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Retired Atlantic hurricanes

  • Hurricane KatrinaShorter steel pilings were a key cause of the levee failures in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
  • Hurricane IrmaHurricane Irma was the most searched term on Google in 2017, both in the United States and across the whole world. Soon after it struck, people coined a new word to describe the wreckage: Irmageddon. By the time the storm dissolved over…
  • Hurricane HeleneHurricane Helene killed at least 252 people in the Southeastern United States in late September 2024 and caused an estimated $78.7 billion in damage. It came ashore on Florida's Gulf coast, yet many of its victims died in mountain valleys…
  • Hurricane IanHurricane Ian made landfall in Southwest Florida in September 2022, and even its peak strength took a post-season review to pin down. Near that peak, a NOAA weather drone measured wind gusts reaching 216 mph. Few Atlantic storms have been…
  • Hurricane MariaHurricane Maria reached the island nation of Dominica at a quarter past nine on the evening of the 18th of September 2017. It was a Category 5 storm, and it was the first hurricane of that strength ever recorded striking the island. Two…
  • Hurricane HarveyHurricane Harvey left a measurement of 60.58 inches of rain in Nederland, Texas. No other tropical cyclone in the United States has ever dropped more water on a single place. In late August 2017, the storm settled over the eastern part of…
  • Hurricane MiltonHurricane Milton produced computer forecasts so aggressive that a National Hurricane Center forecaster singled them out. Eric Blake described the guidance as "bullish as I've seen in this part of the basin." That was in early October 2024,…
  • Hurricane AndrewHurricane Andrew struck South Florida in August 1992, and for a moment an instrument at a house in Perrine recorded a wind gust of 212 mph. Then the house and the instrument were destroyed. Later, engineers at Virginia Polytechnic…
  • Hurricane SandyHurricane Sandy, unofficially called Superstorm Sandy, spread tropical-storm-force winds across 1150 miles. No Atlantic hurricane on record has been wider. It ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States…
  • Hurricane MelissaHurricane Melissa tied Hurricane Allen as the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded by sustained wind. Both storms reached 165 knots, and no other Atlantic hurricane has ever matched that figure. In late October 2025, Melissa carried…

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