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  2. Accumulated cyclone energy - Wikipedia

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    A Category 4 hurricane which lasted for four weeks, this single storm had an ACE higher than many whole Atlantic storm seasons. Other Atlantic storms with high ACEs include Hurricane Ivan in 2004 , with an ACE of 70.4, Hurricane Irma in 2017 , with an ACE of 64.9, the Great Charleston Hurricane in 1893 , with an ACE of 63.5, Hurricane Isabel in ...

  3. TNT equivalent - Wikipedia

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    A type Ia supernova explosion gives off 1– 2 × 10 44 joules of energy, which is about 2.4–4.8 hundred billion yottatons (24–48 octillion (2.4– 4.8 × 10 28) megatons) of TNT, equivalent to the explosive force of a quantity of TNT over a trillion (10 12) times the mass of the planet Earth.

  4. Tropical cyclone intensity scales - Wikipedia

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    The scale used for a particular tropical cyclone depends on what basin the system is located in; with for example the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale and the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scales both used in the Western Hemisphere. All of the scales rank tropical cyclones using their maximum sustained winds, which are either ...

  5. List of tropical cyclone records - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Should we add a Category 6 to the hurricane scale? Why ... - AOL

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    In modern record-keeping, North Carolina has never sustained a direct hit from a Category 5 hurricane, but has seen death and destruction from many storms that, based only on their category, might ...

  7. Nuclear weapon yield - Wikipedia

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    Log–log plot comparing the yield (in kilotonnes) and mass (in kilograms) of various nuclear weapons developed by the United States.. The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated, usually expressed as a TNT equivalent (the standardized equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene ...

  8. Why Hurricane Milton became so intense so fast — and ... - AOL

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    Hurricane Milton is set to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday in the Tampa, Fla., region after undergoing a rapid intensification this week that saw it become the third-fastest storm ...

  9. List of United States hurricanes - Wikipedia

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    The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...