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Hurricane Ivan caused $18.82 billion in Alabama, [77] which is the costliest ever recorded in the state. However, despite 56 people dying in the United States, none of them were in Alabama. Hurricane Ivan was also the strongest hurricane to hit Alabama since Hurricane Frederic in 1979, which was a Category 4. [citation needed]
Monthly distribution of Alabama hurricanes and tropical storms from 1851 to 2020 Infrared imagery of Hurricane Ivan making landfall in Alabama in 2004. An Alabama hurricane is a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that affected the U.S. state of Alabama.
Two men walk past a building destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in Orange Beach, Ala., Friday, Sept. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) On Sept. 2, 2004, a tropical depression formed off the coast of Africa.
The Hurricane Ivan tornado outbreak was a three-day tornado outbreak that was associated with the passage of Hurricane Ivan across the Southern United States starting on September 15, 2004, across the Gulf Coast states of Alabama and Florida as well as southern Georgia before ending in the Middle Atlantic Coast on September 18.
It crashed into Alabama in the inky darkness of 2 a.m. on Sept. 16 as a Category 3 hurricane. Ivan’s storm surge reached 10 to 15 feet from Destin, Florida to Mobile Bay. Perdido Key was leveled.
The inner eyewall dissipated as a 23-mile (37 km) outer eyewall became dominant, and concurrently the overall organization of the hurricane improved. [14] Ivan again attained major hurricane status as it approached the Lesser Antilles, and at 2130 UTC on September 7 the cyclone passed 7 miles (11 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of ...
However, even that number is eclipsed by Hurricane Beulah in 1967, Rita in 2005, Frances in 2004, and Ivan, which dropped 118 tornadoes in nine states in 2004 after making landfall in Alabama.
September 15–16 and September 22-23, 2004 – Around the time Hurricane Ivan's initial landfall in Alabama, the storm produced wind gusts as strong as 100 mph (160 km/h) at the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River. In Plaquemines Parish, several school and government building as well as about 100 mobile homes.