Hurricane Donna - Wikipedia
WEBHurricane Donna, known in Puerto Rico as Hurricane San Lorenzo, was the strongest hurricane of the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season, and caused severe damage to the Lesser Antilles, the Greater Antilles, and the East Coast of the United States, especially Florida, in August–September.
Hurricane Donna batters the Florida Keys - HISTORY
WEBNov 13, 2009 · On September 10, 1960, Hurricane Donna hits the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm. Having formed near Cape Verde off the African coast, it would go on to cause 150 deaths from Puerto Rico...
64 years ago today, Hurricane Donna wreaked havoc on the …
WEBSep 11, 2024 · On this day in 1960, one of the strongest and most damaging hurricanes in history struck the Eastern Shore. Hurricane Donna had formed off of Africa and moved across to enter the Gulf of Mexico after battering Cuba and South Florida’s coast before moving across Florida.
Hurricanes: Science and Society: 1960- Hurricane Donna
WEBHurricane Donna, a Cape Verde-type hurricane, was the only system to reach major intensity (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) during the 1960 hurricane season. It was first detected as a tropical wave off the coast of Africa on August 29, 1960.
Hurricane history in Florida: Donna slammed Naples, Fort Myers …
WEBSep 25, 2022 · Hurricane Donna will go down in history as one of SWFL's most damaging storms. Donna hit Naples and Fort Myers in September 1960.
Sept. 9-14, 1960: Hurricane Donna devastates Florida and the …
WEBSep 9, 2007 · Forty-seven years after Hurricane Donna carved out a path of death and destruction from the Leeward Islands to eastern Canada, the storm remains one of the strongest and most destructive ...
55th Anniversary of Hurricane Donna - NOAA's Atlantic …
WEBOn the morning of September 10, 1960, Hurricane Donna came roaring through the Florida Keys as it began its rampage up the east coast of the United States. Four days later it had affected every state along the Eastern Seaboard leaving an astonishing trail of destruction.
Donna - National Weather Service
WEBHurricane Donna, the first major hurricane in Florida since the Miami storm of October 1950, was first detected in the tropical North Atlantic on September 2. Donna then travelled for some 2000 miles mostly in a west-northwest direction through the extreme north-eastern Antilles, passing some 70 miles north of Puerto Rico, info the Florida Straits.
Hurricane Donna - September 3-12, 1960 - Weather Prediction …
WEBHurricane Donna - September 3-12, 1960. Hurricane Donna was first noted at hurricane strength on September 2 in the tropical north Atlantic. The cyclone. moved west-northwest for roughly 2000 miles passing through the extreme northeast Lesser Antilles, passing.
1960 Hurricane Donna | Coastal History | coastalbreezenews.com
WEBJul 15, 2010 · As Donna passed the Ten Thousand Islands, home to the largest strand of big mangrove trees in the world, it killed approximately fifty per cent of them, as well as forty per cent of the population of great white heron, leaving only about 600 alive and destroyed all the bald eagle nests.
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