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October 9 – Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 120 mph (195 km/h), becoming the second major hurricane to strike Florida in under a two-week period. [221] The storm brought significant flooding and damaging winds to much of the state.
The outer bands of Milton spawned tornadoes more than 100 miles from where the hurricane made landfall in Florida's west coast, considerably expanding the range of its damage.
After rapidly intensifying to a rare Category 5 hurricane followed by a gradual weakening to a Category 3 in the Gulf of Mexico, the eye of Milton made landfall at about 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday ...
Hurricane Milton, the most recent landfalling Florida major hurricane on October 9, 2024. Approximately 500 tropical and subtropical cyclones have affected the state of Florida. More storms hit Florida than any other U.S. state, [1] and since 1851 only eighteen hurricane seasons passed without a known storm impacting the state.
Hurricane Milton lashed Florida's Gulf Coast with flooding rain and winds of 120 miles per hour that left homes — and, in some cases, full neighborhoods — drenched, muddied and dilapidated. At ...
The hurricane spawned a deadly tornado outbreak and caused widespread flooding in Florida. As of October 21, 2024, Hurricane Milton killed at least 35 people: 32 in the United States and 3 in Mexico. Current damage estimates place the cost of destruction from the storm at US$34.3 billion. [9]
Milton spawned a deadly tornado outbreak that killed at least six in St. Lucie County on Florida's east coast. Crews with the National Weather Service were expected to survey damage Friday and ...
As wind and flood damage are assessed in Florida, the storm has shifted eastward heading across the state, toward the Atlantic Ocean. Tampa has not had a direct hit by a major hurricane since 1921.