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The 1990 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season since 1969, with a total of 14 named storms.The season also featured eight hurricanes, one of which intensified into a major hurricane.
Simultaneously, the storm attains its peak intensity with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 987 mbar (hPa; 29.15 inHg). [21] 0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Marco attains its peak intensity with winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 989 mbar (hPa; 29.21 inHg). [22]
[90] September 21, 1999- Tropical Storm Harvey strikes Everglades City with a storm surge of over 2 feet (0.61 m). The storm drops over 10 inches (250 mm) of rain, flooding several homes. Damage from Harvey totals $15 million (1999 USD, $19 million 2008 USD). [91]
Tropical Storm Marco was the only tropical cyclone to make landfall on the United States during the 1990 Atlantic hurricane season. The 13th named storm of the season, Marco formed from a cold-core low pressure area along the northern coast of Cuba on October 9, and tracked northwestward through the eastern Gulf of Mexico .
In the United States, the storm was responsible for the loss of electric power to more than 10 million households. An estimated 40 percent of the country's population experienced the effects of the storm [5] and it led to a total of 208 fatalities. [1] In all, the storm resulted in 318 deaths, and caused $5.5 billion (1993 USD) in damages.
The 1991 Halloween blizzard was a powerful storm that caused a period of heavy snowfall and ice accumulation, which affected parts of the Upper Midwest of the United States, from October 31 to November 4, 1991.
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In DC, it was known as the "Blizzard of '96" or the "Great Furlough Storm," because it occurred just after the 1996 federal government shutdown [4] and since the Federal government was closed due to the storm, lengthened the time federal employees were away from their jobs in the DC area. Because of unseasonably warm weather in mid-January and ...