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  2. List of the deadliest tropical cyclones - Wikipedia

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    A collage of the ten deadliest tropical cyclones worldwide since 1990 This is a list of the deadliest tropical cyclones , including all known storms that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths. There were at least 76 tropical cyclones in the 20th century with a death toll of 1,000 or more, including the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history.

  3. 1970 Bhola cyclone - Wikipedia

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    The 1970 Bhola cyclone (also known as the Great Cyclone of 1970 [1]) was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on 12 November 1970. [2] It remains the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded and one of the world's deadliest humanitarian disasters.

  4. List of tropical cyclone records - Wikipedia

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    Costliest tropical cyclone season: ≥$294.803 billion (2017 USD) in damages during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season: April 19, 2017 – November 9, 2017: North Atlantic Ocean [6] Deadliest tropical cyclone: c. 500,000+ fatalities: November 12, 1970: Bhola cyclone in East Pakistan [7] [8] Deadliest tropical cyclone season

  5. List of Atlantic hurricane records - Wikipedia

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    However, with a barometric pressure of 895 mbar (hPa; 26.43 inHg), Rita is the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico. [64] In between Rita and Katrina is Hurricane Allen. Allen's pressure was measured at 899 mbar. Hurricane Camille is the sixth strongest hurricane on record.

  6. List of United States hurricanes - Wikipedia

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    The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...

  7. List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Tropical cyclone July 27 –August 3 1923 105,385-142,800 1923 Great Kantō earthquake: Japan Earthquake September 1 1924 1,000 Great flood of 99: India Flood July 1925 5,000 1925 Dali earthquake: China Earthquake March 16 1926 709 1926 Havana–Bermuda hurricane: Cuba, United States, Bahamas, Bermuda Tropical cyclone October 14 –28 1927 40,912

  8. List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes - Wikipedia

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    The record of the costliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic is held jointly by hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Harvey (2017), both of which resulted in approximately $125 billion in property damage during the year they occurred. These storms are also the costliest tropical cyclones recorded worldwide.

  9. Cyclone Freddy - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, it is the third-deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the Southern Hemisphere, only behind 2019's Cyclone Idai and the 1973 Flores cyclone. Freddy originated from a tropical low that was located south of the Indonesian archipelago on 4 February 2023.