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Hurricane Charley was the first of four separate hurricanes to impact or strike Florida during 2004, along with Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, as well as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the United States. It was the third named storm, the second hurricane, and the second major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.
Walt Disney World theme park in Orlando, Florida has only been closed 15 times, including for Hurricane Milton and on September 11, 2001. ... All four parks shut their doors for the last major ...
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 ...
August 13 – Hurricane Charley struck southwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest landfall in the continental United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Its eye crossed Cayo Costa and later the mainland at Punta Gorda, before crossing the state with much of its intensity retained. A wind gust of 173 mph (278 km/h) was ...
If the parks do close, it would only be the 12th time in Disney World’s 53-year history. Nine of the past 11 closures were due to hurricanes: Floyd (September 1999), Charley (August 2004 ...
After 2005, another hurricane wouldn’t breach Florida until 2016’s Hermine. In 2004, hurricane forecasting was rapidly improving, said Max Mayfield, the director of the National Hurricane ...
Hurricane Jeanne was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin since Mitch in 1998, and the deadliest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2004.It was the tenth named storm, the seventh hurricane, and the fifth major hurricane of the season, as well as the third hurricane and fourth named storm of the season to make landfall in Florida.
Theme parks have closed in 2004 for Hurricane Charley, for example, and in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Walt Disney World to close ahead of Hurricane Matthew Skip to ...