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Hurricane Flossie was a powerful Pacific tropical cyclone that brought squally weather and light damage to Hawaii in August 2007. The sixth named storm , second hurricane, first and only major hurricane of the inactive 2007 Pacific hurricane season , Flossie originated from a tropical wave that emerged off Africa on July 21.
August 13 – Hurricane Charley struck southwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest landfall in the continental United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Its eye crossed Cayo Costa and later the mainland at Punta Gorda, before crossing the state with much of its intensity retained. A wind gust of 173 mph (278 km/h) was ...
The season officially started on May 15, 2007, in the eastern Pacific, designated as the area east of 140°W, and on June 1, 2007, in the central Pacific, which is between the International Date Line and 140°W, and lasted until November 30, 2007. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the ...
Despite the high activity of weak storms during 2007, it was the first season to feature more than one Category 5 landfalling hurricane, a feat that would not be matched until ten years later. It produced 17 tropical cyclones , 15 tropical storms, six hurricanes, and two major hurricanes.
The November 1932 Cuba hurricane and Hurricane Irma in 2007 spent the longest combined time at Category 5 strength ... The Great Labor Day Hurricane slammed through Florida in early September 1935 ...
Tropical Storm Flossie (1983) Tropical Storm Flossie (1989) Hurricane Flossie (1995) Hurricane Flossie (2001) Hurricane Flossie (2007) – passed near Hawaii. Tropical Storm Flossie (2013) – almost made landfall in Hawaii, but moved to the north and weakened. Hurricane Flossie (2019) – neared Hawaii as a tropical depression.
Hurricane Milton left a trail of destruction in Florida after making landfall on Wednesday evening as a Category 3 storm, causing at least 10 reported deaths. Emergency crews are still working to ...
The hurricane peaked with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (140 km/h) before it struck the central Gulf coast of the United States as a Category 1 hurricane on September 24, and evolved into an extratropical cyclone on September 25. [1] It was the first hurricane to affect oil refining in the Gulf of Mexico.