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Hurricane Dorian in 2019 was the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Bahamas, with one-minute maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (298 km/h), causing $2.5 billion in damage and at least 74 deaths.
A Category 5 Atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator. They are among the strongest tropical cyclones that can form on Earth, having 1-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 137 knots (254 km/h ; 158 mph ; 70 m ...
1899 San Ciriaco hurricane; 1903 Florida hurricane; 1926 Nassau hurricane; 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; 1929 Bahamas hurricane; 1932 Bahamas hurricane; 1933 Cuba–Bahamas hurricane; 1933 Cuba–Brownsville hurricane; 1933 Treasure Coast hurricane; 1945 Homestead hurricane; 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane; 1948 Miami hurricane; 1949 Florida hurricane
The 10 costliest Atlantic hurricanes as of January 2023.. As of November 2024, there have been 1,745 tropical cyclones of at least tropical storm intensity, 971 at hurricane intensity, and 338 at major hurricane intensity within the Atlantic Ocean since 1851, the first Atlantic hurricane season to be included in the official Atlantic tropical cyclone record. [1]
The Major Hurricanes to Affect the Bahamas. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1425966089. — (5 June 2012) [2012]. The Great Bahamian Hurricanes of 1899 and 1932. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4759-2553-1 – via Google Books. — (2019). The Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes to Impact the Bahamas. Cheyenne, Wyoming: UrLink. ISBN 978-1-64753 ...
The storm caused significant damage in the area and killed five people after killing 14 in the Bahamas. ... is considered the deadliest and one of the most intense hurricanes in Cuban history. At ...
While multiple hurricanes that made landfall in the U.S. peaked at Category 5, only four storms on record have done so at that intensity. ... It was the costliest natural disaster in the history ...
Hurricane Dorian became the costliest hurricane in the Bahamas on record. It struck the Abaco Islands as a Category 5 hurricane on September 1, and a day later hit Grand Bahama Island at the same category. The hurricane then stalled over Grand Bahama for another day, finally pulling away from the island on September 3.