The Ledger ~ 300 W. Lime St., Lakeland, FL 33815 ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Cookie Policy ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Privacy Policy ~ Terms Of Service ~ Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Hurricane Donna also holds the record for retaining major hurricane status in the Atlantic Basin for the longest period of time (9 days). About a week later, Leep accompanied a WTVT news crew documenting the damage in Southwest Florida. Local Climate Info Hourly Forecasts Survivors reported incredible damage but there were no official damage estimates or a death toll. The plane was trying to land at an airport in Senegal but it crashed into the Atlantic killing 63 people. Donna strengthened again to Category 2 hurricane as it made another landfall at Wilmington, North Carolina a with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. "The public's weather IQ is much better now than it was in the '60s. A practicing Mormon, a faith that prohibits drinking alcohol, Williams even allowed his neighbors to bring in liquor if they needed it to calm the nerves, his daughter said. A woman said, “three feet of water went through my house, [and] wedged between the beds in one of my rooms was a huge tropical plant. Early on September 11th, Donna moved off of Daytona Beach and back into the Atlantic as a Category 1 hurricane.
Donna inflicted catastrophic damage to St. Martin and Anguilla resulting in 12 deaths. Graphical Forecast Ferry service was canceled for days. In the greater Miami area, sustained winds of just about hurricane force were recorded briefly with momentary gusts at the Weather Bureau Office to 82 mph and the airport tower to 97 mph. Crop damage was extensive in Florida, About one half of the grapefruit crop was lost. Power and communications facilities fell throughout central and south Florida. Topsail Beach was reported to have been 50% destroyed.
This can be attributed to three factors - timely and accurate warnings, effective dissemination by news media, and other agencies and the taking of proper precautions by the public.". But it didn't lose hurricane strength until it was in northern Maine just a few miles before the Canadian border. It produced minor wind damage in Georgia with flooding reported in Brunswick. "I remember oak trees being pushed almost horizontal," said Frank Trovillion, 85, who rode out the storm in Lakeland with his wife, Frederica, and their two young daughters. Across Florida, Donna destroyed over 2,100 homes and trailers, severely damaged over 3,900 more.
Donna made another landfall on Long Island late on September 12th at Westhampton as a Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 95 mph. The “eye” passed over Duck Key at about 2 a.m. on September 10th. Activity Planner At the time, before hurricanes Andrew in 1992 and Charley in 2004, "Donna was the most destructive hurricane ever to strike Florida and one of the most damaging ever to affect the United States," reported meteorologist Gordon Dunn of the National Weather Service in Miami in a March 1961 review of the previous hurricane season. Her father did not think the Snell family's small house across the street would survive. Miami - South Florida11691 SW 17th StreetMiami, FL 33165305-229-4522Comments? Two more tornadoes touched down in North Carolina. On that basis, Donna ranked as the 25th-costliest U.S. hurricane since 1900. To the east, Miami received over a foot of rain that triggered severe flooding.
Along the coast, tides caused beach erosion, inundated streets, and weakened foundations. [ Kevin Bouffard can be reached at kevin.bouffard@theledger.com or at 863-422-6800. Hurricane Donna: September 9-11, 1960: Hurricane Donna, the first major hurricane in Florida since the Miami storm of October 1950, was first detected in the tropical North Atlantic on September 2. The Overseas Highway was overflowed by the storm tides at a number of places, and the road completely disappeared at bridge approaches at several points. Hopefully, we will never see the likes of this type of hurricane again, especially since the population of Florida has increased dramatically over the past 60 years. Rivers / Lakes Hurricane Donna was a historic storm for many reasons. "We kids thought it was one big party," said Williams-Latham, who was 9 years old at the time.
Heaviest rains apparently fell on the extreme southern peninsula; reported totals in the Miami and south Dade County area were mostly 7 to 10 inches with a few totals near 12 inches. Donna then turned to the northeast as it ripped through northern Florida as it weakened to a tropical storm. Tropical Weather At the time this publication goes to print, it is impracticable to indicate a realistic estimate of the total storm damage. Old-timers have said Collier County hasn't seen a storm like it since. "In some places, all that remained were the concrete foundations," said Charles Stewart, 54. "I remember the first part of it (the hurricane) - the (Williams) house was shaking," Simpson said. Little did anyone know that its destructive path would go in for more than 2,000 miles. At Naples, tides pushed inland to the center of the city damaging buildings and smashing docks all along the intrusion. The damage was estimated at more than $2 million (1960) dollars.
The anemometer needle held solid against the 120 mph pin for 45 minutes.
For a detailed summary of Donna, please click here for a slide presentation prepared by Rusty Pfost, former WFO Miami Meteorologist-in-Charge. There were media reports that about 50 percent of the middle and Upper Keys residents evacuated. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Office History The eye passed over Naples and Fort Myers, then headed northeast roughly along the same path as U.S. Highway 17 through DeSoto and Hardee counties. Climate Graphs Weather Calculator, ABOUT US It was then named Donna and it had likely become a hurricane by then. In addition, a wind gust to 97 mph was reported. Roughly 174 buildings were demolished, over 1,000 received major impact, and over 4,000 suffered minor damage. "That storm was a landmark as far as I was concerned," said Leep, who noted he worked around the clock from the time Donna hit Florida until early morning Sept. 11, when the hurricane blew the roof off station's transmission facility, putting WTVT off the air for more than a day. Hurricane Charley would follow a similar path 44 years later. Preliminary estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture indicated grapefruit losses between 25 and 35% of the state's crop, and probably 5 to 10% of the state's orange and tangerine crops were lost. Al told, 439 lost their lives as a result of Donna. It hit the Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey coasts with gusts as high as 90 mph, and Atlantic City, N.J., reported tides 6 feet above normal. SKYWARN National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
It was 44 years before Polk experienced a hurricane that caused more damage. It's no longer fun," she recalls thinking. But Florida had only 4.9 million residents in 1960, the U.S. Census Bureau shows, compared with an estimated 18 million people now. It shook. Follow Northeast Polk updates on Twitter at twitter.com/NEPolkbeat. Stories of survival and sorrow abound, including, “George Brainard, a beach merchant, [who] went to his store during the calm period as the eye of Donna passed through. Observations Sorry, the location you searched for was not found. A storm surge reached 13 feet in the Keys and 11 feet over southwest Florida. Aviation Weather Scientific Research Tides in the Miami-Miami Beach ran mostly 2 to 4 feet above normal and tidal flooding in this area was not a major contributor to the over-all damage. "The second part, that's when we thought the house wasn't going to make it. Product Feedback haven’t been found.” Byron Liles of Bonita Springs watched a storm surge of about 10 to 15 feet come across Hickory Boulevard. The Everglades also suffered major ecological damage. Original content available for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons license, except where noted. The intense coverage probably did save lives, he said, because Florida had so many people new to the state who hadn't experienced a hurricane. Donna is the only hurricane to produce hurricane-force winds in Florida, the Mid-Atlantic, and New England at that time. All rights reserved. Satellite "Destruction from the combination of wind and water in this area ranged from major to almost complete.". Donna was the costliest hurricane to impact the state, at the time. Tavernier also was a little outside the area of the strongest winds.
Massachusetts received strong winds and a wind gust of 145 mph was reported at the Bue Hill Observatory south of Boston.
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