I'm not sure what sat. that picture can from, maybe one of the mods. can help. But that sure looks like hurricane camille in the gulf, I think hurricane camille occured in 1969 August if I'm correct, and it also has the the area of no clouds around the intense eye area, which is sonomous with Hurricane Camille.
You can see the picture by going to hurricane history and clicking the Hurricane Camille by storm lover, I have a post having a website that shows a good close up picture of the storm.
camille was fairly compact. you'd be surprised how small it was.. go look it up on the ncdc archives. HF