Hurricane Audrey hit the southwestern coast of Louisiana on June 27, 1957, with a fury that shocked the nation. This Category 4 hurricane brought winds of 145 mph and a deadly storm surge that ...

The US started naming storms with women's names starting in 1953. Hurricane Audrey, the first storm of the 1957 hurricane season was the deadliest of the 1950s. It originated in the Gulf of Mexico ...

and Hurricane Audrey ( 1957) because they were much deadlier than the typical storm. They found that for highly damaging storms, the more feminine the storm's name is, the more people it killed.