Galveston Hurricane of 1900

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on the city of Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900. It had estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (217 km/h), making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

References

Online

• The 1900 Storm
• NOAA retrospective on the Galveston Storm of 1900
• Isaac Cline's report on the hurricane
• Handbook of Texas entry for the Galveston Hurricane of 1900
• Dr Isaac M. Cline: A Man of Storm and Floods — Part 2
• Raising the City of Galveston

Print

• Bixel, Patricia Bellis & Turner, Elizabeth Hayes. (2000) Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and catalyst (1st ed.). University of Texas Press ISBN 0-292-70883-1
• Larson, Erik. (1999) Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (1st ed.). New York:Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-609-60233-0