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1967 Atlantic hurricane season was the first year in which the
National Hurricane Center (NHC) was in operation. The
season began on June 1, which was the date when the NHC activated radar stations across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The season ended on November 30, which ended the conventional delimitation of the time period when most
tropical cyclones form in the
Atlantic basin. The season was near average, with eight storms forming.
Hurricane Beulah was the most notable Atlantic hurricane of 1967. A
Category 5 hurricane, it killed 58 people and did $217 million (1967 USD, $ USD) in damage as it crossed the
Yucatán Peninsula and then made landfall a second time near the mouth of the
Rio Grande.
Storms
Hurricane Arlene
After a quiet start to the season, the
Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) became very active, with four separate areas of convection exiting the coast of Africa. The first, accompanied with a tropical wave, became a tropical depression on August 28 (the second became Beulah and the fourth became Chloe). The tropical depression moved west-northward, reaching tropical storm strength on August 30. Arlene slowly strengthened over the following days, eventually reaching hurricane intensity on September 3 over the north Atlantic. The next day, it weakened to a tropical...
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