High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hurricane Caroline was the third named storm, second hurricane and first major hurricane of the 1975 Atlantic hurricane season. Caroline formed on August 24, 1975 as a tropical depression which crossed Cuba and Gulf of Mexico and became a tropical storm on August 29. Caroline then rapidly became a Category 3 hurricane with its winds peaking at 115 mph (185 km/h) before making landfall 100 miles (160 km) south of Brownsville, Texas, before rapidly weakening and dissipated on September 1.