Tropical Storm Hazel (1965)
Tropical Storm Hazel, sometimes called Cyclone Hazel, was a short-lived tropical cyclone in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which caused a lot of damage in Mexico. The storm caused in the Pacific hurricane season 1965, the greatest damage. It formed from a northward pulling disorder originating southeast of Socorro Island. After reaching the strength of a tropical storm on the Saffir -Simpson introduced later Hurricane Scale turned the hurricane to the east -northeast, which is occupied by the weather data of a ship. After landfall at Mazatlan on September 26, the storm quickly lost its tropical characteristics. At least six people lost their lives, the effects of the storm. Despite its brief existence, the storm caused severe damage to the Mexican economy. In Mazatlan, many houses were washed away or flooded by muddy water. The material damage reached about 10 million U.S. dollars (1965 and today around 77 million U.S. dollars ), but was possibly higher. The name Hazel was removed from the list of names of tropical cyclones in the Pacific Basin.
Storm History
On September 22, a weak tropical disturbance was southeast of Socorro noticed. The disorder wandered until September 23 northward uneventful. Then she was classified about 160 km east of Socorro as a tropical depression. The hurricane database of the National Hurricane Center says, however, that Hazel intensified to a tropical depression until September 24. Reports from the island as well as several nearby ships suggest that wind speeds of 55 km / h occurred in a radius of 80 km. The depression intensified on 24 September in a tropical storm that moved north at a forward speed of 15 km / hr.
Satellite images suggest that prevailed in the center wind speeds of up to 80 km / hr. The lowest air pressure of the storm was reported at about the same time from the ship Santa Anita with 986 mbar ( hPa). On 26 September, the ship Philippine President Quezon reported south- southwest winds of 95 km / h high seas and a wave height of 3.7 m, suggesting suggesting that the storm now moved in a north - northeasterly. South of Mazatlan pulled the storm on 26 September over land and rapidly lost its tropical characteristics. Hazel was partly responsible for that could not intensify in the Atlantic Ocean Tropical Storm Debbie because Hazel led to a change of the temperature distribution over Texas.
Effects
Hazel struck the city Mazatlan, thus there arose substantial damage. The weather reports had not reported that the storm reached the coast, let alone pull over country would. That's why many residents were unprepared. Around 10,000 people fled from the low -lying parts of Mazatlán. Three people were killed in the city by storm; two fishermen drowned and a boy died of an electric shock. Three others were also killed in a rural area in Nayarit due to electric shock. Thousands were left homeless after Hazel's draft. Many dwellings made of wood, sheet metal and chipboard were washed away or up to 180 cm high flooded. Floodwaters damaged or destroyed on the coast bridges and highways. The crab fishing fleet of Mazatlán, which was a foundation of the economy in the coastal town, was seriously damaged. In the south of Sinaloa, the crop was destroyed 22,000 hectares of agricultural land, mainly cotton, corn and sorghum. In addition, there were high losses to livestock. After the storm still 1,000 people sought refuge in schools, and from the areas around Barron and El Wailamo was reported that residents had to climb due to flooding on trees and roofs. At least 50 fishing boats were damaged by the storm or dropped. The damage to property was estimated at ten million U.S. dollars ( 1965), which made it the most costly Hazel storm of the season.
The name Hazel was canceled after the season of the list of names of tropical cyclones and in the hurricane season in 1969 replaced with Heather, after 1966, the annually changing lists of names were introduced. It is interesting that in 1954 another tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin also bore the name, which also led to the deletion of the name. Hazel is therefore the only name that was deleted in both the Atlantic and eastern Pacific basins of the name list.