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Largest in diameter 1,150 miles ... Hurricane Wilma – 2005 – diameter 2.3 miles (3.7 km) See also. Tropical cyclones portal; List of tropical cyclone records;
Typhoon Tip was the largest tropical cyclone on record, with a diameter of 1,380 mi (2,220 km)—almost double the previous record of 700 mi (1,130 km) in diameter set by Typhoon Marge in August 1951. [20] [21] [22] At its largest, Tip was nearly half the size of the contiguous United States. [23]
^α Although Luis produced the highest confirmed wave height for a tropical cyclone, it is possible that Hurricane Ivan produced a wave measuring 131 feet (40 m). [41]^β It is believed that reconnaissance aircraft overestimated wind speeds in tropical cyclones from the 1940s to the 1960s, and data from this time period is generally considered unreliable.
It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 1,150 miles (1,850 km). [3] [4] [5] The storm inflicted nearly US$70 billion in damage (equivalent to $93 billion in 2023), and killed 254 people in eight countries, from the Caribbean to Canada.
Helene is one of the largest hurricanes ever recorded on the Gulf Coast, ... The only three Gulf hurricanes that were bigger than Helene’s predicted size were 2017’s Irma, 2005’s Wilma and ...
Year: 1980. Location: Made landfall on South Padre Island, Texas. Peak Wind Speed: 190 mph. Deaths: 269. What happened: Allen is considered to be the only hurricane in the history of the Atlantic ...
Largest Atlantic hurricanes By diameter of gale-force winds; Rank System Season Diameter mi km 1 Sandy: 2012: 1,150 1,850 2 Martin: 2022: 1,040 1,670 3 Igor: 2010: 920
Of the 197 hurricanes classified as Category 5 from 1980 to 2021, five fit the description of a hypothetical Category 6 hurricane: Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, Hurricane Patricia in 2015, Typhoon ...