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1900 GREAT GALVESTON,
TEXAS HURRICANE |
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DATES: 27 August - 12 September, 1900
HIGHEST WINDS: 150 mph
LOWEST PRESSURE: 936 mb |
DAMAGE: $25-50 Million (1900 USD)
$928 Million (2000 USD)
FATALITIES: 6,000-12,000 (Direct) |
AREAS AFFECTED: Puerto Rico, Dominican
Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Florida, Louisiana, Central United States, Great
Lakes, Eastern Canada |
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The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 made landfall at the city of Galveston,
Texas on September 8, 1900. It had sustained winds estimated at 135
miles per hour at landfall, making it a Category Four storm
on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
The hurricane caused enormous loss of life. The death toll has been
estimated to be between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals, depending on
whether one counts casualties from the city of Galveston itself, the
larger island, or the region as a whole. The number most cited in
official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of
casualties of any Atlantic-basin hurricane, after the Great Hurricane of
1780, and Hurricane Mitch (1998). The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is,
to date, the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United
States. By contrast, the second-deadliest storm to strike the United
States, the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, caused approximately 2,500
deaths, and the deadliest storm of recent times, Hurricane Katrina,
resulted in approximately 1,600 deaths. View a PDF the full 1900
seasonal report from the
Monthly Weather Review.
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Track of the 1900 Galveston, Texas Hurricane. The storm made landfall over Galveston Island on September 8, 1900. Few buildings remain standing at Galveston, Texas following the Great Hurricane of 1900. Over 6,000 people lost their lives in the city alone and it is estimated as many as 2,000-6,000 additional deaths occured along the remainder of the upper Texas coast, making this storm the deadliest natural disaster in American history. Wreckage covering the decimated city of Galveston, Texas in the wake of the Great 1900 Hurricane. Bodies being carted off for disposal at sea after the Great Hurricane of 1900. Roughly 8,000 people lost their lives in the storm, out of a population of 38,000. Homes in Galveston were reduced to timber from the combined effects of the hurricanes winds and storm surge. Wreckage covering the decimated city of Galveston, Texas in the wake of the Great 1900 Hurricane. Even houses farther inland on the island were pushed off their foundations and left leaning, following the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The Galveston Sea Wall being erected in July of 1905.
Track of the 1900 Galveston, Texas Hurricane. The storm made landfall over Galveston Island on September 8, 1900.
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