Hurricane Francelia was the second-deadliest hurricane of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season behind Hurricane Camille, killing 100 people as it made landfall on Central America in Belize. The storm crossed into the eastern Pacific Ocean as a disturbance after making landfall and moving inland, eventually reforming and becoming Hurricane Glenda.
A tropical wave exited the coast of Africa on August 19. There were indications the wave possibly conta...
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Hurricane Francelia was the second-deadliest hurricane of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season behind Hurricane Camille, killing 100 people as it made landfall on Central America in Belize. The storm crossed into the eastern Pacific Ocean as a disturbance after making landfall and moving inland, eventually reforming and becoming Hurricane Glenda.
A tropical wave exited the coast of Africa on August 19. There were indications the wave possibly contained a tropical depression, but as it moved rapidly westward, it failed to organize significantly. A great increase of convection led to the formation of a tropical depression on August 29 over the southern Windward Islands in an area where tropical cyclone formation is rare. Its upper level environment became more favorable as it moved west-northwestward through the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea, and the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Francelia on August 30 while 250 miles south of Haiti.
Francelia's rapid movement continued,...
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