1935 Atlantic hurricane season
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The 1935 Atlantic hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. It officially began on June 1, 1935 and ended November 30, 1935.
The 1935 season wasn’t very active, but was extremely eventful. A Category 1 hurricane in the Caribbean killed an estimated 2,150 people in the Greater Antilles and Central America. A Category 3 storm hit central Cuba and grazed Miami. An extratropical hurricane hit Newfoundland.
By far the most notable storm of the season was the Labor Day Hurricane that made landfall in the Florida Keys on September 2. The storm was first detected as a disturbance east of the Bahamas. It strengthened very rapidly as it moved across the Straits of Florida. It made landfall on Long Key in the Upper Keys as a small but intense Category 5 major hurricane. A pressure reading of 892 millibars was recorded near where the center crossed the islands. The pressure reading makes the Labor Day Hurricane the most intense to ever strike the U.S. It ranks thrid on the list of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes based on lowest pressure, behind only Hurricane Gilbert of 1988, which did not strike the U.S. and Wilma of 2005.
After crossing the Keys, the storm proceeded up the Florida west coast, bringing flooding rains all along the way. The storm made its final landfall on the rural Apalachee coast. It moved inland and then curved back out to sea and dissipated in the north Atlantic. More than 400 people had been killed in the Keys and the damage in the area of landfall was absolute. Parts of the Florida East Coast Railway in the Upper Keys were totally destroyed. The hurricane washed an evacuation train off the tracks and many who were awaiting rescue, including World War I veterans who were living and working in the Keys as part of a government relief project, were killed.
