Hurricane Dora
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- This article is about the Atlantic hurricane of 1964; for other storms of the same name, see Hurricane Dora (disambiguation).
Template:Infobox hurricane Hurricane Dora was the first and, to date, the only hurricane to make landfall on the First Coast region of Florida; more specifically, the metropolitan area of Jacksonville. Before it came ashore at St. Johns County just after midnight on September 10, 1964, no hurricane had made landfall there since record-keeping began in 1851.
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Storm history
Template:Storm path Dora originated as a low pressure area near Cape Verde on August 28. On September 2, the storm had quickly strengthened into a hurricane. In the week before landfall, movement slowed and the winds and seas gained intensity. On the night of September 9, the eye passed over St. Augustine, with winds reported at 110 miles per hour at landfall, making the storm a very strong Category 2.
The storm cut a path across the northern part of the state before finally making a track to the northeast on September 12. As it moved into southwestern Georgia, Dora was downgraded to a tropical storm before moving back over Georgia and South Carolina. The system circulated into the Atlantic Ocean again, but by this time it was disorganized and dissipated completely soon after.
Impact
Power supply for Jacksonville and surrounding towns was lost; it was only restored after six days of outages.
Dora caused only one death, but did about $280 million ($1.5 billion in 2000 dollars) in damage, primarily due to extensive inland flooding.
Retirement
Template:Seealso The name Dora was retired from the Atlantic hurricane lists and was replaced with Dolly for the 1968 season.