Hurricane Hazel - Wikipedia
WEBHurricane Hazel was the deadliest, second-costliest, and most intense hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed at least 469 people in Haiti before it struck the United States near the border between North and …
Hurricane Hazel, October 15, 1954 - National Weather Service
WEBHurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 hurricane season (Figure 1) and is the strongest and only Category 4 hurricane to ever hit the North Carolina coast. The first indication that a tropical cyclone had formed came on October 5, 1954 about 50 miles east of the island of Grenada in the Windward Islands.
Hurricane Hazel - The Canadian Encyclopedia
WEBHurricane Hazel struck the Toronto area on 15-16 October 1954, with devastating results. It was Canada's worst hurricane and Toronto's worst natural disaster. During the storm, winds reached 124 km/h and over 200 millimetres of rain fell in just 24 hours.
HAZEL - October 15, 1954 / Remembering the hurricane that ...
WEBOct 15, 2007 · Hurricane Hazel slammed ashore with winds of 140 mph or more at the North Carolina-South Carolina state line around 9:30 or 10 a.m. that Friday morning, exactly on the highest lunar tide of...
Hurricane Hazel 60th Anniversary - National Weather Service
WEBThe hurricane turned northward and crossed the southeastern Bahamas on the 13th, followed by a northwestward turn on the 14th. Hazel turned north and accelerated on October 15, making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near the North Carolina-South Carolina border.
Hurricane Hazel destroys parts of NC and Myrtle Beach in 1954 ...
WEBOct 15, 2019 · Roughly 80 percent of waterfront dwellings in Myrtle Beach were destroyed by Hurricane Hazel, which led to the rebuilding of Myrtle Beach as the vacation destination it is today.
Was Hazel North Carolina’s Worst-Case Hurricane?
WEBOct 15, 2019 · Hazel resulted in 19 deaths in North Carolina, many due to drowning, and an inflation-adjusted $957 million in crop and property damage. Because of Hazel’s fast forward speed — just 12 hours after making landfall, it was over southern Canada — rainfall wasn’t widespread across the state.