Hurricane opal7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The storm left at least $2.1 billion in damage in Florida alone. In Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Bay counties, nearly 300 homes were destroyed and 1,000 others suffered major damage. The majority of structures were swept away or experienced some degree of damage, particularly from Wakulla County westward. In Florida, high winds and storm surge left extensive damage in the panhandle. Nineteen people were killed in the country. The storm left hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to agriculture in Campeche alone. In Mexico, a number of rivers overflowed in the states of Campeche and Tabasco, forcing more than 42,000 people to evacuate. A total of 31 deaths occurred in Guatemala. In the former, flooding and landslides left about 34,000 people homeless and damage to infrastructure and agriculture. The precursor and initial stages of Opal brought heavy rainfall and flooding to Guatemala and Mexico. The remnants of Opal moved northward and dissipated over Ontario the following day. The storm quickly unraveled as it moved inland and became extratropical on October 5. However, the cyclone abruptly weakened to a low-end Category 3 hurricane prior to making landfall on the Florida Panhandle near Pensacola later that day. With a minimum pressure of 916 mbar (hPa), Hurricane Opal was the most intense category 4 Atlantic hurricane on record. By October 4, Opal was an intense 150 mph (240 km/h), Category 4 hurricane. The cyclone turned northeastward and strengthened significantly. Opal intensified into a hurricane on October 2 after entering the Gulf of Mexico. The depression crossed the Yucatán Peninsula and intensified into a tropical storm on September 30. The fifteenth named storm, ninth hurricane and strongest tropical cyclone of the unusually active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, Opal developed from the interaction of a tropical wave and a low-pressure area near the Yucatán Peninsula on September 27 as Tropical Depression Seventeen. Hurricane Opal was a large and powerful Category 4 hurricane that caused severe and extensive damage along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States in October 1995. Part of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season Gulf Coast (particularly the Florida Panhandle) ![]()
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