Florida's Hurricane History
by Jay Barnes
Second Edition

424 pp., 139 photos, 87 maps, 3 tables
$24.95 paperback, $39.95 hardcover
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Foreword by Steve Lyons
Introduction
1. Birth of a Hurricane
2. Hurricane Effects

    Storm Intensity
    Winds
    Storm Surge
    Rainfall
    Tornadoes
    Other Factors
3. Tracking the Storms
    The Naming of Hurricanes
4. Early Florida Hurricanes, 1546-1799
5. Nineteenth-Century Storms, 1800-1899
    October 6, 1873
    September 27-28, 1874
    September 15-16, 1876
    October 3, 1877
    1878
    August 29-31, 1880
    September 9-10, 1882
    August 23-24, 1885
    1886
    1888
    1893
    1894
    1896
    1898
    1899
6. Hurricanes in the Sunshine State, 1900-1949
    September 11-14, 1903
    September 27, 1906
    October 17-18, 1906
    October 11, 1909
    October 17-18, 1910
    September 4, 1915
    July 5, 1916
    October 18, 1916
    September 28-29, 1917
    September 9-10, 1919
    October 25, 1921
    September 15, 1924
    October 20-21, 1924
    November 30-December 1, 1925
    July 27-28, 1926
    September 18-21, 1926
    August 7-8, 1928
    September 16-17, 1928
    September 28-30, 1929
    September 3-4, 1933
    September 2-4, 1935
    November 4, 1935
    July 31, 1936
    October 5-7, 1941
    October 18-19, 1944
    September 15-16, 1945
    October 7, 1946
    September 17, 1947
    October 11-12, 1947
    September 21-22, 1948
    October 5, 1948
    August 26-27, 1949
7. The Modern Era, 1950-1999
    Baker (August 30-31, 1950)
    Easy (September 3-7, 1950)
    King (October 17-18, 1950)
    Florence (September 26, 1953)
    Flossy (September 24, 1956)
    Donna (September 9-11, 1960)
    Cleo (August 27-29, 1964)
    Dora (September 9-11, 1964)
    Isbell (October 14, 1964)
    Betsy (September 7-8, 1965)
    Alma (June 8-9, 1966)
    Inez (October 3-5, 1966)
    Gladys (October 16-19, 1968)
    Agnes (June 19, 1972)
    Eloise (September 23, 1975)
    David (September 3-4, 1979)
    Frederic (September 12, 1979)
    Elena (August 31-September 2, 1985)
    Kate (November 21, 1985)
    Floyd (October 12, 1987)
    Andrew (August 23-26, 1992)
    Erin (August 1-3, 1995)
    Opal (October 4, 1995)
    Earl (September 3, 1998)
    Georges (September 25, 1998)
    Ireene (October 15-16, 1999)

8. The New Millennium, 2000-2006

    Charley (August 13, 2004)
    Frances (September 5-6, 2004)
    Ivan (September 16, 2004)
    Jeanne (September 25-27, 2004)
    Dennis (July 10, 2005)
    Katrina (August 25-29, 2005)
    Wilma (October 24, 2005)

9. The Next Great Storm
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index


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