18 Facts About Hurricane Camille

Hurricane Camille was the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States, behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane.

The most intense storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, Camille originated as a tropical depression on August 14, south of Cuba, from a long-tracked tropical wave.

Hurricane Camille was absorbed by a frontal storm over the North Atlantic later that day.

Later that day, it emerged into the Atlantic Ocean east of Norfolk, and by that afternoon, as Hurricane Camille was emerging offshore it regained tropical storm status.

Subsequently, Hurricane Camille began to interact with a frontal storm, causing it to gradually transition into an extratropical cyclone as it entrained cooler air.

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Shortly after Camille formed, the National Hurricane Center advised residents on the Isle of Pines and in western Cuba to prepare for gale-force winds, heavy rains, and rising tides.

Hurricane Camille destroyed the antebellum Trinity Episcopal church in Pass Christian, taking 15 lives.

Hurricane Camille had significant ecological effects in the Gulf Coast region.

News footage from Hurricane Camille was used in the 1974 ABC made-for-TV movie titled Hurricane, which features a plotline based on the Richelieu Manor hurricane party that never happened.

Hurricane Camille was expected to quickly dissipate over land, few were prepared for the flash flooding.

Widespread area of western and central Virginia received over 8 inches of rain from Hurricane Camille's remains, leading to significant flooding across the state.

Hurricane Camille caused more than $140 million of damage in Virginia.

Hurricane Camille was considered one of the worst natural disasters in central Virginia's recorded history.

Hurricane Camille produced the sixth lowest official sea level pressure ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, at 900 millibars .

NOAA Weather Radio was expanded to coastal locations during the 1970s in the wake of Hurricane Camille based upon recommendations made by the Department of Commerce in September 1969.

Devastation of Hurricane Camille inspired the implementation of the Saffir–Simpson scale.

Also unlike Katrina, Hurricane Camille caused little damage in New Orleans, Louisiana, though Hurricane Camille itself just barely missed the city.

John Hope's daughter Hurricane Camille was involved in an advanced science and math program in high school and had carried out a required independent research project.