The first flight that actually reached the eye of a hurricane would not happen until 1943. This was the first time anyone had ever used an aircraft to investigate the position of a tropical cyclone. dollars.Īside from the grim statistics of the storm, the event marked a first in aviation and in meteorological study when an American expatriate Captain Leonard Povey of the Aviation Corps of the Cuban Army flew an open-cockpit Curtiss Hawk II near the hurricane. It is considered the most intense hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. The hurricane ripped through the Florida Keys with winds estimated at 200 mph. The Yankee hurricane of 1935 was a rare Category 2 hurricane that affected the Bahamas and South Florida in November. The railroad remained in operation until the Labor Day hurricane in 1935. Genres Nonfiction History Historical Science. Category 5 is a sobering reminder that even with modern meteorological tools and emergency management systems, a similar storm could cause even more death and destruction today. Damages totaled $1.89 billion in today's U.S. The railroad was finally complete in 1912 and was called the 8th wonder of the world. The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 remains one of the most intense to strike Americas shores. In all, at least 408 people were killed by the storm, which made a second landfall as a weaker Category 2 storm near Cedar Key, Florida on September 4. This is actual film footage taken in Islamorada in the Florida Keys of some of the damage caused by the most intense Hurricane to ever hit any part of the U. The combination of an 18 to 20 foot storm surge and sustained winds of 185 mph, with gusts to 200 mph, swept the train cars off the track and almost completely wiped the Middle Keys clean of human habitation.
1935 HURRICANE TRACK FULL
As the hurricane approached, an evacuation train didn’t leave Miami until 4:25 pm and didn’t reach Islamorada, in the Middle Keys, until the full force of the storm surge and eyewall winds struck around 8:20 that evening. Highway 1, called the Overseas Highway, was under construction by World War I veterans employed in federal work camps in the Florida Keys. Undergoing explosive development over the next 24 hours, the storm went from a Category 1 to a Category 5 storm in just 24 hours.īack in 1935, an extension to U.S. Moving at a relatively slow westward pace of 10 mph, the storm reached hurricane strength just south of Andros Island in the Bahamas on September 1.
The storm that would become the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was first noted just north of the Turks and Caicos Islands near the end of August. The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which struck the Florida Keys on September 2, still holds the world record for the lowest pressure ever recorded at landfall for any tropical cyclone or hurricane, at 892 mb or 26.35 inHg. Even after 85 years of hurricane seasons, though, there is still one storm that is unrivaled for its strength at landfall. Assuming that Cindy is not retired at the end of the season, the name will be on the list again in 2023.Updated: Jan 18th 2022 The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935įrom Category 5 Hurricanes Dorian, Michael, Maria, and Irma, the past few years have seen more than a few of these very strong tropical cyclones ravage coastal areas around the Atlantic basin. Names for Atlantic and east Pacific tropical storms and hurricanes are now rotated every six years. Notable hurricanes for the decade of 2020-2029: 2020 - Hurricane Hanna, Hurricane Isaias, Hurricane Laura, Hurricane Paulette, Hurricane Sally, Hurricane Delta, Hurricane Eta, Hurricane Iota, Hurricane Zeta.
This means that the third storm of the season (or the "C" storm) may have actually been the fourth or fifth, but we didn't see storms in the open Atlantic. (MORE: When Hurricane Season Typically Ramps Up) This left large gaps in the open Atlantic where storms may have been missed before 1970. In just 42 hours, the 1935 hurricane intensified from a tropical storm with 70 mph winds to an incredibly intense Category 5 beast with 185 mph winds as it passed over the very warm waters of. Storms were named based on when they were sighted by radar, ships passing through or by unlucky observing stations on land rather than with satellite imagery because that was unavailable. The long-term average day for the formation of the third named storm is Aug. 13, according to the National Hurricane Center.Ī bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison occurs before the satellite era began in the 1970s. Most Cindys have occurred in July or August. The hurricane made landfall later that night as a Category 5 storm, crossing the Florida Keys between Key West and Miami, FL. The history of Cindys by date for all nine uses of the name and their strongest category. On September 2, 1935, Labor Day, the hurricane reached a peak intensity of 892 mb.
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