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Hurricane One
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The first known storm of the season—which would also become the strongest—is listed in the hurricane database as having formed on August 8 in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, just offshore the west coast of the Florida peninsula, although it is possible the hurricane was related to a heavy gale encountered by a ship on August 5 during its voyage from Havana. Cuba to New York City. The cyclone drifted souhwest for three days, gradually intensifying to attain a strength corresponding to Category 3 major hurricane status on the modern-day Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Beginning on August 11, the hurricane slowly curved to the north, then gained an easterly component to its movement, and was at its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (210 km/h) about midday.^1 ^
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Category 4 hurricane (SSHS)
Duration August 8 - August 16 Intensity 130 mph(215 km/h)(l-min), 950 mbar (hPa)
Coming ashore at an "oblique" angle, the storm crossed the coast at modem Burrwood,
Louisiana, and traversed the Mississippi River Delta. The storm made landfall in Mississippi
between Biloxi and Pascagoula early on August 12. The hurricane quickly weakened as it continued inland and turned toward the east, likely deteriorating below tropical storm status while over southern Georgia, although because the hurricane database does not utilize tropical depression status for storms before 1871, it is listed as maintaining tropical storm intensity as it crossed the southeastern U.S.; by August 14. it had remerged into the western Atlantic Ocean. Ship reports from the vicinity of the system indicate it regained some strength once over open waters, although it only persisted a couple more days before it disappeared on recordsJ’^ fJfjC (^>	^
Storm conditions battered New Orleans. Louisiana, on August II, with winds of up to roughly 50 mph (80 km/h) and heavy rainfall.^ The hurricane wrought a great deal of damage throughout southeastern Louisiana. At least 35 to 40 people drowned when a low-lying community at the eastern end of Lake Pontchartrain was inundated with flood waters up to a depth of 12 feet (3.7 m), a result of intense and persistent winds
generating a significant storm surge It was reported that in the town "there is hardly a house remaining".1^ A railroad wharf near the lake was largely destroyed, and another settlement called Milneburg was flooded: residents were rescued by boat. In Plaquemines Parish, where vast areas of land were left underwater, the hurricane was the most severe since 1812. At least 20 additional people drowned, although it was suspected that since up to 200 fishermen along the Mississippi River would have had extreme difficulty finding shelter amid the rapidly rising waters, the death toll was probably substantially higher. The storm flattened sugarcane fields across the parish: "the knowing ones will say that two thousand hogshead of sugar less will be made here", according to a post-storm account. Monetary losses from the destruction totaled over $250,000.^ Rice and com crops were also mined, and 300 head of cattle drowned in the flood on Cat Island.^
At La Balize (now known as Pilottown), ominous weather conditions on the night of August 9 preceded the onset of gathering clouds and "a violent storm", characterized by building seas and torrents of rain and wind such that water was driven under roof shingles, "leaving not a dry spot to lay our heads" Sea water swamped the town overnight on August 10. and it was not until around noon when the storm let up and waters receded with a shift in winds. Property damage was widespread and many trees were blown down. The hurricane beached several watercraft, destroyed wharves, and inflicted losses that "can hardly by estimated", but were initially judged at up to S10,000. No lives were lost in Balize Further down the storm's track. Biloxi. Mississippi, experienced a gale beginning on the morning of August 11 and lasting until early the next morning Tides ran 10 ft (3.0 m) above average at Biloxi, and at Mobile. Alabama, residents also found wind-driven rain seeping "through cracks and crevices not known before to oJtsCWn dwellings "always water-proof to ordinary showers"/7^ Waters rose enough to cause minor inundations, but not nearly at the saii)e severity as uTostJhat occurred in other areas. Heavy storm conditions extended as far east as Pensacola, Florida, where 3.03 in (77 mm) rain fell. accompanie3T7y4iaiuent thunder and lightning^7) The overall death toll from the hurricane was at least 47.^
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Over a week after the dissipation of the first system, another tropical storm formed to the east of Florida on August 23. The storm tracked generally northeastw ard, roughly paralleling the East Coast of the United States as it peaked with sustained w inds of 105 mph (169 km/h) on August 25. These winds would have made it a Category 2 hurricane on the Safftr-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Continuing in the same general direction, the hurricane began to weaken shortly after attaining peak intensity, and the last official data point for the storm places it east of New England on August 26.'^ The hurricane was undetected until modern-day reanalysis
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