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Nonfiction: This New Orleans radar image of Hurricane Camille was taken less than 50 miles from its center on August 17, 1969 at 2200 CST.

• Date: 18 March 2013, 20:02:04
• Source: Mariners Weather Log, November 1969, pg. 248
• Author: ESSA, the forerunner of NOAA

• Hurricane Camille (nonfiction) - the most intense storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Camille was the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States. Camille caused tremendous damage in its wake, and produced a peak official storm surge of 24 feet (7.3 m). The hurricane flattened nearly everything along the coast of the U.S. state of Mississippi, and caused additional flooding and deaths inland while crossing the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. In the U.S., Camille killed more than 259 people and caused $1.42 billion in damages (equivalent to $9.7 billion in 2018).

Attribution

• By ESSA, the forerunner of NOAA - Mariners Weather Log, November 1969, pg. 248, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35005810