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Category 4 is the second-highest hurricane classification category on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and storms that are of this intensity maintain maximum sustained winds of 113–136 knots (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h). Based on the Atlantic hurricane database, 144 hurricanes have attained Category 4 hurricane status since 1851, the ...
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 ...
Florida peninsula Yes No Yes 4 Led to Herbert Hoover Dike [32] Unnamed: 1929: September 27–October 1: Key Largo Northwest Florida: No No Yes 3 Gusted to 150 mph (240 km/h) [33] Unnamed: 1933: September 3–4: Jupiter, Florida peninsula No Yes No 3 Gusted to 125 mph (201 km/h) [33] Labor Day: 1935: September 2–4: Florida Keys Taylor County ...
Hurricane Helene — now a Category 4 storm — is forecast to make landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast on Thursday evening, the National Hurricane Center said.. The storm is expected to bring ...
Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday afternoon as a powerful Category 4 hurricane battering Florida’s Gulf Coast with 150 mph winds. Cat. 5 storms making landfall in U.S. are rare. But three ...
These Atlantic hurricanes reached Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale at their peak. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
The entire Florida Gulf Coast bears recent hurricane scars. Just two years ago, Cat 4 Hurricane Ian destroyed Fort Myers Beach, drowning the city. That storm wound up the deadliest in Florida in ...
However, the next day, it weakened to a Category 4 hurricane, then further weakening to Category 3 intensity as strong southwesterly wind shear of 35–40 mph (56–65 km/h) overtook the hurricane. [253] At 00:30 UTC on October 10, Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane with 120 mph (195 km/h) winds. Milton ...