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August 29, 1999- High surf from Hurricane Dennis paralleling the east coast of Florida causes four fatalities. [89] September 15, 1999- Once predicted to make a landfall on the state as a major hurricane, Hurricane Floyd parallels the eastern coastline about 115 miles (185 km) offshore. At least 330 homes are damaged by fallen trees, and rough ...
The 1999 Atlantic hurricane season was a fairly active season, mostly due to a persistent La Niña that developed in the latter half of 1998.It had five Category 4 hurricanes – the highest number recorded in a single season in the Atlantic basin, previously tied in 1933 and 1961, and later tied in 2005 and 2020.
The 1999 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual tropical cyclone season in the north Atlantic Ocean.This Atlantic hurricane season saw a near-average number of named tropical storms, [1] [nb 1] though five of them became dangerous hurricanes of Category 4 intensity on the 5-level Saffir–Simpson scale, the most in a single season since 1886. [3]
No-name storm swamps South Florida with flooding, high winds. ... It was part of a $70 million project to reduce flooding in western Miami-Dade after another no-name storm swamped more than 90,000 ...
It later dropped 10 to 20 inches (254 to 508 millimetres) of rainfall in the Miami metropolitan area, causing urban flooding unseen since Hurricane Dennis in 1981. Despite being only a Category 1 hurricane, Irene caused eight indirect deaths and $800 million (1999 USD) [nb 1] in damage across Florida. [2]
No-name storm swamps South Florida. ... In Miami-Dade, Biscayne Park saw the worst of it with over 10 inches of rain. Other regions hovered between 7 to 10 inches, including North Miami, Coral ...
The no-name storm system pushed across Florida from the Gulf of Mexico at roughly the same time as the early June start of hurricane season, which this year is forecast to be among the most active ...
In the United States, the storm was responsible for the loss of electric power to more than 10 million households. An estimated 40 percent of the country's population experienced the effects of the storm [5] and it led to a total of 208 fatalities. [1] In all, the storm resulted in 318 deaths, and caused $5.5 billion (1993 USD) in damages.