Learn More. The hurricane season has been an active season, to say the least. Many comparisons have been made to the season which was not only active, but also had some interesting elements to it. The year brought us 28 tropical or subtropical storms and, like this year, involved the Greek alphabet in naming storms.
In July, Emily reached peak intensity in the Caribbean Sea, becoming the first Category 5 hurricane of the season, later weakening and striking Mexico twice.
Katrina reached peak winds over the Gulf of Mexico, then weakened by the time it made landfall along the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Katrina was devastating: Its storm surge crippled New Orleans for weeks and devastated the Mississippi coastline.
Katrina became the costliest U. December Epsilon was a hurricane for five days, making it the longest lived December hurricane on record. January Zeta was the longest lived January storm. January had the greatest number of named storm days.
Earliest storm formation records Earliest formation of a season's 4thth storms Earliest formation of a season's 13thth storms Individual Storm Records Katrina's pressure at landfall was mb. This is the third lowest pressure recorded at landfall. Only the Labor Day storm mb and Camile, mb had lower pressures. Wilma set the record for lowest pressure ever measured in the Atlantic Basin. Wilma was the fastest deepening hurricane ever on record in the Atlantic Basin. In 6 hours, Wilma deepened 54mb.
In 12 hours, Wilma deepened 83mb, and in 24 hours, Wilma deepened 97mb. These totals were taken from observations from 12Z, October 18th to 12Z, October 19th. Data on this record goes back to Wilma came in second for the fastest deepening tropical cyclone ever globally. Typhoon Forrest in the Western Pacific deepened mb in 24 hours. Wilma had the greatest change in wind speed ever recorded in any tropical system. In 24 hours winds increased 95 knots. Hurricane Vince was the furthest north and east that a storm had ever developed in the Atlantic basin.
Sources Data for records was compiled based on observations from the hurricane season, data from the National Hurricane Center , The Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory , and Colorado State University. Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. Follow us on YouTube. Disclaimer Information Quality Help Glossary. But Katrina was only one of a record-breaking 28 named storms that disastrous year. Nothing like that hyperactive season has occurred since.
The USA's remarkable year "lucky streak" without a major hurricane is the longest since a seven-year lull in the s, said hurricane expert Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University. The 28 named tropical storms and hurricanes that formed a decade ago shattered the previous record of 21 named storms in the Atlantic, set in , according to the Weather Channel.
A tropical storm has winds of mph; a hurricane has winds of 74 mph and higher. Other weather records were set that year: most hurricanes, 15; and a record six of them hit the USA. Four of those that hit the USA were "major" hurricanes, meaning a Category 3 or stronger with winds of at least mph, the Climate Prediction Center said.
There were so many storms that the National Hurricane Center ran out of names.
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