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The most intense hurricane (by barometric pressure) on record in the North Atlantic basin was Hurricane Wilma (882 mbar). [12] The largest hurricane (in gale diameter winds) on record to form in the North Atlantic was Hurricane Sandy (2012) with a gale diameter of 870 miles (1,400 km). [52]
Radar image of Hurricane Alice (1954–55), the only Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to span two calendar years at hurricane strength. Climatologically speaking, approximately 97 percent of tropical cyclones that form in the North Atlantic develop between June 1 and November 30 – dates which delimit the modern-day Atlantic hurricane season.
The Atlantic hurricane season is the period in a year, from June 1 through November 30, when tropical or subtropical cyclones are most likely to form in the North Atlantic Ocean. These dates, adopted by convention, encompass the period in each year when most tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the basin .
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 ...
Lists of Atlantic hurricanes, or tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, ... List of North Carolina hurricanes. List of North Carolina hurricanes (pre-1900)
The costliest storms were hurricanes Katrina in August 2005 and Harvey in August 2017; each storm struck the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing $125 billion in damage, much of it from flooding. [nb 1] The most recent North Atlantic names to be retired were Fiona and Ian following the 2022 season.
Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey in the northern Gulf Coast of the United States [5] Costliest tropical cyclone season: ≥$294.803 billion (2017 USD) in damages during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season: April 19, 2017 – November 9, 2017: North Atlantic Ocean [6] Deadliest tropical cyclone: c. 500,000+ fatalities: November 12, 1970
The fourth tropical storm and third hurricane of the 1932 Atlantic hurricane season, it belonged to a pair of Category 5 storms in the Atlantic Ocean that year, the other happening in November. The cyclone formed north of the Virgin Islands on August 30, over the next three days gradually strengthening. Heading west-northwest, it became a ...