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Smallest tropical cyclone with hurricane strength on record: Hurricane Oscar - gale-force winds extended 35 mi (55 km) from storm center Smallest tropical cyclone eye on record: Hurricane Wilma – 2005 – diameter 2.3 miles (3.7 km)
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
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 uniqueness of a churning hurricane's shape and size can mean different threats for those in a storm's path.
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] The longest-lasting hurricane was the 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, which lasted for 27 days and 18 hours as a tropical cyclone. [53]
Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) [1] [2] was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds ...
Hurricane Lee, a Category 1 storm, is massive. Shown is an image of Hurricane Lee's approximate size from the National Hurricane Center in Miami on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023.
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 ...