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The decade of the 1800s featured the 1800s Atlantic hurricane seasons. While data is not available for every storm that occurred, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to give data of hurricane occurrences. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic basin. Most tropical cyclone ...
The 1900 Atlantic hurricane season was a below average hurricane season that featured the Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. A total of 10 tropical cyclones formed, seven of which intensified into a tropical storm. Three of those made landfall in the United States.
First Atlantic hurricane season to be included in the HURDAT. 1852: 5 5 1 73.28 100+ 3 "Great Mobile" 3 "Great Mobile" One of three seasons in which all known cyclones became hurricanes. 1853: 8 4 2 76.49 40 4 Three: Earliest known Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. 1854: 5 3 1 31.00 30+ 3 "South Carolina" 3 "South Carolina" 1855 ...
The Sea Islands Hurricane, packing estimated 121 mph winds and a 16-foot storm surge (a Category 3 by today’s scales), struck the Southeast coastlines in an explosive blitzkrieg of saltwater and ...
The 1780 Atlantic hurricane season was extraordinarily destructive and was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history with over 25,000 deaths. Four different hurricanes, three in October and one in June, caused at least 1,000 deaths each; this event has never been repeated and only in the 1893 and 2005 seasons were there two ...
By one estimate, the hurricane wiped out 5,000 sq mi (13,000 km 2) of timber across the state. [56] This transformed the landscape and gave it a "prairie-like appearance". [57] The turpentine industry was decimated, as the value of the lost pine timber was estimated at $1.5 million (equivalent to $54.9 million in 2023).
History of hurricane, storm naming. During the 1800s and early 1900s, hurricanes that happened in the West Indies were named after the particular Saint's Day on which the storm occurred ...
Since 1900, only one Category 5 hurricane has been observed in the Atlantic during November, an unnamed hurricane that remained at that strength in the Caribbean for three days. That storm hit ...