5/6/2023 0 Comments 1935 labor day hurricane track![]() ![]() As the hurricane approached, an evacuation train didn’t leave Miami until 4:25 pm and didn’t reach Islamorada, in the Middle Keys, until the full force of the storm surge and eyewall winds struck around 8:20 that evening. Highway 1, called the Overseas Highway, was under construction by World War I veterans employed in federal work camps in the Florida Keys. Undergoing explosive development over the next 24 hours, the storm went from a Category 1 to a Category 5 storm in just 24 hours.īack in 1935, an extension to U.S. Moving at a relatively slow westward pace of 10 mph, the storm reached hurricane strength just south of Andros Island in the Bahamas on September 1. The storm that would become the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was first noted just north of the Turks and Caicos Islands near the end of August. The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which struck the Florida Keys on September 2, still holds the world record for the lowest pressure ever recorded at landfall for any tropical cyclone or hurricane, at 892 mb or 26.35 inHg. Even after 85 years of hurricane seasons, though, there is still one storm that is unrivaled for its strength at landfall. Updated: Jan 18th 2022 The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935įrom Category 5 Hurricanes Dorian, Michael, Maria, and Irma, the past few years have seen more than a few of these very strong tropical cyclones ravage coastal areas around the Atlantic basin. ![]()
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