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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 ...
Deadliest United States hurricanes Rank Hurricane Season Fatalities 1 4 "Galveston" 1900: 8,000–12,000 2 4 "San Ciriaco" 1899: 3,400 3 4 Maria 2017: 2,982 4 5 "Okeechobee"
Preceding Wilma is Hurricane Gilbert, which had also held the record for most intense Atlantic hurricane for 17 years. [62] The 1935 Labor Day hurricane , with a pressure of 892 mbar (hPa; 26.34 inHg), is the third strongest Atlantic hurricane and the strongest documented tropical cyclone prior to 1950. [ 11 ]
Hurricane Michael. Year: 2018. Death Toll: 59. Financial Impact: ~$25 billion. Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle as a Category 5, making it one of the strongest hurricanes to make ...
This is a list of the costliest Atlantic hurricanes, with US$1 billion in property damage, broadly capturing the severity of the damage each tropical cyclone has caused. The list includes tropical storms, a tropical cyclone with a peak 1-minute maximum sustained wind in the range of 39–73 mph (63–118 km/h), placing them below the 74 mph ...
The deadliest hurricanes, based on National Hurricane Center information, are listed below by their rank, name, year and number of deaths. Katrina - 2005, 1,392 Audrey - 1957, 416
The Sunshine State tops the list at No. 1, tallying 120 hurricanes (37 were Category 3 through Category 5). Two of them − Hurricane Michael in October of 2018 and Hurricane Andrew in August of ...
A collage of the ten deadliest tropical cyclones worldwide since 1990 This is a list of the deadliest tropical cyclones , including all known storms that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths. There were at least 76 tropical cyclones in the 20th century with a death toll of 1,000 or more, including the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history.