Anyone remembers hurricane Audrey?

[cycloneye]

On june 27 1957 today as I type this post is another anniversary of that cat 4 cane that made landfall in LA drowing 300 people at cameron parish.It had winds of 140 mph at landfall and it is not usual to have cat 4 canes in june but if Stormsfury or others have those stats about cat 3 or higher canes on june in the GOM how many times it has happened it would be helpful to know.

[Stormsfury]

There have been only 3 major hurricanes since 1886 in June ... (I do not have the datasets on 1851-1885 on hand as of yet aside from internet access) ... Storm #1 in 1945, Hurricane Audrey in 1957, and Hurricane Alma in 1966 ...

Storm #1 - In 1945, originating June 20th, 1945


Hurricane Audrey in 1957, originating June 25th, 1957 in the BOC. (Note: Audrey was the 2nd June storm, not the first - there was an unnamed tropical storm which formed on the 8th of June in the Central GOM and moved NE - Storm #1 -1957 IMG


And Hurricane Alma in 1966, originating June 6th, 1966, which likely gave the West Coast of Florida hell by the looks of the best track plot ...

[cycloneye]

Thanks as always Stormsfury when stats and past data comes for those grafics of the 3 canes.

[JetMaxx]

There were two other cat-3's I'm aware of in June...in June of 1934 a cat-3 (949 mb) struck Louisiana and in 1886 a "great hurricane" struck the Florida panhandle on June 21 (per former NHC Forecaster Gordon Dunn, who wrote the reference book I read, a "great hurricane" designation indicated estimated sustained winds of at least 125 mph).

Sincerely,
Perry

[cycloneye]

Thanks Perry as always helping us with the historic prospective of pasts seasons.

[Stormsfury]

Perry, 1934 featured no major hurricanes in the entire season according to best track data plots ... including a rare late May tropical storm which made landfall in Southern South Carolina ... (I didn't know this before looking at this dataset again just now) ...

But there was a hurricane in June that hit Louisiana ...


I know the data from 1886 could be sketchy as best, but on the "best track" plots and intensity, they did not rate those June storms in the major category, however, there were frequent hits .. two in June, and another in mid-July ... 3 hits in nearly the same area in a month's time ...

More details here at the Unisys site.
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... index.html

[JetMaxx]

Mike,
On the NHC archives website (most intense U.S. hurricanes) and in a 1993 NHC memorandun I have (written and updated by NHC forecasters) the June 1934 hurricane is listed as a category 3 landfall in Louisiana.

The information about the June 1886 Apalachicola hurricane was in a 1964 book called "Florida Hurricanes" written by Gordon Dunn. The hurricane is also mentioned as a "great hurricane" in the recent book "Florida's Hurricane History" (published by the University of North Carolina press); and is also mentioned as a violent and destructive hurricane in 1982's "The American Weather Book" by the late David Ludlum.

Take care,
Perry

[BreinLa]

I remember her I was a mere child of 5 yrs old but I remember being evacuated to the High school with my parents. She was my first Storm.

[vbhoutex]

Wow, looking back I now realize why Hurricane Alma was so "strong" in Tallahassee. I lived there in 1966 and we had 75 mph sustained winds winds there with higher gusts. Lots of trees down and some minor structural damage in the poorer sections of the city. Not being as aware of storms then as I am now I thought that we were hit by a weak hurricane in Tallahassee. We never did have an eye though, now that I think back and in fact never even had a calmer time like sometimes happens with a decaying hurricane that is inland. Now I know why. It wasn't a minor hurricane and we were on the "clean" side of the hurricane, albeit only by about 25-30 miles or so. Now a lot more makes sense. Thanks guys!

[Colin]

Thanks a lot for those pics, SF... That map of the Louisiana one came right up through Philly... although it was MUCH weaker by the time it hit, obviously.