Date in year · 1961 · The 1960s
On September 11, 1961, hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state. The year's #1 song was "Tossin' and Turnin'" by Bobby Lewis. Jane Leeves, John Podhoretz, Don Mattingly would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · September 11, 1961
Hurricane Carla was the most intense tropical cyclone to make landfall in Texas in the 20th century. Striking the middle Texas coast in September 1961 as a Category 4 hurricane, Carla was the second most intense hurricane on record in Texas, only behind the 1886 Indianola hurricane. The third named storm of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Carla developed from an area of squally weather in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on September 3.
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1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.
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Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1961
Hurricane Carla was the most intense tropical cyclone to make landfall in Texas in the 20th century. Striking the middle Texas coast in September 1961 as a Category 4 hurricane, Carla was the second most intense hurricane on record in Texas, only behind the 1886 Indianola hurricane. The third named storm of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Carla developed from an area of squally weather in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on September 3.
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