Galveston Hurricane, 1900
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The storm
A silent approach, a deadly reckoning. A cartographic record of 1900 Galveston Hurricane.
First observed east of the Windward Islands on 27 August 1900, the storm crossed the Caribbean with landfalls in the Dominican Republic and Cuba before entering the Gulf of Mexico. It intensified into a Category 4 hurricane and struck Galveston, Texas, on the evening of 8 September 1900 with sustained winds of 138 mph.
A storm surge of up to 15 feet submerged the low-lying island, destroying 3,600 homes and killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people. It remains the deadliest natural disaster in United States history, and the catastrophe prompted construction of a massive seawall and the raising of the entire city grade above sea level.
This print documents 1900 Galveston Hurricane's track, meteorological statistics, and landfall record, treating the event with the gravity it deserves, part of the Fujita Supply archive of Atlantic tropical cyclones.