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By Saturday evening, Camille's forward speed had increased to about 12 mph near the center, and hurricane winds extended 50 miles in all directions (USACE 1970). On Sunday, August 17, Camille was located 250 miles south of Mobile, Alabama.
Only Hurricane Andrew was even close in wind speed. Camille is one of only three U.S. cyclones to be a Category 5 storm at landfall and it had the fastest recorded winds ashore, 190 miles per hour. Camille was the third deadliest U.S. hurricane in the 20th century. About 150 people died in Mississippi and Louisiana, and another 106 deaths occurred in Virginia from flash floods spawned by tropical rain as the storm broke up.