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October 10 — Hurricane Michael made landfall at 17:30 UTC near Mexico Beach, Florida with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (255 km/h), making it the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Florida panhandle, and the first Category 5 hurricane to hit the United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
The Tampa Bay hurricane of 1921 (also known as the 1921 Tarpon Springs hurricane) was a destructive and deadly major hurricane which made landfall in the Tampa Bay area of Florida in late October 1921, becoming the first to do so there since the hurricane of 1848.
Tampa Bay: 1921 October 25: West central peninsula No Yes No 3 Most severe storm to hit Tampa in 70 years [30] Great Miami: 1926: September 18–20: Miami Pensacola: Yes No Yes 4 Highest wind and lowest pressure sampled till then in U.S. [31] Okeechobee: 1928: September 16–17: Palm Beach–Lake Okeechobee, Florida peninsula Yes No Yes 4 Led ...
The last major hurricane to hit the Tampa Bay area was in 1921 when the city had a population of around 52,000. Eight people died as winds up to 120 mph and a storm surge as high as 11 feet ...
A split tree in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida on Sept. 27, 2024 after Hurricane Helene hit Tampa Bay. Tana Anderson, co-owner of the Crescent Beach Market on Siesta Key in Sarasota, pushes ...
The last time Tampa Bay sustained a direct hit by a hurricane was in October 1921, a full century ago, before hurricanes were given names. The NWS describes the hurricane as "the forgotten nightmare."
The 1946 Florida hurricane also known as the 1946 Tampa Bay hurricane was the last hurricane to make direct landfall in the Tampa Bay Area of the U.S. state of Florida to date. Forming on October 5 from the complex interactions of several weather systems over the southern Caribbean Sea , the storm rapidly strengthened before striking western Cuba .
Tampa Bay was last hit by a major hurricane in 1921, when just a few hundred people lived in sparsely developed backwater towns — and the community was still devastated. Ocean waves broke in the ...