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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 ...
List of New Mexico hurricanes; List of New York hurricanes; List of North Carolina hurricanes. List of North Carolina hurricanes (pre-1900) List of North Carolina hurricanes (1900–1949) List of North Carolina hurricanes (1950–1979) List of North Carolina hurricanes (1980–1999) List of North Carolina hurricanes (2000–present) List of ...
Hurricane Opal, the most intense Category 4 hurricane recorded, intensified to reach a minimum pressure of 916 mbar (hPa; 27.05 inHg), [54] a pressure typical of Category 5 hurricanes. [55] Nonetheless, the pressure remains too high to list Opal as one of the ten strongest Atlantic tropical cyclones. [ 11 ]
A Category 5 Atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator. They are among the strongest tropical cyclones that can form on Earth, having 1-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 137 knots (254 km/h ; 158 mph ; 70 m ...
Several recorded Category 5 hurricanes reached that intensity multiple times during their lifetime. Hurricanes Allen in 1980, Isabel in 2003 and Ivan in 2004 each soared to Category 5 intensity ...
List of Category 1 Atlantic hurricanes; List of Category 2 Atlantic hurricanes; List of Category 3 Atlantic hurricanes; List of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes; List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes; List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes
This category also includes articles on North Atlantic tropical storms. For Atlantic hurricanes by year, see: Category: Atlantic hurricane seasons. For a list of notable North Atlantic hurricanes, see: List of notable tropical cyclones (North Atlantic basin).
The scale separates hurricanes into five different categories based on wind. The U.S. National Hurricane Center classifies hurricanes of Category 3 and above as major hurricanes. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center classifies typhoons of 150 mph (240 km/h) or greater (strong Category 4 and Category 5) as super typhoons.