Carla left 43 dead in its wake and US$325 million in damages. Heavy rains followed its track as a low-pressure cell through the Midwest up to the Great Lakes. And it dumped up 17 inches (432 mm) of rain along the Texas coast. Although the central winds fell as the storm moved inland, Carla spawned 26 tornadoes in Texas and Louisiana. It struck Matagorda Island and Port O’Conner with devastating gusts, destroying thousands of buildings and inundating Sabine Pass with a surge of 10 feet (3 m). As it came ashore the maximum sustained winds were down to 145 mph (230 km/hr). Only one DC-6 was available for research as the hurricane approached the coast, finding the winds were decreasing from the peak values earlier that day of 175 mph (280 km/hr). On the 11th Carla was now being tracked by coastal radar stations. National attention was now focused on the looming storm, and local Houston reporter Dan Rather persuaded the CBS national news to extend their coverage to include his reports from the Texas shore. Hurricane Carla depicted on Galveston radar on Sept. The DC-6s and B-57 found Carla’s maximum sustained winds had reached 150 mph (240 km/hr) and were increasing as they left the storm to recover at Dallas, TX. 10th, the forward pace of Carla had reduced to an agonizingly slow crawl, but the storm winds ramped up.
HURRICANE CARLA SERIES
Another four-plane series of flights into the storm found the hurricane at the same intense level, with the aircraft recovering at Kelly AFB in Texas to be closer to the storm on its approach. The storm resumed a northwesterly heading and made a slow but steady approach toward Texas. This day they were joined by USWB’s B-57 high-altitude jet and the B-54 investigating the storm.
8th, the winds were up to 125 mph (200 km/hr). When the two DC-6 research planes penetrated Carla again on Sept. The hurricane’s center skirted around the peninsula, and once it moved away from land, Carla strengthened into a major hurricane. 6th found that Carla had become a hurricane as it moved slowly northwestward toward the Yucatan. A second round of research flights on Sept. The depression moved slowly northward and by the next day it had reached tropical-storm level and was named. Weather Bureau’s two DC-6 research aircraft flew investigatory missions into the depression, recovering in Kingston, Jamaica. 3rd, a tropical depression formed roughly 200 miles (300 km) north of the Colombian coast. Carla was the first tropical cyclone to have its entire life history recorded by research flights.Ĭarla formed from a persistent area of disturbed weather in the southern Caribbean Sea. On September 11, 1961, Hurricane Carla made landfall at Port O’Connor, Texas, bringing storm surge, torrential rains, high wind gusts and tornadoes to northern Texas and Louisiana. Winds uprooted trees, and a number of homes were damaged.Track of research flight on Sept. Waves battered the coasts of Texas and Louisiana, and almost 3 million people in those state lost power. At least 20 people were killed, according to the Hurricane Center.
Gulf Coast when it hit in 2008, causing almost $30 billion in damage, mostly in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. Ike’s storm surges raised water levels across nearly the entire U.S. Repairs to homes and infrastructure continue today. There were at least 147 deaths directly tied to storm conditions, as well as a number of indirect fatalities linked to hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning and falling trees during the cleanup effort, the center said. officials preliminarily tallied at least $50 billion in damage, though some sources cite around $75 billion. The pounding winds and storm surges of Sandy, dubbed a “superstorm” since it was extratropical by the time it made landfall, devastated the coastlines of New York and New Jersey in late October 2012, damaging at least 650,000 homes and causing about 8.5 million power outages, according to the Hurricane Center.
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