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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.
The Bhola cyclone is the deadliest tropical cyclone on record and also one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history. A comparable number of people died as a result of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake , 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake , but because of uncertainty in the number of deaths in all four disasters ...
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: Bhola cyclone in East Pakistan [7] [8] Deadliest tropical cyclone season
Tropical cyclone November 4 – 7 1997 3,123 Tropical Storm Linda: Vietnam, Thailand Tropical cyclone, Flood November 1 – 9 1998 11,374 Hurricane Mitch: Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico Tropical cyclone October 22 – November 9 1999 10,000-30,000 Vargas tragedy: Venezuela Mudslide, Flood December 14 – 16 2000
Helene was the deadliest tropical cyclone from wind-related deaths since at least 1963, Brennan said. "It was just the scale of the event, and the size of the hurricane wind field,” with winds ...
Helene marks the deadliest tropical cyclone to hit South Carolina since Hurricane Hugo killed 35 people in 1989. The mega-storm also broke records in Atlanta, Georgia — which recorded 11.12 ...
The 10 costliest Atlantic hurricanes as of January 2023.. As of November 2024, there have been 1,745 tropical cyclones of at least tropical storm intensity, 971 at hurricane intensity, and 338 at major hurricane intensity within the Atlantic Ocean since 1851, the first Atlantic hurricane season to be included in the official Atlantic tropical cyclone record. [1]
The 10 deadliest weather events of the last 20 years, which have all been worsened by climate change are: – 2007: Cyclone Sidr, Bangladesh, which caused 4,234 deaths; – 2008: Cyclone Nargis ...