1915 Atlantic hurricane season
The Atlantic hurricane season in 1915 was not very active. While the first system was formed on April 29, but only at the beginning of August, the first hurricane developed. Overall, ten tropical depressions, six of which developed into storms developed. Three of the five hurricanes were major hurricanes, according to current understanding. Two of them hit the coast of the United States to the Gulf of Mexico, hurricane passed over the two devastated by the 1900 Galveston Hurricane city of Galveston away, Hurricane six hit on New Orleans.
Storms
Hurricane One
The first storm hit in early August at Cape Canaveral, then turned northeastward from and broke up over New England.
Hurricane Two
The second hurricane was seen only on 5 August in the eastern part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. He moved westward and developed to August 9 in a hurricane before he crossed the Lesser Antilles on August 10. When the hurricane had moved on by the Caribbean Sea, he moved just south past Puerto Rico and Hispaniola before he crossed on August 13 in Jamaica, where it caused great damage. South of Cuba, the storm intensified into a major hurricane swept over the western tip of Cuba of time. About the Gulf of Mexico took his strength to continue and he achieved his greatest strength with sustained winds of 215 km / h Shortly before hitting the country he slowed down and hit Galveston, Texas on August 17 as a Category 4 hurricane. Overland he turned north from, was on August 18, extratropical and broke up on 23 August. Just fifteen years after the first Galveston hurricane in 1900, weakened the cyclone the already damaged economy of Texas. On his way he taught a loss of 50 million U.S. dollars ( 921 million U.S. dollars in 2005 prices) and killed about 400 people.
Hurricane Three
Three hurricane, which was first observed on August 28th at the Mid-Atlantic, moved with peak wind speeds of 195 km / h northward. He came to a stop and then drifted near Bermuda from south. Strong wind and surf directed there to moderate damage. The hurricane then turned off to the west and then north to finally be on an eastern course on 10 September for the extratropical storm.
Hurricane Four
On August 31, a tropical storm developed south of Jamaica. It was directed towards the north -north-west and strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir -Simpson Hurricane Scale before he met western Cuba on 3 September. About the Gulf of Mexico he had wind speeds of 130 km / h, but he lost in strength, until he finally met Apalachicola in Florida. The storm continued to move in a northerly direction until it broke up over southern Michigan on September 9. The fact that early warnings had been pronounced, there were no fatalities and the hurricane taught so only low to moderate damage.
Tropical storm Five
This strong tropical storm remained far from land over the open ocean.
Hurricane Six
The sixth and final hurricane of 1915 was observed west of the Lesser Antilles first on September 22. He wandered through the Caribbean and won in intensity and reached its greatest strength on September 25 with winds of 230 km / h On September 29, he arrived at Grand Isle in Louisiana over the country and had as a Category 3 hurricane at this time peak winds of 150 km / h
The pressure drop at 951 hPa (mbar) at that time was the lowest over land in the United States each measured value. The storm triggered severe flooding and killed 275 people - by the timely warning, this number has remained low. The winds and covered a damaged building roofs in New Orleans, Louisiana, where wind speeds of just under 160 km / h were measured. The following generations in the town remembered this storm as the Great Storm of 1915 The damage to property was at 13 million U.S. dollars ( in 2005 prices: 239 million U.S. dollars). Estimated, which alone five million of the city New Orleans accounted for.