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1919 Florida Keys Hurricane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1919 Florida Keys Hurricane

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The Florida Keys Hurricane or Atlantic Gulf Hurricane in 1919 was an intense Atlantic Hurricane. The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ... This article is about weather phenomena. ...

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1919 Florida Keys Hurricane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (321 words)
The storm's center grazed the Florida Keys on September 9 as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
Although the instruments needed to precisely measure a hurricane's wind speed were not available at the time, it is known that this hurricane produced a 12-foot storm surge in the Corpus Christi area, causing major damage.
It was the most intense hurricane to strike Key West in the 20th century.
Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2011 words)
It remains the strongest hurricane on record to have struck the United States, and was for five decades the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever.
The storm was born as a small tropical disturbance, due east of Florida in the Bahamas in late August.
In the Florida Keys, the effects of the intense storm were reported by a number of survivors.
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