Hurricane Camille was the third named storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed as a tropical depression on August 14 south of Cuba; it strengthened and struck western Cuba the next day as a hurricane, killing at least five people. Camille strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico on August 16 and two days later moved ashore in Mississippi, attaining maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (282 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 900 mb (27 inHg). Camille killed at least