Hurricane Carla

Type: Event

As of November 2026, Hurricane Carla has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Today I Found Out (Jan 2026). Mentioned as an event that boosted WD-40 sales due to its utility in disaster recovery.

Hurricane Carla was the most intense tropical cyclone to make landfall in Texas in the 20th century. The third named storm of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Carla developed from an area of squally weather in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on September 3. As a tropical depression, it strengthened while heading northwest. The system was upgraded to a tropical storm on September 5 and reached hurricane intensity on September 6. On September 7, Carla entered the Gulf of Mexico, passing northeas