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In post-hurricane-season analysis, Charley was determined to have struck southern Cuba with winds of 120 mph (195 km/h) hurricane; the original estimate was revised based on a report of a sustained wind measurement of 118 mph (190 km/h) in Playa Baracoa, meaning Charley was a major hurricane at landfall. [6]
Hurricane Charley affected at least ten U.S. states, [8] [10] [14] resulting in five total deaths and $15 million in damage (1986 USD). [1] The precursor disturbance to Charley brought rainfall to much of Florida, including a total of 8.61 inches (219 millimetres) in Steinhatchee ; that rainfall maxima was the greatest total associated with ...
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) used his barometric pressure reading of 942 mb (hPa) inside Hurricane Charley's eye in their final report as the official lowest pressure recorded by a handheld barometer during Charley. [2] In 2005, Theiss captured the highest storm surge on video during Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Hurricane Charley was the first hurricane to threaten the east-central United States since Hurricane Gloria in the previous year. The third tropical storm and second hurricane of the season, Charley formed as a subtropical low on August 13 along the Florida panhandle. A few days later intensified it into a tropical storm off the coast of South ...
Hurricane Andrew seemed ancient history in 2004, and 1999’s Floyd terrified thousands into a ragged evacuation, then veered north. Then came Charley.
Charley was still of hurricane intensity around midnight when its center cleared the northeast coast of Florida near Daytona Beach, according to NOAA. Charley claimed 10 lives in Florida.
“Because of Charley,” a film with Florida ties, heads to video-on-demand platforms next month. Freestyle Digital Media has acquired the VOD rights to the film and will make it available to ...
Tropical Storm Charley was the third named storm of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season. Charley was the first of two tropical storms to make landfall in Texas during that season (Frances being the other). [1] The storm originated with a tropical wave that moved off the West African coast on August 9. [2]