The 1945 Hurricane's Wrath


1945 - A tornado destroys 366 aircraft at Richmond Naval Air Station in the US state of Florida. Known as the "Hurricane of 1945, Homestead" formed in the Leeward Islands on September 12, causing extensive damage in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, before weakening and dissipating off Newfoundland on September 20. 

When it struck the air base on September 15 366 airplanes, 25 hot air balloons, and 150 cars were completely destroyed by the hurricane, which was blown at 240 km/h 5,372 homes were completely destroyed, and three-quarters of the buildings in Grand Turk Island were submerged in water along the Cape Fear River, after 380 mm of rain fell. 

The loss of life from the storm was only 26, but property damage was estimated at $60 million in contemporary values. In fact, when the cyclone first formed on the Caribbean island of Barbuda on September 12, the wind speed was 380 kmph. It was Had it continued at the same pace, the damage would have been many times greater.