What was Hurricane Cindy?
Q: What was Hurricane Cindy?
A: Hurricane Cindy was a tropical cyclone that reached minimal hurricane strength for a very short time in the Gulf of Mexico during July and made landfall in Louisiana. It was the third named storm and first hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
Q: Where did Hurricane Cindy form?
A: Hurricane Cindy formed on July 3 just east of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Caribbean Sea.
Q: When did it make landfall?
A: The storm soon made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula and weakened before entering in the Gulf of Mexico on July 4, then became a hurricane just before making landfall on southern Louisiana on July 5.
Q: How many deaths were caused by Hurricane Cindy?
A: Hurricane Cindy was responsible for a total of 3 deaths in the United States.
Q: What other effects did it have?
A: In addition to causing fatalities, Hurricane Cindy brought heavy rains to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Maryland, caused flooding and a very big blackout in New Orleans, Louisiana, as well as an unusually strong F2 tornado which caused damage in Hampton, Georgia.
Q: How did this event influence people's reactions when Katrina struck later that year?
A: The flooding and blackout caused by Hurricane Cindy encouraged people to evacuate when Katrina destroyed New Orleans later that month.
