10 Facts About Hurricane Roxanne

Hurricane Roxanne was a rare and erratic tropical cyclone that caused extensive flooding in Mexico, due to its unusual movement.

The seventeenth storm, tenth hurricane, and the fifth and final major hurricane of the very active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, Roxanne developed in the southwestern Caribbean Sea from an area of low pressure on October 7.

Shortly thereafter, Hurricane Roxanne made landfall near Cozumel, Mexico at its peak intensity, which caused severe damage.

Thereafter, Hurricane Roxanne began to meander erratically in the Gulf of Mexico; the storm turned abruptly southeastward, and remained nearly stationary offshore of the Yucatan Peninsula.

An upper-level trough, left behind after Hurricane Roxanne Opal exited the region, interacted with the tropical wave and the circulation, which gradually became better organized; the origins were complex, but common for disturbances over the western Caribbean.

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Hurricane Roxanne was initially affected by winds from the north, which dislocated the circulation from the convection.

Shortly after Roxanne reached peak intensity, the hurricane made landfall just north of Tulum, a small town near Cozumel, Mexico.

When Roxanne was looping off the northwest Yucatan peninsula, a hurricane warning was issued from Progreso to Tampico.

Hurricane Roxanne caused 29 deaths, with six of them coming from the sinking of the pipelay derrick barge DLB 269 with 245 people on board.

Hurricane Roxanne caused widespread flooding and agriculture damage in eastern Mexico, notably in Campeche, Tabasco, Veracruz.