What is Hurricane Hazel?
{{Infobox Hurricane | name=Hurricane Hazel | Type=hurricane | Year=1954 | Basin=Atl | Formed=October 5, 1954 | Dissipated=October 17, 1954 | 1-min winds=130 | Pressurepre=≤ | Pressure=937 | Damages=381 | Inflated=2 | Fatalities=600 - 1,200 direct | Areas=[[Grenada]], [[Haiti]], [[Bahamas]], [[South Carolina]], [[North Carolina]], [[Virginia]], [[West Virginia]], [[Maryland]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[Toronto]] and southern and eastern [[Ontario]] | Hurricane season=[[1954 Atlantic hurricane season]] | Image location=Hazel 1954 track.png | Image name=Track map of Hurricane Hazel }} '''Hurricane Hazel''' was the worst [[hurricane]] of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season and one of the worst hurricanes of the [[20th century]]. Hazel killed as many as 1,000 people in [[Haiti]] before striking the [[United States]] just south of [[Wilmington, North Carolina|Wilmington]], [[North Carolina]] as a [[Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale|Category 4 hurricane]]. 19 people were killed in North Carolina, and 81 people were killed when it hit [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]. It is the strongest hurricane ever recorded to strike so far inland. {{Retired Atlantic hurricanes}} {{Toronto}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hazel}} [[Category:Retired tropical cyclone names]] [[Category:Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes]] [[Category:Hurricanes in the United States]] [[Category:1954 in the United States]] [[Category:History of Grenada]] [[Category:20th century in Haiti]] [[Category:20th century in the Bahamas]] [[Category:20th century in South Carolina]] [[Category:1950s in North Carolina]] [[Category:20th century in Virginia]] [[Category:20th century in West Virginia]] [[Category:20th century in Maryland]] [[Category:1950s in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:1950s in New York (state)]] [[Category:1954 in Canada]] [[Category:October events]] [[Category:1950s in weather]] {{hurricane-stub}}