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On October 4, with winds of 150 mph (240 km/h), Matthew made landfall in Haiti near Les Anglais. Weakening slightly, Matthew then made landfall near Maisí in Cuba. The storm started to accelerate, passingly through The Bahamas. Matthew then moved parallel to the coast of Florida, coming within just 20 miles (32 km) or so from coming ashore.
Around 15:00 UTC on October 8, the hurricane made landfall at Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, near McClellanville, South Carolina, with winds of 85 mph (137 km/h) and a central pressure of 963 mbar (28.4 inHg), which made it the strongest to strike the United States in terms of pressure since Irene in 2011, and the first hurricane to make ...
A more rapid weakening phase took place and Matthew weakened to a Category 1 hurricane just before making landfall at the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina with sustained winds of 85 mph (135 km/h) and a central pressure of 963 mbar (28.44 inHg) – making it the most intense hurricane (by central pressure) to strike the ...
State of emergencies are in effect in Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina and millions of coastal residents were warned to get ready to evacuate. Hurricane Matthew expected to barrel to ...
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The strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall on the state was the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, which crossed the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 millibars (26.3 inHg); it is also the strongest hurricane on record to strike the United States. Out of the ten most intense landfalling United States hurricanes, four struck Florida at peak strength.
It caused the deaths of 408 people — most of them World War I veterans working in the Florida Keys, where the storm made its first landfall. According to NOAA, the storm caused damages estimated ...
Hurricane Andrew making landfall. August 24, 1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall on Homestead, just south of Miami, as a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 165 mph (265 km/h). [64] The winds destroy 25,524 homes and damage 101,241 others in southern Florida, leaving up to one-quarter million people temporarily homeless.