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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 ...
Early-October 1989 – Hurricane Raymond from the East Pacific causes rainfall in northern Texas, peaking at 2.80 in (71 mm) in Yorktown. [19] [55] October 16, 1989 – Hurricane Jerry affects the Galveston area as a minimal hurricane. The storm kills three people when a car is blown off The Galveston seawall.
Hurricane Michael making landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane on October 10, 2018. In the 21st century, 80 tropical and subtropical cyclones, their remnants, and their precursors have affected the U.S. state of Florida. Collectively, cyclones in Florida during the time period resulted in more than $236 billion in damage ...
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 2019. [111] This was the same list used in the 2013 season, with the exception of the name Imelda, which replaced Ingrid. [112]
October 11, 2018 – Tropical Storm Michael moves through the state, leaving 428,000 homes without power and killed 3 people after trees struck their cars. [55] September 5, 2019 – Hurricane Dorian brushes by the state and makes landfall in Cape Hatteras. September 19, 2019 – Rip currents from Hurricane Humberto kill a man at Topsail Beach ...
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 2008. [113] This was the same list used in the 2002 season, [114] with the exceptions of Ike and Laura, which replaced Isidore and Lili, respectively. [115] [116] Storms were named Ike, Omar, and Paloma for the first (and in the cases of Ike and Paloma ...
It caused $30 billion in damage and more than 40 deaths. It was the costliest natural disaster in the history of the U.S. at the time. When the 1992 hurricane season ended, the name Andrew was ...
Formerly, if a season's primary list of names were fully used, subsequent storms would be assigned names based on the letters of the Greek alphabet. [10] According to the WMO's initial policy established in 2006, the Greek letter named storms could never be retired "lest an irreplaceable chunk be taken out of the alphabet."