What is Hurricane Cindy (2005)?
{{Infobox Hurricane | Name=Hurricane Cindy | Type=hurricane | Year=2005 | Basin=Atl | Image location=Hurricane_Cindy_2005-07-05.jpg | Image name=Hurricane Cindy on July 6, 2005. | Formed=July 3, 2005 | Dissipated=July 7, 2005 | 1-min winds=65 | Pressure=991 | Damages=320 | Inflated=2 | Fatalities=1 direct, 2 indirect | Areas=[[Yucatán Peninsula]], [[North Carolina]], [[South Carolina]], [[Alabama]], [[Mississippi]], [[Louisiana]] | Hurricane season=[[2005 Atlantic hurricane season]] }} '''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]]. Cindy was originally thought to have been a strong tropical storm at its strongest strength, but was upgraded to a [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale|Category 1]] hurricane in the post-storm analysis. Hurricane Cindy formed on July 3 just east of the [[Yucatán Peninsula]] in the [[Caribbean Sea]]. The depression soon made landfall on the peninsula and weakened before entering in the [[Gulf of Mexico]] on July 4. The storm restrengthened as it moved north becoming a hurricane just before making landfall on southern [[Louisiana]] on July 5. The storm weakened as it moved inland and became [[extratropical cyclone|extratropical]] on July 7. Cindy was responsible for a total of 3 deaths in the [[United States]] and`for bringing heavy rains to [[Louisiana]], [[Mississippi]], [[Alabama]] and [[Maryland]]. An unusually strong [[Fujita scale|F2]] [[tornado]] formed from Cindy's remnants and caused a lot of damage in [[Hampton, Georgia]]. Cindy also caused flooding and a very big blackout in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], which encouraged the people to evacuate when [[Hurricane Katrina]] destroyed the city in the next month. ==Storm history== {{storm path|Cindy 2005 track.png|left|200px}} On June 24 a strong [[tropical cyclone|tropical wave]] formed off the [[Africa]]n c