Hurricane Elena (Eye) - Biloxi, Mississippi - September 2, 1985

A short clip from my chase footage as Hurricane Elena's textbook eye moves over Biloxi, Mississippi on the morning of September 2, 1985.

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[SevereStormsMax9]

That must of been a well organized storm to have a eye like that

[vmax135]

@SevereStormsMax9 Yep. The structure of Elena had really changed the day before, with a well-defined eye developing and persisting all the way up through landfall. The uniqueness of Elena's eye was that there was also a relatively large area that was free of low to mid clouds, allowing an incredible view of the eyewall from the ground! I've been in many, many hurricanes since Elena, and much stronger ones, but I still have never seen another eye passage like this one.

[DetroitLove4U]

1985 was a great year. I miss the 80's. I'm sure vmax135 if you can live this clip in real life over again you would. I was only 7 years old. I enjoyed that short clip of 80's music from your car.

[vmax135]

@DetroitLove4U Thanks so much, glad you enhoyed the clip. And yes, you're absolutely right, if I could re-live this storm in real life... I'd definitely be hitting the "replay" button over and over... lol.

[MedelProductions]

wow, that's alot!!!

[vmax135]

Yeah... between Hurricanes Elena, Gloria and Kate, I probably shot over 30 hours of footage during the '85 season.

[StormChaserNathan]

How amazing is this! The eye of Hurricane Elena! Just one year after I was born!

I like how excited you were while shooting this footage of it! How rare is it to get to see that!

[ColombianO4evry1]

U cant get any more center than this lol

[Bigstevoreno0655]

Where was that video shot? At the old Broadwater Beach Hotel in Biloxi? It looks like the old Broadwater Beach Hotel in the back of the property behind the main entrance up front on US Hwy 90. I was in Biloxi then and still live here today. Cool shot of the eye but it would have been great to see more footage of the calm while the eye passed over, the trees still, no wind, etc.

[ilovetogofast88]

Great quality, looks like it was filmed just yesterday

[soulfultenor]

I have a Regal also, what was that a limited ?

[BashirTheTrainMaster]

@TheTpanative I feel like the thunder storms try to avoid me because they know that I want to see them. Ever since I started to like them, they go a few miles to the east or west of where I live. Or when they do come right on top of me, they move at <100mph <:^/................I know about storm details and stuff though.

[TheTpanative]

@bashirthetrainmaster. Irene's eye won't be this perfect. Elena was a cat 3 with an extremely well developed eye. Cat 1 storms that parallel the coast tend to have ragged eyes because there isn't much strengthening occurring (eye wall cycling). I was 9 years old when Elena sat off the coast of Tampa for two days. Now that was a storm, being on the east side of the eye is much worse than the west side.

[susangoldsmith]

Your video is exactly as I remember and it brought back all of the beauty of being inside of the eye of Hurricane Elena. It took about an hour and then we were back in the shelter for many more hours while the storm tracked over Biloxi. I will never forget it. Thank you so much for the video.

[DeeJayJudas]

Pause the video at 0:06 or 0:07 is that a 1985 lamborghini?

[BashirTheTrainMaster]

Dang, I wish I can see Irene's eye from Philadelphia. (Coming)

[evilemperordude]

@sabhierules1 If able, I'd definitely go out in the eye of the storm and take some some pictures or footage. Just gotta remember to get back to safety before the other side of the eye wall hits.