1967 Atlantic hurricane season
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The 1967 Atlantic hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. It officially started June 1, 1967, and lasted until November 30, 1967.
Hurricane Beulah was the most notable Atlantic hurricane of 1967. It killed 58 and did $217 million ($1.1 billion in 2000 dollars) in damage as it crossed the Yucatan Peninsula and then made landfall a second time near the mouth of the Rio Grande. Beulah was one of the stronger storms to make landfall in the United States. The S.S. Shirley Lykes reported winds of 136 mi/h as the storm passed over the port at Brownsville, Texas.
1967 Hurricane names
The following names were used for named storms (tropical storms and hurricanes) that formed in the North Atlantic in 1967.
- Arlene
- Beulah
- Chloe
- Doria
- Edith
- Fern
- Ginger
- Heidi
- Irene (unused)
- Janice (unused)
- Kristy (unused)
- Laura (unused)
- Margo (unused)
- Nona (unused)
- Orchid (unused)
- Portia (unused)
- Rachel (unused)
- Sandra (unused)
- Terese (unused)
- Verna (unused)
- Wallis (unused)
See also
External link
- Detailed information on all storms from 1967 (ftp://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/pub/storm_archives/atlantic/prelimat/atl1967/)