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The Okeechobee Hurricane (or San Felipe Hurricane) was a deadly hurricane that struck Puerto Rico and southern Florida, United States, in September 1928. The hurricane killed 3,411 people and caused around 100 million dollars (1928 dollars) in damages in the United States and the Caribbean. It was the first Category 5 hurricane ever officially recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ...
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The 1928 Atlantic hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. ...
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1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Formation
The storm formed as a Cape Verde-type hurricane off the coast of Africa. Hurricane re-analysis in the 1990s found that the storm probably formed on September 6. It was first sighted in the tropics on September 10. A Cape Verde-type hurricane is a tropical cyclone that develops near the Cape Verde islands, and becomes a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ...
September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ...
Impact in the Caribbean On September 12 the hurricane passed by Guadaloupe, then moved over the Leeward Islands, particularly the Virgin Islands. On September 13 the storm struck Puerto Rico directly as a Category 5 hurricane, allegedly packing winds of 160 mph. Here it killed between 1,000 and 2,000 people and caused USD $50 million (1928 dollars) in property damage; it is remembered as the San Felipe Hurricane. Next it passed over the Bahamas where it claimed another 18 lives. Some sources list the death toll throughout the Caribbean as 1,575, but it is unclear where this number comes from. September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ...
Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean Sea, is an archipelago with a total area of 1,704 km² located in the Eastern Caribbean. ...
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September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ...
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Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ...
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The San Felipe Hurricane can mean either: The 1876 San Felipe Hurricane The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, also called the 1928 San Felipe Hurricane or the Second San Felipe Hurricane Both of these names are given because the hurricane struck Puerto Rico on September 13, the day of Saint Philip (San...
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Impact on Southern Florida After leaving the Caribbean, the hurricane gained strength again as it moved toward Florida.
In the evening of September 16 the storm made landfall in southern Florida as a strong Category 4 hurricane. Atmospheric pressure at landfall was measured at 929 mb (27.43 inHg) and winds "in excess" of 150 mph (but note all such measurements are suspect). The eye passed ashore in Palm Beach County. Damage along the coastline from the heavy winds and 10-foot storm surge was catastrophic; however the area was only sparsely inhabited at the time. September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ...
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a scale classifying hurricanes by the intensity of their sustained winds, developed in 1969 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and National Hurricane Center director Bob Simpson. ...
Location of county in the state of Florida County Seat West Palm Beach, Florida Area - Total - Water 6,181 km² (2,386 mi²) 1,068 km² (412 mi²) 17. ...
 Aftermath of the hurricane in southern Florida Inland, the hurricane wreaked much more widespread destruction along the more heavily populated coast of Lake Okeechobee. Residents had been warned to evacuate the low ground earlier in the day, but after the hurricane did not arrive on schedule many thought it had missed and returned to their homes. When the worst of the storm crossed the lake – with winds measured on the ground at around 140 mph – the low pressure and south-blowing wind caused a storm surge to overflow the small dike that had been built at the south end of the lake. The resulting flood covered an area of hundreds of square miles with water that in some places was over 20 feet deep. Houses were floated off of their foundations and dashed to pieces against any obstacle they encountered. Most survivors and bodies were washed out into the Everglades where many were never found. As the rear eyewall passed over the area the flood reversed itself, breaking the dikes along the northern coast of the lake and causing a similar but smaller flood. Lake Okeechobee, locally referred to as Lake O, The Big Lake, or simply The Lake is a freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. ...
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Floodwaters persisted for several weeks, greatly impeding attempts to clean up the devastation. Burial services were quickly overwhelmed and many of the bodies were placed into mass graves. Around 75% of the fatalities were migrant farm workers, making identification of both dead and missing bodies very difficult. As a result of this the count of the dead is not very accurate. The Red Cross estimated the number of fatalities as 1,836, which was taken as the official count by the National Weather Service for many years. However in 2003 this was revised as "at least" 2,500, making the Okeechobee hurricane the second-deadliest natural disaster in United States history (after the Galveston Hurricane of 1900), at least as of now depending on Hurricane Katrina. The Anarchist Black Cross was originally called the Anarchist Red Cross. The band Redd Kross was originally called Red Cross. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
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Thousands of people were left homeless in Florida; property damage was estimated at $25 million (1928 dollars). Adjusted for wealth, inflation, and population (in other words, taking into account the vast growth of southern Florida) to the year 2003 this would be $18.7 billion. However a disaster of this kind is unlikely (but perhaps not impossible) to occur again because of the much larger Herbert Hoover Dike that now contains the waters of Lake Okeechobee.
Dissipation The hurricane's path turned northeast as it crossed Florida, taking it across northern Florida, eastern Georgia, and the Carolinas on September 19. It then moved inland and merged with a low-pressure system around Toronto on September 20. The Carolinas is a collective term used in the United States to refer to the states of North and South Carolina together. ...
September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ...
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Racial issue Although the hurricane destroyed everything in its path with impartiality, the death toll was by far highest in the economically poor areas in the low-lying ground right around the lake. Around 75% of the fatalities were from migrant farm workers, most of whom were black. Yet it was black workers who did most of the cleanup, and the few caskets available for burials were mostly used for the bodies of whites. Other bodies were either burned or buried in mass graves. Burials were segregated and the only mass gravesite to recieve a memorial contained only white bodies. The inequity has caused further racial friction that still exists today.
See also This is a list of notable tropical cyclones, subdivided by basin and reason for notability. ...
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