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The 1938 New England Hurricane (also referred to as the Great Long Island - New England Hurricane and the Long Island Express Hurricane) [1][2] was one of the deadliest and most destructive tropical cyclones to strike the United States. The storm formed near the coast of Africa on September 9, becoming a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir ...
The 1938 Atlantic hurricane season produced fifteen tropical cyclones, of which nine strengthened into tropical storms. Four storms intensified into hurricanes. Two of those four became major hurricanes, the equivalent of a Category 3 or greater storm on the modern day Saffir–Simpson scale. The hurricane season officially began on June 16 and ...
This hurricane is often considered to be the most intense hurricane to hit New England since its European colonization. The only other storm of a similar magnitude was the 1938 hurricane. [10] August 23, 1683 – A tropical cyclone hit Connecticut and caused tremendous flooding.
An unnamed hurricane of 1938 hit farther west on Sept. 21, causing immense damage on Long Island and coastal New England. Colloquially called the Long Island Express, it is considered the worst ...
Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn, seen here in a still from the 1940 film 'The Philadelphia Story,' had a brush with death in 1938 when a powerful unnamed hurricane slammed parts of Long Island ...
The second Hurricane Alice in 1954 was the latest forming tropical storm and hurricane, reaching these intensities on December 30 and 31, respectively. Hurricane Alice and Tropical Storm Zeta were the only two storms to exist in two calendar years – the former from 1954 to 1955 and the latter from 2005 to 2006. [ 14 ]
September 17, 1938 – The 1938 New England hurricane is initially—but erroneously—forecast to strike Florida, with storm warnings issued from Jacksonville through Key West. [ 54 ] June 16, 1939 – The first storm of the season hits near Mobile, Alabama , with its outer rainbands dropping heavy rainfall across Florida and killing one child ...
Tracks of hurricanes that made landfall between 1938 and 1991. NOTE: This entry was written before Post-Tropical Storm Lee made landfall in Nova Scotia with 70 mph sustained winds on Sept. 16, 2023.