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During the evening hours of October 3, [3] around 23:00 UTC, Hilda made landfall on the central Louisiana coast near Calumet with a minimum pressure of 959 mbar (hPa; 28.32 inHg) and maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (165 km/h), making a Category 2 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale.
Hurricane Hilda made landfall just southeast of Burns Point, Louisiana around 5 PM CST on October 3rd as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 105 mph (90 knots) and a minimal central pressure of 959 millibars (28.32 inches).
4 cze 2003 · A severe hurricane by this time, Hilda turned gradually northward on October 1. It moved northward at an average speed of 6 m.p.h. for the next two days and crossed the central Louisiana coast about dark on October 3. Some decrease in intensity had occurred on October 2 but Hilda was still a severe hurricane when it reached the coast.
On the night of October 3, 1964, Hurricane Hilda brought high winds, heavy rain, and tornadoes to the central Louisiana coast. The storm had made steady progress out of the Gulf of Mexico, but had thankfully diminished from its peak intensity by landfall.
2 cze 2002 · Sept. 20, 1909: A hurricane struck south Louisiana with winds of 80 mph reported in Thibodaux. The storm, which reportedly tracked between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, packed a 15-foot storm...
29 paź 2024 · At 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 3, one of the strongest and deadliest tropical cyclone tornadoes ever recorded in Louisiana occurred in Larose, killing 22 people and injuring 165 others. The storm caused 38 deaths and $125 million in damage.
22 sie 2023 · Louisiana also suffered consistent battering by storms in the 1960s, as Hurricanes Ethel, Carla, Hilda, Betsy, Camille, and Donna all wreaked havoc on the state. During Hurricane Carla, for instance, multiple oil rigs moved eight to ten feet toward the coast, despite anchoring before the 1961 storm.
