Their commercial and critical acclaim had been demonstrated Protest during the Could n't Stand the Weather Tour in 1984 , when they had played before a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall .

Ahead of the storm Catastrophe , the United States Weather Bureau issued Creating widespread Dispersal hurricane warnings Warning , spurring Influence evacuations Escaping , flight cancelations , and beach closures .

In the aftermath , the Weather Bureau was criticized Judgment_communication for the lack of warning Warning ; the bureau 's chief , Stephen Lichtblau , maintained that it was fortunate that any warnings Warning were issued Creating , and those that were had been delivered Sending in a timely manner .

Initially the hurricane Catastrophe posed Influence a threat to the area around Corpus Christi , Texas , and the local United States Weather Bureau forecaster advised Convincing people to stay away from the Texas coastline during the busy Labor Day Weekend .

Advisories also had to be cleared Removing through the Weather Bureau office in New Orleans , resulting in Causation late releases .

Weather reports Reporting from surrounding Surrounding communities as well as the existence Presence of the dust storm Catastrophe in Bozeman Pass led Causation investigators to believe that the aircraft likely encountered severe to extreme turbulence which may have initiated Process_start the flutter Motion .

Diane weakened Cause_change_of_strength further after moving Motion inland , at which point the United States Weather Bureau noted Know a decreased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale threat of further destruction Destroying .

Carol developed Coming_to_be on August 28 off the west coast of Africa , although the Weather Bureau did not initiate Process_start advisories until five days later .

However , due to warnings Warning by the Weather Bureau , the Mobile Chamber of Commerce estimated Statement that several millions of dollars in damage Damaging was evaded Escaping .

Weather officials described the flooding Catastrophe as the worst in the area in a century .

The Atlantic hurricane reanalysis in 2013 concluded Coming_to_believe that the storm Catastrophe developed Coming_to_be into a tropical depression Catastrophe on September 9 off the coast of West Africa , but the United States Weather Bureau was unaware that a tropical cyclone Catastrophe existed until September 16 ; by then , it was already a well-developed hurricane Catastrophe and had tracked Self_motion westward toward the Sargasso Sea .

After the season , the United States Weather Bureau retired Removing the name Betsy from their rotating lists of tropical cyclone names .