Hurricane Danny was a Category 1 hurricane that formed during mid August of the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season. The fourth named storm and the third hurricane of the 1985 season, Danny was one of four hurricanes to make landfall in the northern U.S. Gulf coast. Danny formed on August 12 and moved northward where it reached a peak intensity of 80 mph and low barometric pressure of 987 millibars before making landfall near Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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Hurricane Danny was a Category 1 hurricane that formed during mid August of the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season. The fourth named storm and the third hurricane of the 1985 season, Danny was one of four hurricanes to make landfall in the northern U.S. Gulf coast. Danny formed on August 12 and moved northward where it reached a peak intensity of 80 mph and low barometric pressure of 987 millibars before making landfall near Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Danny produced an outbreak of 39-47 tornadoes and flash flooding across the United States Gulf Coast and Southeastern United States causing $100 million dollars (1985 USD) and three fatalies, two of them directly related to the storm.
A tropical wave moved off the west coast of Africa on July 30 and continued across the Atlantic and though the Leeward Islands with no sign of development. On August 12, data from hurricane hunter flights indicated that a tropical depression formed near the Cayman Islands. The tropical depression then crossed the...
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