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A collage of the ten deadliest tropical cyclones worldwide since 1990 This is a list of the deadliest tropical cyclones , including all known storms that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths. There were at least 76 tropical cyclones in the 20th century with a death toll of 1,000 or more, including the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history.
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
By the end of this Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds, 10,000 of them had lost their homes in the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. cestes001/istockphoto Hurricane Maria
However, four of the storms remained intense enough at landfall to be considered some of the strongest landfalling hurricanes – four of the ten hurricanes on the list constitute four of the top ten most intense Atlantic landfalls in recorded history. The 1935 Labor Day hurricane made landfall at peak intensity, the most intense Atlantic ...
Hurricane Ian was the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. 2022 Hurricane: 25 ≥$5.88 billion Hurricane Fiona: Puerto Rico: 2022 Flood: 44 $1.2 billion (Kentucky and Missouri only) [3] July–August 2022 United States floods: Greater St. Louis, Central Appalachia, Southern and Southwestern ...
It was the most deadly tropical storm in modern history. Francisco Portillo, 9, stands inside his house, destroyed by Hurricane Mitch, in Villa Chilanguera, 115 kilometers (71 miles) east of San ...
Florida’s 1928 Okeechobee hurricane is the state’s deadliest so far, second in the nation only to the 1900 Galveston storm. The 1928 hurricane’s official death toll was 1,836, but local ...
1932 Cuba hurricane: Cayman Islands, Cuba Tropical cyclone November 9 1933 6,865–9,300 1933 Diexi earthquake: China Earthquake August 25 1934 10,700–12,000 1934 Nepal–India earthquake: Nepal, India January 15 1935 145,000 1935 Yangtze flood: China Flood July 6 1936 5,000+ 1936 North American heat wave: United States, Canada Heat wave