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September 5 – Hurricane Hanna passed east of the state while moving toward the Carolinas. Rip currents and high seas killed three people in the state. [83] [84] September 8 – As Hurricane Ike moved through Cuba, its outer bands dropped heavy rainfall in South Florida, and spawned two tornadoes in the Upper Florida Keys. [85]
The hurricane weakened to a Category 2 hurricane on September 22 as it curved to the northeast in response to a baroclinic trough. [76] After wind shear lessened, [82] Karl briefly became a major hurricane again on September 23. [76] However, wind shear returned later that day and ocean temperatures began cooling. [83]
Hurricane Ivan on September 13. 11:30 p.m. EDT (0330 UTC, September 11) – Hurricane Ivan passes just south of Jamaica with 150 mph (240 km/h) winds. [11] September 11. 8 p.m. EDT (0000 UTC, September 12) – Hurricane Ivan has a recorded minimum pressure of 910 millibars, making it the then sixth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record. [11]
After 2005, another hurricane wouldn’t breach Florida until 2016’s Hermine. In 2004, hurricane forecasting was rapidly improving, said Max Mayfield, the director of the National Hurricane ...
Tropical cyclones have affected Florida in every month of the year with the exceptions of January and March. Nearly one-third of the cyclones affected the state in September, and nearly three-fourths of the storms affected the state between August and October, which coincides with the peak of the hurricane season.
Post photographers captured the destruction of the 2004 Mean Season: the fallen trees, the blown-off roofs, the agony. And the sand. So much sand.
Two men walk past a building destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in Orange Beach, Ala., Friday, Sept. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) On Sept. 2, 2004, a tropical depression formed off the coast of Africa.
Hurricane Jeanne was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin since Mitch in 1998, and the deadliest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2004.It was the tenth named storm, the seventh hurricane, and the fifth major hurricane of the season, as well as the third hurricane and fourth named storm of the season to make landfall in Florida.