1886 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1886 hurricane season began on June 1 and ended on November 30. In this period the most tropical storms in the Atlantic basin arise.
Storms
The season started with the landfall of three storms in June. This is 1886, the only year in which occurred in June three hurricanes (1909, 1936 and 1968, there were three tropical storms in June). The first hurricane hit near the border between Louisiana and Texas on land, the other two in Florida.
The fourth storm of the year was born on July 12 in the western Caribbean. He moved north and reached before landfall in Florida on July 18, hurricane force. He reached a top speed of 137 km / h over the western Atlantic and has been downgraded to extra- tropical storm on July 22.
The Indianola Hurricane of 1886 caused catastrophic damage at the time the largest and most economically important city of Texas. Indianola was taken in late August, the hurricane had on shore a speed of 250 km / h and was thus at the boundary between categories 4 and 5 At least 25 people died.
The sixth storm of the season, which was formed on August 15, already moving as Hurricane over the Lesser Antilles, and crossed the Caribbean. Jamaica was hit with winds of 177 km / h. When the storm hit Cuba, he was even more intense. Then he moved to the northeast, and dissipated on August 27, south of Newfoundland on.
The seventh storm was a hurricane, which dissolved in the Atlantic off Canada.
The eighth storm took a westerly course over Cuba in the Gulf of Mexico. He turned to the north, in the western Gulf and met on 23 September near Brownsville, Texas with about 160 km / h on land.
In late September, there was the ninth storm over the open central Atlantic.
On October 8, a tropical storm was observed in the northeastern Caribbean. He moved to the northwest, reaching on 11 over the Gulf of Mexico hurricane strength. Late on October 12 met the storm near the Louisiana - Texas border on land. Heavy rains associated with it and a tidal wave cost 175 to 200 lives and caused a quarter million dollars of damage.
The last two storms took a course to the northeast, the second Haiti crossed before he turned off to the open sea.
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