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Hurricane Celia Strikes Corpus Christi Region

Category Natural Disasters & Major Accidents
Date August 3, 1970
Country United States

Hurricane Celia struck the Corpus Christi area with extreme winds, leaving severe structural damage and becoming one of the most destructive twentieth-century hurricanes to hit South Texas.

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