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Dorian also dropped an estimated 3.0 ft (0.91 m) of rain over The Bahamas. [16] Hurricane Dorian killed at least 70 people in The Bahamas – 60 on Abaco and 10 on Grand Bahama. [17] One of the fatalities was classified as indirect. [18] Damage amounted to US$3.4 billion. [19] Insured losses alone were confirmed to be at least US$1 billion. [20]
Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, which became the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike The Bahamas, and is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic basin in terms of maximum sustained winds. The 2019 cyclone is regarded as the worst ...
The slow-moving storm remained parked over Grand Bahama Island for a second day early Tuesday (September 2), packing winds of 130 mph (125 km/h), higher gusts and storm surges of 10 to 15 feet ...
On Sunday, Dorian's maximum sustained winds reached 185 mph (297 kph), with gusts up to 220 mph (354 kph), tying the record for the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever to make landfall.
The storms collectively killed 101 people. 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.
Practically parking over a portion of the Bahamas for a day and a half, Dorian pounded the northern Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama with winds up to 185 mph (295 kph) and torrential rain before ...
This intensity made Dorian the strongest hurricane outside of the tropics. [43] The cyclone's 185 mph (295 km/h) landfall on Abaco Island was the strongest on record for The Bahamas. [3] [43] Dorian was the second Category 5 hurricane to make landfall on the Abaco Islands on record, the other having occurred in 1932. [45]
Hurricane Dorian has gained fearsome new muscle as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm, bearing down on the northwestern Bahamas en route to the U.S.