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Hurricane Charley was the first of four separate hurricanes to impact or strike Florida during 2004, along with Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, as well as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the United States.
It's been 20 years since Hurricane Charley made landfall in the Sunshine State, wreaking havoc as it tore through Florida and jumpstarting a devastating hurricane season.
Charley made landfall as a major category-four hurricane with winds near 150 mph near Cayo Costa, just west of Fort Myers on August 13, 2004. An hour later, the hurricane struck Punta Gorda as a 145-mph hurricane, then passed up through Port Charlotte and Charlotte Harbor.
Twenty years ago, on Aug. 13, 2004, before social media and the ubiquity of the iPhone, destructive Hurricane Charley made landfall as a powerful Category 4 hurricane along the Florida Gulf...
Hurricane Charley strengthened rapidly just before striking the southwestern coast of Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Charley was the strongest hurricane to hit the United States since Andrew in 1992 and, although small in size, it caused catastrophic wind damage in Charlotte County, Florida.
These outer rainbands typically produce the strongest tornadoes and around 730-45 pm Friday the most significant tornado associated with Charley in central Florida struck portions of Daytona Beach. Timeline of Hurricane Charley Radar Images.
Hurricane Charley's stunning swath of destruction through Florida's midsection became clearer Saturday as federal and state officials began a widespread relief effort.