High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hurricane Gerda was a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that formed during the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the seventh named storm, fifth hurricane and third major hurricane of the 1969 season. Gerda formed on September 6 and crossed Florida as a tropical depression. Gerda later then became a tropical storm after making a hard right turn and moving northeast and reaching hurricane status on September 8. Gerda brushed past the Outer Banks of North Carolina before reaching maximum intensity of 125 mph (205 km/h) and a low barometric pressure of 979 millibars (28.9 inHg). On September 10, Gerda made landfall near Eastport, Maine, and became extratropical the following day.