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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 ...
2023 – Category 4 hurricane which made landfall as a tropical storm along the Baja California peninsula, dumping torrential rain there and in Southern California. Hilda; 1955 – a strong category 3 hurricane that was the second in a succession of three hurricanes to strike near Tampico, Mexico.
In recent years, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane was Hurricane Mitch of 1998, with at least 11,374 deaths attributed to it, while the deadliest Atlantic hurricane overall was the Great Hurricane of 1780, which resulted in at least 22,000 fatalities.
Tied for second most hurricanes in a season on record Eastern Pacific: 13* 8 3 Celia: 268 $1.62 billion Least active Pacific hurricane season on record tied with 1977: Western Pacific: 29 14 7 Megi: 384 $2.96 billion Fanapi: Quietest Pacific typhoon season on record North Indian: 8 6 5 Giri: 402 $2.99 billion South-West Indian (Jan.–July/Aug ...
The most intense storm by lowest pressure and peak 10-minute sustained winds was Typhoon Tip, which was also the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in terms of minimum central pressure. Storms with a minimum pressure of 899 hPa (26.55 inHg) or less are listed. Storm information was less reliably documented and recorded before 1950. [6]
The article for the "hurricane" (now known as tropical cyclone) was created on December 2, 2001.On October 3, 2002, User:Ed Poor created an article for Hurricane Lili while the storm was active and near peak intensity; since then, many other people have edited the article to help make it a .
Of the 42 Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes on record, 2 have been recorded in July, 8 in August, 25 in September, 7 in October, and 1 in November. There have been no officially recorded June or off-season Category 5 hurricanes. [6] The July and August Category 5 hurricanes reached their high intensities in both the Gulf of Mexico and the ...
Hurricane Dorian in August 2019 was the strongest, deadliest, and most damaging hurricane to hit The Bahamas in recorded history, making landfall on Great Abaco island with winds of 185 mph (298 km/h) and a central pressure of 910 millibars (26.87 inHg). Dorian killed 74 people, and caused US$2.5 billion in damages.