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MONTHLY TROPICAL WEATHER SUMMARY  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL  
8 AM WED DEC 1 1999  
  
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...  
  
THE 1999 HURRICANE SEASON HAD ABOVE-NORMAL ACTIVITY WITH TWELVE
NAMED TROPICAL CYCLONES...OF WHICH FOUR WERE TROPICAL STORMS AND
EIGHT WERE HURRICANES.  THIS COMPARES TO THE LONG-TERM AVERAGES OF
10 NAMED TROPICAL CYCLONES, 6 HURRICANES, AND 4 TROPICAL STORMS. 
TABLE 1 LISTS THESE TROPICAL CYCLONES ALONG WITH THEIR DATES...
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS...MINIMUM SEA LEVEL PRESSURES...U.S.
DOLLAR DAMAGES...AND DIRECT DEATHS.
  
FIVE OF THE EIGHT HURRICANES WERE MAJOR...CATEGORY THREE OR HIGHER
ON THE SAFFIR/SIMPSON SCALE...WITH WIND SPEEDS OF 111 MPH OR MORE. 
ALL FIVE OF THESE REACHED CATEGORY 4 STATUS...WITH WINDS OF AT LEAST
131 MPH.  THIS IS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF CATEGORY 4 HURRICANES IN A
SINGLE SEASON SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1886.  THE TOTAL ACTIVITY OVER
THE PAST FIVE YEARS...1995-1999...OF 41 HURRICANES AND 20 MAJOR
HURRICANES IS ALSO UNPRECEDENTED.  
  
HURRICANES BRET...FLOYD...AND IRENE MADE LANDFALLS ON THE U.S.  
MAINLAND AS CATEGORY 3...2...AND 1 HURRICANES...RESPECTIVELY.  IN
ADDITION...HARVEY MADE LANDFALL IN THE UNITED STATES AS A TROPICAL
STORM.  DENNIS PRODUCED NEAR-HURRICANE CONDITIONS ON THE U.S.
MAINLAND.  THERE WAS ONE ADDITIONAL U.S. HURRICANE LANDFALL IN THE
VIRGIN ISLANDS...LENNY.  

THE INLAND FLOODING FROM FLOYD WAS A DISASTER OF IMMENSE PROPORTIONS
IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES...PARTICULARLY IN NORTH CAROLINA.  THE
56 U.S. DIRECT DEATHS DUE TO FLOYD IS THE LARGEST HURRICANE DEATH
TOTAL SINCE AGNES KILLED 122 PERSONS IN 1972.  

THE BAHAMAS EXPERIENCED TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS FROM DENNIS AND  
HURRICANE CONDITIONS FROM FLOYD.  GERT BRIEFLY PRODUCED HURRICANE  
WINDS AT BERMUDA AND ALSO AFFECTED NEWFOUNDLAND.  CUBA EXPERIENCED 
TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS FROM IRENE.   TROPICAL STORM KATRINA  
MADE LANDFALL IN NICARAGUA.  LENNY PRODUCED UP TO CATEGORY 2
HURRICANE CONDITIONS OVER PORTIONS OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS
OF THE CARIBBEAN.  
  
LENNY WAS A RARE LATE-SEASON HURRICANE...THE FIRST CATEGORY 4
HURRICANE IN NOVEMBER SINCE GRETA IN 1956...THAT HAD AN UNUSUAL
EASTWARD TRACK THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN SEA.  LENNY WAS THE FIRST
HURRICANE TO STRIKE THE ISLANDS OF THE LESSER ANTILLES FROM THE
WEST.  
  
SUMMARY OF INDIVIDUAL STORMS...  
  
TROPICAL STORM ARLENE ORIGINATED FROM THE REMNANTS OF A FRONT ON  
JUNE 11TH, ABOUT 550 STATUTE MILES SOUTHEAST OF BERMUDA.  WIND  
SPEEDS REACHED A MAXIMUM OF 60 MPH ON THE 13TH AS THE STORM  
MOVED SLOWLY WESTWARD.  ARLENE PASSED SLIGHTLY MORE THAN 100 MILES
EAST OF BERMUDA ON THE 17TH WHILE WEAKENING AND MOVING SLOWLY
NORTHWARD.  THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT TO BERMUDA.  
 
HURRICANE BRET FORMED IN THE BAY OF CAMPECHE ON THE 19TH OF AUGUST.
IT MOVED SLOWLY NORTHWARD ACROSS THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO AND  
STRENGTHENED TO A 140-MPH HURRICANE ON THE 22ND WHILE APPROACHING 
THE SOUTH TEXAS COAST SOME 70 MILES EAST OF BROWNSVILLE.  BRET MADE
LANDFALL AT 0000 UTC ON THE 23RD ON PADRE ISLAND WITH 115-MPH WINDS.
THE AREAL EXTENT OF STRONG WINDS WAS SMALL AND BRET MADE LANDFALL IN
A SPARSELY-POPULATED REGION.  THERE WERE NO DEATHS REPORTED AND THE
TOTAL DAMAGE ESTIMATE IS 60 MILLION DOLLARS.  BRET WAS THE FIRST 
HURRICANE TO AFFECT SOUTH TEXAS SINCE HURRICANE ALLEN IN 1980.  
  
HURRICANE CINDY REMAINED IN THE EASTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH ATLANTIC 
OCEAN WITHOUT AFFECTING LAND.  CINDY FORMED NEAR THE CAPE VERDE  
ISLANDS ON AUGUST 19TH.  MOVING WEST TO WEST-NORTHWESTWARD...IT  
BECAME A HURRICANE ON THE 26TH AND REACHED ITS MAXIMUM INTENSITY OF
140 MPH ON THE 28TH.  CINDY GRADUALLY RECURVED ACROSS THE CENTRAL  
NORTH ATLANTIC OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND MERGED WITH AN  
EXTRATROPICAL LOW ON THE 31ST ABOUT 1000 MILES WEST OF THE AZORES. 
  
HURRICANE DENNIS FORMED OVER THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC ON AUGUST  
24TH...ABOUT 225 MILES EAST OF TURKS ISLAND AND THE SOUTHEASTERN  
BAHAMAS.  AFTER STRENGTHENING TO A HURRICANE ON THE 26TH...DENNIS  
PRODUCED NEAR-HURRICANE CONDITIONS AT ABACO ISLAND ON THE 28TH.  
WINDS INCREASED TO A PEAK OF 105 MPH LATER ON THE 28TH AND THIS
INTENSITY WAS MAINTAINED UNTIL EARLY ON THE 30TH WHEN THE  
HURRICANE WAS CENTERED ABOUT 115 MILES OFF THE SOUTHEAST U.S. COAST.

WHILE SLOWLY WEAKENING...THE HURRICANE MOVED TO WITHIN ABOUT 70
MILES SOUTH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST LATER ON THE 30TH.  DENNIS
WEAKENED TO A TROPICAL STORM ON 1 SEPTEMBER WHILE DRIFTING SLOWLY
AND ERRATICALLY ROUGHLY 100 MILES EAST OF CAPE HATTERAS.  DENNIS
MOVED SOUTHWARD AND THEN NORTHWESTWARD...MAKING LANDFALL IN NORTH
CAROLINA ON THE 4TH WITH WINDS TO 70 MPH.  AFTER MOVING
INLAND...DENNIS WAS ABSORBED BY AN EXTRATROPICAL LOW OVER NEW YORK
STATE ON 8 SEPTEMBER.  
  
THE FIRST PASS OF DENNIS ON THE 30TH PRODUCED TROPICAL STORM
CONDITIONS OVER COASTAL NORTH CAROLINA.  WINDS TO HURRICANE  
FORCE MAY HAVE OCCURRED ON THE OUTER BANKS AT THIS TIME.  RAINFALL 
TOTALS REACHED AS HIGH AS 19 INCHES OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH  
CAROLINA.  THESE RAINS HELPED SET THE STAGE FOR THE DISASTROUS
FLOODING FROM HURRICANE FLOYD A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER.  FOUR DEATHS
RELATED TO HIGH SURF CONDITIONS WERE REPORTED IN FLORIDA.  A TORNADO
IN HAMPTON, VIRGINIA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR SEVERAL SERIOUS INJURIES. 
THE DAMAGE ESTIMATE FOR NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA IS 157 MILLION
DOLLARS.  
  
TROPICAL STORM EMILY FORMED ABOUT 400 MILES EAST OF THE WINDWARD  
ISLANDS EARLY ON AUGUST 24TH.   EMILY MOVED NORTHWEST AND THEN  
NORTHWARD FOR A FEW DAYS...WITH ITS CENTER REMAINING AT LEAST 250
MILES EAST OF THE LESSER ANTILLES.  WINDS REACHED 50 MPH LATE ON  
THE 24TH...BUT FURTHER DEVELOPMENT WAS LIMITED BY THE LARGER AND 
STRONGER CIRCULATION OF HURRICANE CINDY...AND EMILY WAS ABSORBED BY 
CINDY ON THE 28TH.  
  
HURRICANE FLOYD FIRST BECAME A TROPICAL DEPRESSION ON SEPTEMBER 7TH
OVER THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN ABOUT 1000 MILES EAST OF THE 
LESSER ANTILLES.  THE STRENGTHENING TROPICAL CYCLONE MOVED ON A
GENERAL WEST-NORTHWEST HEADING FOR SEVERAL DAYS...AND REACHED ITS 
PEAK INTENSITY OF 155 MPH...A STRONG CATEGORY FOUR...ON THE 13TH  
WHILE CENTERED ABOUT 300 MILES EAST OF THE CENTRAL BAHAMAS.  THE EYE
OF FLOYD MOVED DIRECTLY OVER ELEUTHERA AND ABACO OF THE BAHAMAS ON
THE 14TH AS THE INTENSITY OF THE HURRICANE WAS FLUCTUATING BETWEEN
CATEGORY THREE AND FOUR.  AS FLOYD MOVED THROUGH THE NORTHWEST
BAHAMA ISLANDS IT BEGAN TO PARALLEL THE SOUTHEAST U.S. COAST AS IT
CURVED TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHWEST AND THEN TOWARD THE NORTH ON THE
15TH.  GRADUALLY WEAKENING...FLOYD PASSED JUST OVER 100 MILES EAST
OF THE FLORIDA COAST.  THE HURRICANE MADE LANDFALL ON THE 16TH NEAR
CAPE FEAR NORTH CAROLINA WITH CATEGORY TWO WINDS OF 105 MPH.  AFTER 
CROSSING EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA...FLOYD WEAKENED TO A
TROPICAL STORM.  ITS CENTER MOVED OFFSHORE ALONG THE COASTS OF THE
DELMARVA PENINSULA AND NEW JERSEY...AND THEN ON THE 17TH FLOYD MOVED
OVER LONG ISLAND AND NEW ENGLAND WHERE IT BECAME EXTRATROPICAL.  
 
RAINFALL TOTALS FROM FLOYD WERE HIGH.  THESE RAINS COMBINED WITH
SATURATED GROUND WATER LEVELS FROM PREVIOUS RAIN EVENTS...INCLUDING
HURRICANE DENNIS...TO PRODUCE AN INLAND FLOOD DISASTER.  IN ADDITION
TO ONE PERSON KILLED IN THE BAHAMAS...THERE WERE 56 DEATHS IN THE
UNITED STATES...MOSTLY DUE TO DROWNING FROM FRESH WATER FLOODS. 
THIS MAKES FLOYD THE DEADLIEST U.S. HURRICANE SINCE AGNES OF 1972. 
RAINFALL TOTALS WERE AS HIGH AS 15 TO 20 INCHES OVER PORTIONS OF
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA...12 TO 14 INCHES OVER PORTIONS
OF MARYLAND...DELAWARE...AND NEW JERSEY...4 TO 7 INCHES OVER EASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...AND UP TO 11 INCHES OVER
PORTIONS OF NEW ENGLAND.  STORM SURGE WATER LEVELS REACHED AS HIGH
AS 9 TO 10 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS ALONG THE NORTH CAROLINA
COAST.  TOTAL DAMAGE ESTIMATES RANGE FROM THREE TO OVER SIX BILLION
DOLLARS.  
  
FLOYD PASSED RELATIVELY CLOSE TO THE ENTIRE U.S. EAST COAST...
REQUIRING HURRICANE WARNINGS FROM SOUTH FLORIDA TO MASSACHUSETTS...
EXCLUDING THE NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA...WHICH WAS UNDER A 
TROPICAL STORM WARNING.  THE LAST HURRICANE TO REQUIRE WARNINGS  
FOR AS LARGE A STRETCH OF COASTLINE WAS HURRICANE DONNA IN 1960.  IN
PROBABLY THE LARGEST EVACUATION IN U.S. HISTORY...AN ESTIMATED TWO
MILLION PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED FOR FLOYD.
  
HURRICANE GERT FORMED ON SEPTEMBER 11TH AS A TROPICAL DEPRESSION IN
THE FAR EASTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN.  MOVING TO THE WEST-
NORTHWEST...IT BECAME A TROPICAL STORM ON THE 12TH AND A HURRICANE
ON THE 13TH.  GERT STRENGTHENED TO A 150-MPH HURRICANE ON THE 16TH
WHILE LOCATED ABOUT 575 MILES EAST OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS.  WHILE
BEGINNING A GRADUAL WEAKENING PROCESS...GERT RECURVED NORTHWARD OVER
THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS IT MOVED ACROSS THE CENTRAL NORTH ATLANTIC.

THE CENTER PASSED ABOUT 130 MILES EAST OF BERMUDA ON THE 21ST...AND
BERMUDA BRIEFLY REPORTED 75-80 MPH SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS.  GERT
MOVED TO NEAR SOUTHEASTERN NEWFOUNDLAND ON THE 23RD...WHERE
GALE-FORCE WINDS WERE EXPERIENCED...AND THEN BECAME EXTRATROPICAL.  
  
TROPICAL STORM HARVEY FORMED IN THE GULF OF MEXICO FROM A TROPICAL 
WAVE.  IT BECAME A TROPICAL DEPRESSION ON SEPTEMBER 19TH OVER THE  
CENTRAL GULF AND MOVED TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST.  IN SPITE OF
UNFAVORABLE WINDS ALOFT...HARVEY STRENGTHENED AND BECAME A 60-MPH
TROPICAL STORM WHILE CENTERED ABOUT 250 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF
TAMPA FLORIDA.  TAKING AN ABRUPT TURN TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST...HARVEY
MOVED INLAND ON THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COAST ON THE 21ST AND PRODUCED
TROPICAL STORM WINDS OVER PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA KEYS AND EXTREME
SOUTH FLORIDA.  HARVEY WAS ABSORBED BY A FRONTAL SYSTEM ON THE 22ND
JUST EAST OF SOUTH FLORIDA.  
  
HURRICANE IRENE FORMED FROM A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE  
SOUTHWEST CARIBBEAN ON OCTOBER 13TH.  IT BECAME A TROPICAL STORM ON
THE SAME DAY AND MOVED NORTHWARD ACROSS WESTERN CUBA ON THE 14TH  
WITH 70-MPH WINDS.  IT BECAME A 75-MPH HURRICANE ON THE 15TH AND  
MOVED NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA.  IRENE DUMPED 10 TO 20  
INCHES OF RAIN ALONG ITS PATH, RESULTING IN CONSIDERABLE FRESH-  
WATER FLOODING.  THE U.S. DAMAGE ESTIMATE IS 800 MILLION DOLLARS 
...ALL IN FLORIDA...AND THERE WERE EIGHT INDIRECT DEATHS FROM  
ELECTROCUTION AND DROWNING.  
  
IRENE MOVED FROM FLORIDA INTO THE ATLANTIC ON THE 16TH.  IT MOVED
NORTHWARD TOWARD THE CAROLINAS...BUT TURNED NORTHEASTWARD ON THE
17TH.  IT BRUSHED THE OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA WITH TROPICAL
STORM FORCE WINDS ON THE 18TH WHILE INTENSIFYING RAPIDLY TO 110 MPH.

IT ALSO DROPPED FIVE TO TEN INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH
AND NORTH CAROLINA.  CONTINUING NORTHEASTWARD...IRENE WAS ABSORBED
BY AN EXTRATROPICAL LOW NEAR NEWFOUNDLAND.  THE COMBINED SYSTEM
BECAME AN INTENSE EXTRATROPICAL STORM OVER THE FAR NORTH ATLANTIC
OCEAN.  
  
HURRICANE JOSE DEVELOPED FROM A TROPICAL DEPRESSION THAT FORMED
ABOUT 700 MILES EAST OF THE WINDWARD ISLANDS ON OCTOBER 17TH.  AS
THE SYSTEM MOVED WEST-NORTHWESTWARD TO NORTHWESTWARD IT QUICKLY
BECAME A TROPICAL STORM AND THEN A HURRICANE ON THE 19TH...WHEN IT
WAS LOCATED 150 MILES EAST OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS.  JOSE MOVED OVER
THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS ON THE 20TH AND VERY EARLY ON THE
21ST...WITH THE CENTER PASSING OVER ANTIGUA AND NEAR ST. MAARTEN. 
ITS MAXIMUM WINDS REACHED 100 MPH. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 80 AND 75 MPH
WERE REPORTED FROM ANTIGUA AND ST. MAARTEN...RESPECTIVELY.  
JOSE WEAKENED TO A TROPICAL STORM AND MOVED ACROSS THE BRITISH  
VIRGIN ISLANDS ON THE MORNING OF THE 21ST.  AFTER PASSING WITHIN 50
MILES NORTHEAST OF THE EASTERN TIP OF PUERTO RICO...THE STORM TURNED
NORTH-NORTHEASTWARD AND MOVED ACROSS THE CENTRAL NORTH ATLANTIC FOR
THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. IT BRIEFLY RE-ATTAINED HURRICANE STATUS ON
THE 24TH WHILE PASSING SOME 300 MILES EAST OF BERMUDA.  JOSE LOST
TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS ON THE 25TH SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES SOUTH OF
NEWFOUNDLAND.  
  
KATRINA WAS A SHORT-LIVED TROPICAL STORM.  IT FORMED IN THE
SOUTHWEST CARIBBEAN WITHIN A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AND  
BECAME A TROPICAL DEPRESSION ON OCTOBER 28TH.  ITS WINDS BRIEFLY
REACHED MINIMAL TROPICAL STORM STRENGTH LATE ON THE 29TH AS IT MOVED
SLOWLY NORTHWESTWARD AND CROSSED THE COAST OF NICARAGUA NEAR PUERTO 
CABEZAS.  FOR THE REMAINDER OF ITS FOUR DAYS OF EXISTENCE...KATRINA 
WAS A TROPICAL DEPRESSION MOVING ON A GENERALLY NORTHWESTWARD  
TRACK ACROSS NICARAGUA...HONDURAS...AND THE YUCATAN PENINSULA.  
THE DEPRESSION DISSIPATED ON NOVEMBER 1ST...AS IT WAS ABSORBED BY A
COLD FRONT JUST NORTH OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA.  ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE
BEEN NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE OR DEATH...IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 10 TO 15
INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AMERICA.  
 
HURRICANE LENNY FORMED OVER THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA WITHIN  
A BROAD TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE.  AFTER SEVERAL DAYS OF SLOW 
ORGANIZING AND AIMLESS DRIFTING...THE ORIGINATING AREA OF DISTURBED
WEATHER BECAME A TROPICAL DEPRESSION ON THE NOVEMBER 13TH...NOT FAR
FROM THE CAYMAN ISLANDS.  MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD AND THEN
SOUTHEASTWARD... LENNY BECAME A TROPICAL STORM ON THE 14TH...
CENTERED ABOUT 175 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JAMAICA.  LENNY MOVED MOSTLY
EASTWARD ACROSS THE CENTRAL CARIBBEAN ON THE 15TH AND 16TH AND
INTENSIFIED...BECOMING A HURRICANE ON THE 15TH ABOUT 140 MILES SOUTH
OF JAMAICA.  THEN TURNING NORTHEASTWARD...LENNY REACHED ITS PEAK
INTENSITY OF 155 MPH ON THE 17TH WHILE PASSING JUST SOUTH OF ST.
CROIX IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.  LENNY WAS GRADUALLY WEAKENING
WHEN ITS CENTER PASSED VERY SLOWLY OVER ST. MAARTEN ON THE 17TH. 
MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD AND AWAY FROM THE LEEWARD ISLANDS...LENNY
WEAKENED TO A TROPICAL STORM ON THE 20TH.  THE MOTION TURNED AGAIN
TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AND THEN EASTWARD...AND LENNY DISSIPATED ON THE
23RD ABOUT 625 MILES EAST OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS.  
  
THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS LIKELY EXPERIENCED CATEGORY 2 HURRICANE 
CONDITIONS...WINDS OF 96 TO 110 MPH.  THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
RECEIVED TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS.  CATEGORY 1 HURRICANE WINDS WERE
MEASURED AT ST. MAARTEN AND IT IS LIKELY THAT CATEGORY 2 WIND SPEEDS
OCCURRED AT THIS LOCATION.  OTHER ISLANDS AFFECTED BY LENNY INCLUDE
ANGUILLA...BARBUDA...ST. KITTS...NEVIS...AND MONSERRAT.  FOR MANY
LOCATIONS HEAVY RAINS OVER SEVERAL DAYS WAS THE PRIMARY IMPACT OF
LENNY.  THE APPROACH FROM THE WEST CAUSED UNPRECEDENTED WAVE AND
STORM SURGE DAMAGE TO WESTWARD-FACING HARBORS.    
  
THERE WAS ONE SIGNIFICANT TROPICAL DEPRESSION DURING 1999...TROPICAL
DEPRESSION ELEVEN.  THIS POORLY ORGANIZED SYSTEM CONTRIBUTED TO
WIDESPREAD AND PROLONGED HEAVY RAINS OVER SEVERAL DAYS IN EARLY
OCTOBER OVER THE MEXICAN STATES OF PUEBLA...TABASCO...AND VERACRUZ. 
PRESS REPORTS INDICATE THAT THE RESULTANT FLOODING WAS RESPONSIBLE
FOR ABOUT 400 DEATHS...ALTHOUGH IT IS UNKNOWN HOW MANY OF THESE
CASUALTIES WERE A DIRECT RESULT OF THE DEPRESSION.

LAWRENCE/AVILA/BEVEN/FRANKLIN/GUINEY/PASCH  

  
TABLE 1.  1999 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON STATISTICS  
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NAME        DATES     MAX. 1-MIN  MIN. SLP        U.S.      DIRECT
                      WIND (MPH)    (MB)         DAMAGE     DEATHS
                                              ($MILLIONS) 
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TS ARLENE   11-18 JUN       60      1008  
H  BRET     18-25 AUG      140       944              60  
H  CINDY    19-31 AUG      140       944  
H  DENNIS   24 AUG-5 SEP   105       962             157         4
TS EMILY    24-28 AUG       50      1004  
H  FLOYD    7-17 SEP       155       921       3000-6000        57
H  GERT     11-23 SEP      150       930  
TS HARVEY   19-22 SEP       60       994              15  
H  IRENE    13-19 OCT      110       958             800  
H  JOSE     17-25 OCT      100       979                         2
TS KATRINA  28 OCT-1 NOV    40       999  
H  LENNY    13-22 NOV      155       933             330        13


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