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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 ...
Hurricane Dorian became the costliest hurricane in the Bahamas on record. It struck the Abaco Islands as a Category 5 hurricane on September 1, and a day later hit Grand Bahama Island at the same category. The hurricane then stalled over Grand Bahama for another day, finally pulling away from the island on September 3.
1900s. September 15–16, 1928 − The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane causes 21 fatalities in the archipelago. [5][6] September 5, 1932 - The 1932 Bahamas Hurricane strikes Great Abaco Island as a Category 5. Damage in Nassau, despite being just 65 miles from the hurricane, is minimal. However, on Great Abaco Island, winds of up to 160 mph (260 km/h ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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]
The colossal Atlantic storm has killed at least five people in the Bahamas and has forced more than a million people in the U.S. to evacuate their homes. Hurricane Dorian, stalled over Bahamas ...