Hurricane Catastrophe Gladys was the first Atlantic hurricane Catastrophe to be observed Perception_active each by the Hurricane Hunters , radar imagery , and photographs from space .

The seventh named Name_conferral storm Catastrophe and fifth hurricane Catastrophe ( including one unnamed hurricane Catastrophe ) of the 1968 season , Gladys formed Coming_to_be on October 13 in the western Caribbean from a broad disturbance related to a tropical wave .

Gladys later reached Arriving peak winds of 85 mph ( 140 km/h ) just before making Causation landfall near Homosassa on the western coast of Florida on October 19 .

The next day , Gladys became Becoming extratropical and was absorbed by a cold front over Nova Scotia .

Gladys caused Causation flash Lighting flooding Catastrophe and heavily damaged Damaging the tobacco crop .

Near where Gladys made Causation landfall , winds gusted Motion to 100 mph ( 160 km/h ) and tides reached Arriving above normal .

When paralleling Self_motion just off the coast of North Carolina , Gladys was responsible for breaking Destroying the state 's worst drought since 1932 , and proved Convincing more beneficial than the minor storm Catastrophe damage Damaging there .

Later , Gladys killed Killing two people in Atlantic Canada and caused Causation coastal damage Damaging in Prince Edward Island .

Hurricane Catastrophe Gladys was the farthest tropical cyclone from the United States to be observed Perception_active by radar in the Atlantic basin since Hurricane Carla in 1961 .

Despite entering Arriving a more unfavorable environment several hundred miles east of the northern Leeward Islands , Gladys became Becoming a Category 1 hurricane Catastrophe on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane Catastrophe wind scaleon September 28 .

This subsequently allowed Preventing_or_letting Gladys to rapidly intensify Cause_change_of_strength into a Category 4 hurricane Catastrophe , reaching Arriving maximum sustained winds of on October 2 .

Hurricane Gladys was a tropical cyclone that caused Causation minor impact Influence along the East Coast of the United States , Bermuda , and Atlantic Canada .

The ninth named Name_conferral storm Catastrophe and fifth hurricane Catastrophe of the 1964 Atlantic hurricane season , Gladys developed Cause_change_of_strength from a tropical wave located east of the Lesser Antilles on September 13 .

On September 14 , Gladys abruptly intensified Cause_change_of_strength into a Category 2 hurricane Catastrophe on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane Catastrophe wind scale .

However , early on the following day , Gladys weakened Cause_change_of_strength slightly to a Category 1 hurricane Catastrophe .

Gladys began Process_start weakening Cause_change_of_strength on the following day and curved Motion_directional northward on September 19 .

By 0000 UTC on September 25 , Gladys became Becoming extratropical while centered Placing between Sable Island and Nova Scotia .

Along the East Coast of the United States , Gladys produced Creating light rainfall , gusty winds , and storm Catastrophe surge .

Before the hurricane Catastrophe moved Motion ashore , there was residual flooding Catastrophe in Tampico from earlier Hurricane Catastrophe Gladys .