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Hurricane Frances was the second most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic during 2004 and proved to be very destructive in Florida. It was the sixth named storm, the fourth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. The system crossed the open Atlantic in late August, moving to the north of the Lesser ...
September 2, 2004 - Hurricane Frances roars through the Bahamas as a category 3, being the first storm since 1866 to impact the entire Bahama Archipelago. At its peak, around 75% of people living in the Bahamas lost power.
Hurricanes Frances (top left) and Ivan (bottom right) on September 5. Reflecting the season's high activity, the accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index for the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season was 227 units, [nb 4] [20] one of the highest values on record in the basin. ACE is, broadly speaking, a measure of the power of the hurricane multiplied ...
In 2004, hurricane forecasting was rapidly improving, said Max Mayfield, the director of the National Hurricane Center from 2000-07. ... Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne hit Florida in ...
The second of four hurricanes to make landfall in Florida in 2004, Frances came ashore Sept. 5 by Sewall’s Point in Martin County as a Category 2 storm, meaning 96 to 110 mph sustained winds.
2.5 million Florida residents are ordered to evacuate their homes in preparation for Hurricane Frances, which has already hit the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands. Frances is currently a strong Category Two Hurricane, and will be very near the east coast of Florida by late tonight or early next morning.
The point was brought home in September of 2004, just a year before Katrina, when back-to-back strikes from Hurricanes Frances and Ivan killed 11 in the same area Helene struck.
The accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index for the 2004 (seven basins combined), as calculated by Colorado State University was 1024.4 units. The costliest tropical cyclone was Hurricane Ivan , which struck Caribbean and United States in September causing a tornado outbreak , with US$26.1 billion in damage.