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A Category 5 hurricane, it killed 58 people and did $ 217 million ( 1967 USD, $ USD ) in damage as it crossed the Yucatán Peninsula and then made landfall a second time near the mouth of the Rio Grande.
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* 1969 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $ 1. 5 billion in damage.
Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
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* 1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane.
A Category 4 hurricane, Hurricane Dean, caused some deaths and heavy damage to Jamaica in August 2007.
As late as August 31 it had been projected by the National Hurricane Center that the hurricane would remain at Category 3 or above on September 1, but in the event the center of Gustav made landfall as a strong Category 2 hurricane ( 1 mph below Category 3 ), and dropped to Category 1 soon after.
* 1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
* 1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
* 2004 – Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90 % of its buildings.
Katrina was a Category 3 hurricane when it struck although it had been a category 5 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.
** Hurricane Opal makes landfall at Pensacola Beach, Florida as a Category 3 hurricane with winds.
* September 2 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States landfalls in the Upper Florida Keys as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds, killing 423.
* August 25 – The Great Colonial Hurricane strikes Narragansett Bay as a possible Category 3 hurricane, killing over 46 people.
*** Hurricane Irene – Olivia, struck Nicaragua as a Category 1 hurricane, then tracked to the Eastern Pacific Ocean and became Eastern Pacific's hurricane Olivia
*** Hurricane Irene ( 1981 ), part of the 1981 Atlantic hurricane season, Category 3 hurricane ; moved across the Atlantic both ways, eventually hitting France as an extratropical storm
*** Hurricane Irene ( 1999 ), Category 2 hurricane ; passed over Cuba and struck Florida, causing $ 800 million ( 1999 USD ) in damage
*** Hurricane Irene ( 2005 ), Category 2 hurricane ; did not affect land
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* Two years later, on 27 September 1966, Category 3 Hurricane Inez caused very extensive damage mostly in Grande-Terre and north Basse-Terre Island and killed 33 people.
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