds.

[Andrew92]

I first got at least sorta interested in hurricanes in 1992 at the age of 8 because of Hurricane Andrew because Andrew is my legal name...since then, I've been going by Andy though! But I always have had an interest in storms since 1992. In 1993, I remember hearing on the news a lot about Hurricane Emily, and then in 1994, I finally started following the whole season, and then the same in 1995. Finally, I got my own tracking map in 1996 at the age of 12 and tracked every storm of the year.

Now it's 2003 and I'm 19 and I'm still interested in it, and I love looking into the past too, especially before I was born (1984). And I too might like to experience a hurricane, but only something like Claudette...nothing more than a category 1 hurricane.

-Andrew92