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Hurricane Betsy was the first hurricane to have damages exceeding US$1 billion. In 1960, four rotating lists of names were developed to avoid having to create new lists each year, while the practice of retiring any particularly damaging storm names for 10 years continued, with 11 names deemed significant enough to be retired during the decade.
Hurricane Bob. Hurricane Bob was one of the costliest hurricanes in New England history. The second named storm and first hurricane of the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season, Bob developed from an area of low pressure near The Bahamas on August 16. The depression steadily intensified, and became Tropical Storm Bob late on August 16.
Hurricane Bob was the first of six hurricanes to strike the United States during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season. The second tropical storm and first hurricane of the year, Bob developed from a tropical wave on July 21 in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Bob began moving east, making landfall southwestern Florida as a weak tropical storm.
Saffir–Simpson scale, 1-minute maximum sustained winds. The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale ( SSHWS) classifies hurricanes —which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms —into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.
Hurricane Bob (1979) Hurricane Bob was the first Atlantic tropical cyclone to be officially designated using a masculine name after the discontinuation of Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet names. [1] Bob brought moderate damage to portions of the United States Gulf Coast and areas farther inland in July 1979.
Rubin Carter. Rubin " Hurricane " Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer. After a faulty murder conviction in 1967, he became a cause célèbre for miscarriage of justice. His sentence was eventually overturned, and he moved to Canada where he would fight for innocent people who had been wrongly ...
Hurricane Gilbert was the second most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Atlantic basin in terms of barometric pressure, only behind Hurricane Wilma in 2005.An extremely powerful tropical cyclone that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season, Gilbert peaked as a Category 5 hurricane that brought widespread destruction to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, and is tied with ...
September 4. Six days after Hurricane Katrina devastates the area, New Orleans police officers reportedly receive a call from an unidentified person reporting gunfire at Danziger Bridge. Several NOPD officers arrive at the scene and open fire, killing Ronald Madison and James Brissette and seriously wounding four others.