What the records say
- When
- 2 Sep 1935
- Kind
- Tropical cyclone
- Coordinates
- 24.92° N, 80.63° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1935 Labor Day hurricane.
Summary
1935 Labor Day hurricane: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States landfalls in the Upper Florida Keys as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds, killing 423.
1935 Labor Day hurricane
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 1935
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was an extremely powerful and devastating Atlantic hurricane that struck the southeastern United States in early September 1935. For several decades, it was the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record in terms of barometric pressure, 1-minute sustained winds, and the strongest at landfall by 1-minute sustained winds.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der Labor-Day-Hurrikan auf den Florida Keys kostet mindestens 423 Menschen das Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в результате урагана в районе архипелага Флорида-Кис (США) погибли 485 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en los Cayos de Florida (Estados Unidos) se registra el huracán más fuerte documentado en ese país, con vientos de casi 300 km/h”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page