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Hurricane Celia was the third named tropical cyclone, the second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 1970 Atlantic hurricane season. Celia began as a tropical wave which formed off the eastern coast of Africa on July 23. The wave reached the eastern Caribbean Sea on July 28 and began to become more organized. The low was declared a tropical depression a few days later while slowly developing. The depression crossed over western Cuba late on July 31, causing five fatalities. Shortly after emerging into the Gulf of Mexico, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Celia. With warm sea surface temperatures, Celia rapidly intensified into a major hurricane on the August 1.

The intensification was temporary and Celia weakened to a minimal hurricane the next morning. As Celia moved towards the Texas coastline, it began to rapidly intensify again. The storm reached its peak as it made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, as a strong Category Three hurricane late on August 3. The storm caused 15 fatalities in Texas before dissipating inland the next day. Damages in Texas totaled to $453 million (1970 USD; $2.6 "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Celia" Categories: 1970 Atlantic hurricane season | Category 3 Atlantic hurricanes | Retired Atlantic hurricanes | Hurricanes in Cuba | Texas hurricanes | Atlantic hurricanes in Mexico | History of Corpus Christi, Texas | 1970 meteorology | 1970 in the United States

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