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No wind measurements are available from the core of this small, but vicious hurricane. "It continued into the Atlantic, becoming extratropical on the 7th and last being detected on the 10th. It hooked around the southern tip of Florida and back toward Georgia and the Carolinas. Damage to property was estimated at $50,000,000 in Puerto Rico and $25,000,000 in Florida." Florida Keys Labor Day Hurricane 1935 An additional 312 people died in Puerto Rico, and 18 more were reported dead in the Bahamas. 1,836 people died in Florida, mainly due to the lake surge. The worst tragedy occurred at inland Lake Okeechobee in Florida, where the hurricane caused a lake surge of 6 to 9 ft that inundated the surrounding area. "It then turned west-northwestward, scoring a direct hit on Puerto Rico on the 13th (the feast of San Felipe) as a Category 4 hurricane. The NHC's records say this one "moved westward through the Leeward Islands on the 12th." This 1928 hurricane caused the Lake Okeechobee banks to overflow. Hundreds of people in Moore Haven alone were killed by this surge, which left behind floodwaters in the town for weeks afterward." San Felipe-Okeechobee Hurricane 1928 The town of Moore Haven on the south side of Lake Okeechobee was completely flooded by lake surge from the hurricane. Every building in the downtown district of Miami was damaged or destroyed. They were suddenly trapped and exposed to the eastern half of the hurricane shortly thereafter. Most residents, having not experienced a hurricane, believed that the storm had passed during the lull. Many casualties resulted as people ventured outdoors during the half-hour lull in the storm as the eye passed overhead.

A storm surge of nearly 15 feet was reported in Coconut Grove. This cyclone produced the highest sustained winds ever recorded in the United States at the time, and the barometric pressure fell to 27.61 inches as the eye passed over Miami. The Category 4 hurricane's eye moved directly over Miami Beach and downtown Miami during the morning hours of the 18th.

As a result, hurricane warnings were not issued until midnight on September 18th, which gave the booming population of South Florida little notice of the impending disaster. Little in the way of meteorological information on the approaching hurricane was available to the Weather Bureau in Miami. Winds were reported to be nearly 150 mph as the hurricane passed over the Turks Islands on the 16th and through the Bahamas on the 17th.

"The system moved quickly westward and intensified to hurricane strength as it moved to the north of Puerto Rico on the 15th. Here are some of the most notable hurricanes to hit Florida in the past century, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC):Īll images are courtesy Great Miami Hurricane 1926Īccording to the National Hurricane Center's historical report, the "Great Miami" Hurricane formed as a tropical wave located 1,000 miles east of the Lesser Antilles on Sept.