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- The 1935 Florida Keys Hurricane was the strongest hurricane to hit
- the United States coastline this century.
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- The 1935 Storm became a tropical storm on August 29 just to the
- north of Hispaniola. It tracked westward during the next four days and
- reached hurricane status north of Cuba on September 1. It then
- intensified very rapidly and turned more northward toward the Florida
- Keys.
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- The storm struck with great ferocity, especially in the middle Keys. The
- eye of the hurricane passed over the middle Keys on September 3.
- Wind gusts were estimated at an incredible 150 to 200 miles per
- hour on some of the Keys. Many World War I veterans lost their lives
- trying to evacuate as their railroad cars were swept off their tracks by
- the storm surge. The death toll exceeded 400.
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- The Florida Keys hurricane was a category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson
- Scale, one of two hurricanes this century to reach the U.S. at that
- intensity. The other was Hurricane Camille in 1969.
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- After passing the Keys, the hurricane weakened and made landfall
- north of Cedar Key, Florida late on September 4.
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- The storm weakened to tropical storm strength as it reached Georgia.
- It became a hurricane again after if passed back out over the Atlantic
- Ocean near Norfolk, Virginia.
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