Hurricane Cindy
Hurricane Cindy (2005)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchHurricane Cindy was a tropical cyclone that briefly reached minimal hurricane strength in the Gulf of Mexico during July in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and made landfall in Louisiana. It was the third named storm and first hurricane of the season. Cindy was originally thought to have been a tropical storm at peak strength, but was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane in the post-storm analysis.
Hurricane Cindy initially formed on July 3 just east of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Caribbean Sea. The depression soon made landfall on the peninsula and weakened before reemerging in the Gulf of Mexico on July 4. The storm strengthened as it moved north becoming a hurricane just before making landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana, on July 5. The storm weakened as it moved overland and became extratropical on July 7.
Hurricane Cindy was responsible for 3 deaths in the United States and brought heavy rains to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Maryland. An unusually strong F2 tornado was spawned from Cindy's remnants and caused severe damage in Hampton, Georgia. Cindy also caused flooding and a severe blackout in New Orleans, Louisiana, which encouraged the population to evacuate when Hurricane Katrina approached the city the next month.
- The NHC's Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Cindy.
- The NHC's archive on Hurricane Cindy.
- The HPC's archive on Hurricane Cindy.
- USA Today: Tropical Storm Cindy floods streets along Gulf Coast
- Photos of Cindy on al.com
- Times-Picayune article the following day via ohsep.louisiana.gov
- NASA article on Cindy's rainfall
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