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Jui/r. 1916.
MONTHLY WEATHER PtJi VlJtLVV,
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At 8 p. in.. with falling pressure along the Gulf const, northeast, storm warnings were ordered along the Gtdf coast, from tlie Louisiana coast to Pensacola, Fla., aud cautionary advices sent elsewhere. The warning stated that the storm was then probably near the middle Gulf, moving northwestward and. if so. northerly winds and gales were probable Wednesday (July 5). The caution of the afternoon to shipping to remain in port was repeated. On the morning of -be 5iii ihe barometer on the middle Gulf coast ranged from 29.56 to 29.GO inches, with northeast winds that at Pensacola had reached a velocity of 48 miles an hour, indicating that, the storm center had moved across the Gulf with unusual rapidity and was near to and approaching the middle Gulf coast, and apparently somewhere between Mobile Bay and the mouth of the Mississippi River. Hurricane warnings were therefore ordered
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ria. 1.—Track of the Middle Gulf storm of July 1-10.1910-
at 9 a. m., from Mobile westward over the Louisiana coast and northeast, storm warnings extended eastward to Car-rabelle, Pla. Frequent, special observations were obtained during the 5th but no changes in the warnings appeared to be necessary. The storm passed inland during the afternoon with a barometer reading of 2S.92 inches at Mobile at 4:45 p. m. The maximum wind velocity was about 106 miles an hour, the highest velocity ever reported at t-hat station. At Pensacola the lowest barometer reading was 29.31 inches at. 2:30 p. m. and the maximum wind velocity was 104 miles an hour from the southeast- r,t 2:.‘-’2 p. m.. also the highest velocity ever reported at- that station. At 8 p. m. the barometer at Mobile read 29.05 inches. On the morning of the 6th the storm was central over southern Mississippi with a barometer reading at Meridian of 29.48 inches at 5 a. m. After the mom-95306—16-------------------2
ins of the 6th the storm hovered over Mississippi and Alabama for three days with steadily decreasing intensity, but with torrential rains that caused great floods in the rivers of the East Gulf States and enormous damage to growing crops. By the morning of the 10th. the storm center in its vagaries had moved into Tennessee (Nashville, 29.70 inches) and by the evening of the 10th was over extreme eastern Tennessee (Chattanooga, 29.80 inches). _ The damage done by the storm was of the character incident to such occurrences. Unfortunately sev-
JULY 5, 1916.
JULY 6, 1916.
Fig. 2.—Barograms for a portion of the Middle Gulf storm of July 1-10.1916, &t Pensacola* xia., Meridian, Miss., ana Mobile, Ala. (sea-ievcl records),
oral lives were lost along the middle Gulf coast, mainly persons in small boats. Marine casualties were of a minor character but the aggregate losses amounted to several millions of dollars, distributed principally between the cities of Pensacola and Mobile and tho agricultural sections of southeastern Mississippi and southwestern Alabama. Tho high tides were responsible for the major portion of the coast damage. At Mobile the tide was somewhat more than 2 feet above the previous highest tide of 9.S7 feet above mean tide in September, 1906, and the entire business district was inundated. At Pensacola