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With six hurricanes reaching at least Category 3 intensity, 2004 also had the most major hurricanes since 1996, a record which would be surpassed in 2005. [20] Florida was directly impacted by four major hurricanes during the season – Hurricane Charley , Frances , Ivan , and Jeanne .
The city also recorded a 5.6 ft (1.7 m) storm surge, which was the third-highest water level there after Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and the 1926 Miami hurricane. Sally dropped torrential rainfall across where it moved ashore, reaching 22.5 in (570 mm) near Pensacola.
The 2004 Atlantic hurricane season was notable as one of the deadliest and most costly Atlantic hurricane seasons on record. It officially began on June 1, 2004, and ended on November 30, although storm activity continued into December.
In 2004, hurricane forecasting was rapidly improving, said Max Mayfield, the director of the National Hurricane Center from 2000-07. ... It was the strongest hurricane to hit Florida since Cat 5 ...
Post photographers captured the destruction of the 2004 Mean Season: the fallen trees, the blown-off roofs, the agony. And the sand. So much sand.
Hurricane-wise the 1940s were among the state's busiest decades: 11 hurricanes struck from 1944–50, six of them major, including five Category 4 hurricanes in South Florida. Storms catalyzed development: impacts radiated societally, broaching complex political and socioeconomic topics, and lead to epochal changes such as flood control and ...
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.
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 was the third named storm, the second hurricane, and the second major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.