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The name Gabrielle has been used for nine tropical cyclones worldwide, six in the Atlantic Ocean, one in the South-West Indian Ocean and two in the Australian region. In the Atlantic: Hurricane Gabrielle (1989) – reached Category 4 strength and caused large ocean swells on the East Coast of the United States.
It became a subtropical storm on November 4 about 890 mi (1,430 km) south of Cape Race, Newfoundland. Operationally, the storm was considered a non-tropical low, and the National Hurricane Center did not begin issuing advisories until it became a tropical cyclone. It moved slowly northward as convection organized into a ring around the center.
Hurricane Gabrielle was a North Atlantic hurricane that caused flooding in both Florida and Newfoundland in September 2001. It developed in the Gulf of Mexico on the same day as the September 11 attacks; after the attacks, flights were canceled nationwide for two days, and when Gabrielle struck Florida on September 14, it caused a day of additional cancellations.
Hurricane Gabrielle was a powerful tropical cyclone that caused nine fatalities in the United States and Canada, despite remaining hundreds of miles offshore. The tenth tropical cyclone, seventh named storm, fifth hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 1989 Atlantic hurricane season, Gabrielle developed on August 30 from a tropical wave near the west coast of Africa.
A look at some of the recent — and most destructive — storms the region has faced.
Gracie quickly strengthened and reached its peak of 140 mph (230 km/h) winds on September 29, but cooler air and land interaction weakened it slightly to a 130 mph (215 km/h) Category 4 major hurricane at the time of its landfall at 1625 UTC over St. Helena Sound near the south end of Edisto Island in South Carolina.
And a lull is exactly what South Carolina has been in for the last few years. The last time a hurricane hit the state was Isaias in 2020, and the Category 1 storm produced relatively little damage ...
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