Hurricane Dora was the fourth named storm, second hurricane and one of six major hurricanes of the 1964 Atlantic hurricane season.
Dora made landfall on the First Coast region of Florida (more specifically, St. Johns County) just after midnight on September 10, 1964. Dora is the only hurricane to make landfall in the First Coast region from the east since record-keeping began in 1851.
Dora left two billion dollars (2005 USD) in damage, most of it...
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Hurricane Dora was the fourth named storm, second hurricane and one of six major hurricanes of the 1964 Atlantic hurricane season.
Dora made landfall on the First Coast region of Florida (more specifically, St. Johns County) just after midnight on September 10, 1964. Dora is the only hurricane to make landfall in the First Coast region from the east since record-keeping began in 1851.
Dora left two billion dollars (2005 USD) in damage, most of it in Florida and only three fatalities (1 direct, 2 indirect) due to advanced warnings. Dora was one of three hurricanes to affect Florida during the 1964 season.
On August 28, a large low pressure system emerged off the African coast and passed near Cape Verde. The low tracked west, and on August 31 an organized cloud pattern was spotted near 11°N., 41°W. The following day, it organized into a tropical depression. The depression was enveloped in a larger are of low pressure in which the pressure isobar of 1008 mb was 300 nautical miles (560 km...
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