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Ian was the ninth named storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, and was the first Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic since Lorenzo in 2019. [ 6 ] Ian originated from a tropical wave that moved off the coast of West Africa and across the central tropical Atlantic towards the Windward Islands .
August 31 – Hurricane Gustav brushed the Florida Keys before tracking into central Louisiana. Rip currents from the hurricane killed four people in Florida. The storm also produced six tornadoes in the state. [82] September 5 – Hurricane Hanna passed east of the state while moving toward the Carolinas. Rip currents and high seas killed ...
Throughout the Florida Keys, the hurricane ripped about 150 vessels loose from their moorings. [ 57 ] Several tornadoes touched down in South Florida as the storm approached on September 27–28; 12 tornadoes touched down with all but one of them occurring in the Miami metropolitan area . [ 58 ]
The Florida Keys was spared much of the damage that Hurricane Ian inflicted on Fort Myers and other areas of the state’s Gulf Coast, but the powerful storm brought significant surge to the ...
PHOTO: A day after Hurricane Ian hit Florida's west coast as a Category 4 storm, wrecked ships (mostly shrimpers) can be seen at San Carlos Island in Fort Myers Beach on Sept. 29, 2022.
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was a destructive and deadly Atlantic hurricane season.Despite having an average number of named storms and below average amount of major hurricanes, [nb 1] it became the fourth-costliest Atlantic hurricane season on record, behind only 2024, 2005, and 2017, mostly due to Hurricane Ian.
Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore is in Florida ahead of Helene's expected Thursday arrival. According to a post on X, Cantore is Port Richey, a suburb of Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater.