Famous Cat 5 Hurricanes

Rita the third category 5 hurricane of the season was a destructive and deadly hurricane that devastated portions of southeastern texas and southwestern louisiana and significantly impacted the florida keys.

Funny cat hd wallpaper kittens for sale wolverhampton. 70 msthe united states national hurricane center. The season with the most category 5 hurricanes was in 2005 which had four. The others were okeechobee in 1928 karen in 1962 camille in 1969 andrew in 1992 michael in 2018 and yutu in 2018 which had a landfalling pressure of 931 mbar 932 mbar 900 mbar 922 mbar 919 mbar and 900 mbar respectively.

Hurricane katrinaconsidered among the worst storms in us. It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a category 5 hurricane on the saffir simpson hurricane scale. Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph 205 kmh near buras triumph louisiana on aug.

A category 5 hurricane is a hurricane that winds get over 156 mph. Historydid reach category 5 status in august 2005 but it downgraded to category 3 by the time it made landfall in louisiana and. It was at the time the costliest tropical cyclone on record and is now tied with 2017s hurricane harveythe storm was the third major hurricane of the 2005 atlantic hurricane season and the.

A tropical wave and the remnants of an old front combined to produce and area of disturbed weather on 16 september. Category 5 hurricanes are tropical cyclones that reach category 5 intensity on the saffirsimpson hurricane scalethey are by definition the strongest hurricanes that can form on planet earth. A category 5 atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches category 5 intensity on the saffirsimpson hurricane wind scale within the atlantic ocean to the north of the equatorthey are amongst the strongest tropical cyclones that can form on earth and have 1 minute sustained wind speeds of over 137 knots 254 kmh.

Category 4 hurricanes are tropical cyclones that reach category 4 intensity on the saffirsimpson hurricane scalecategory 4 hurricanes that later attained category 5 strength are not included in this list. They are rare in the northeastern pacific ocean and generally form only once every several years. One of the most famous hurricanes in recent decades hurricane andrew back in 1992 was a category 5 hurricane when it hit florida.

There are no records of a category 5 hurricane before 1900. The atlantic basin includes the open waters of the atlantic ocean the caribbean sea and the gulf of mexicocategory 4 is the second highest hurricane classification category on the. 28 2005 then the lousianamississippi border with winds of 120 mph 193 kmh.

In general category 5s form in clusters in single years. Hurricane katrina was a large category 5 atlantic hurricane which caused over 1200 deaths and 125 billion in damage in august 2005 particularly in the city of new orleans and the surrounding areas.