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August 1993: Hurricane Fernanda brought heavy surf of up to 15 feet (4.6 m) on the east facing beaches from the Big Island to Kauai. Wave heights between 15 and 20 feet (4.6 and 6.1 m) was reported on Kauai. Shoreline roads on all islands were damaged and some homes flooded. [24]
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 ...
In the 1959 season, Hurricane Dot hit Kauai in August, then Hurricane Patsy came very close to the Kure Atoll, northwest of the main islands in September.
Hurricane Iniki (/ iː ˈ n iː k iː / ee-NEE-kee; Hawaiian: ʻiniki meaning "strong and piercing wind") was a hurricane that struck the island of Kauaʻi on September 11, 1992. It was the most powerful hurricane to strike Hawaiʻi in recorded history, and the only hurricane to directly affect the state during the 1992 Pacific hurricane season. [1]
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Lists of Atlantic hurricanes, or tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, are organized by the properties of the hurricane or by the location most affected. By property [ edit ]
The Sunshine State tops the list at No. 1, tallying 120 hurricanes (37 were Category 3 through Category 5). Two of them − Hurricane Michael in October of 2018 and Hurricane Andrew in August of ...
August 9, 1871 - Indigenous sources suggest that a Category 3 hurricane struck the Big Island and Maui. [6] August 7, 1958 – A tropical storm makes landfall on the Big Island of Hawaii. [120] August 7, 1959 – Hurricane Dot makes landfall on Kauai. [121] October 20, 1983 – Tropical Depression Raymond makes landfall on Molokai, Oahu, and ...