At least 280 World War I veterans were killed when the Labor Day hurricane roared through the state. However, the Cuban weather service saw no evidence of the storm, and according to the NOAA, no one was sure where it was.ġ935 hurricane: An aerial view of the worker's camp at Lower Matecumbe Key in Florida. Early reports indicated that the hurricane would scrape the northern coast of Cuba on Labor Day weekend. 2 shortly before making landfall.įinding the storm had been an exercise in frustration. 1, had grown to Category 4 status 24 hours later and reached Category 5 status at 7 p.m. According to Barry Keim and Robert Muller’s 2009 book, “Hurricanes of the Gulf of Mexico,” the Labor Day storm, which was a Category 1 cyclone at 7 a.m. That prevented forecasters from anticipating the storm’s rapid intensification. Several reports at the time indicated estimated gusts were exceeding 200 mph.įorecasting storms was a primitive exercise in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates that the Labor Day hurricane, which made landfall at Matecumbe and Long keys near the village of Islamorada as a Category 5 storm, had maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. 1935 hurricane: An aerial view of trains that were tossed off the track from the wind and storm surge caused by the Labor Day Hurricane.
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