 After passing the Swan Islands , Janet made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula between Corozal Town , British Honduras , and Chetumal , Mexico , at 1700 UTC on September 28 . At the time , it had winds of 175 mph ( 280 km / h ) . Hurricane force winds were reported for two hours preceding the hurricane 's landfall , with numerous pressure readings below 948 mbar ( hPa ; 28 @.@ 00 inHg ) . Roads and crops on the peninsula sustained heavy damage due to Janet . In Xcalak , Quintana Roo , the strong winds from Janet flattened the port 's infrastructure , and only one house remained intact after the storm 's passage . 97 people were killed in Xcalak , constituting more than a third of the port 's population . Chetumal , Mexico was devastated , with only four buildings left standing . Storm surge pushed water to a depth of 6 @.@ 5 feet ( 2 m ) , 1600 ft ( 490 m ) inland , despite the peninsula protecting the city from the open ocean . The death toll in Chetumal remains uncertain ; 120 bodies were recovered in the city but it is unknown how many were ever found . An additional 10 @,@ 000 people in the city were left homeless after the hurricane , and were forced to sleep in the open overnight . Federal relief agencies previously providing service for areas affected by Hurricanes Gladys and Hilda earlier in the year in western areas of the Gulf Coast of Mexico were ordered to extend relief operations to the Yucatán Peninsula . In Quintana Roo , Hurricane Janet was estimated to have caused $ 40 million in damages and at least 500 deaths , the most of any region affected by Janet . 
