Hurricane Info

by Bryan Norcross
MIAMI (CBS4 News/AP) ― Turns out -- 2005's Atlantic hurricane season had one more hurricane than we thought! Tropical Storm Cindy -- the third named storm -- has been upgraded. That puts the 2005 Atlantic hurricane count at 15.

Forecasters re-examining radar data from Slidell, La., found that a small area of sustained winds had reached 75 mph -- just above the 74 mph-threshold for a hurricane, National Hurricane Center forecasters said Thursday.

Cindy made landfall on July 5, causing an estimated $160 million in insured damage along the Gulf Coast, but it paled in comparison to Katrina, which became the costliest hurricane in U.S. history and one of the deadliest.

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season had already surpassed the previous record for named storms and hurricanes. Previously, the 12 hurricanes recorded in 1969 had been the most since record keeping began.

The hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30.

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CINDY
-- Tropical Storm Cindy has been upgraded to a hurricane, putting the 2005 Atlantic hurricane count at 15.
-- It was the third named storm of last year's record hurricane season.
-- Cindy made landfall on July fifth, causing an estimated 160 million dollars in insured damage along the Gulf Coast.
-- Forecasters re-examining radar data from Slidell, Louisiana, found that a small area of sustained winds had reached 75 miles per hour, just above the threshold for a hurricane.
-- The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season had already surpassed the previous record for named storms and hurricanes.
-- Previously, the 12 hurricanes recorded in 1969 had been the most since record keeping began.

ZETA
-- Tropical Storm Zeta weakened to a depression out in the Atlantic.
-- Zeta popped up weeks after the Atlantic storm season officially ended November 30th.
-- It counts as the 27th storm in last year's record-breaking season and is only the second storm in history to survive into a new year.
-- Only 1955's Alice did it before.

EPSILON
-- Tropical Storm Epsilon was the 26th named storm and 14th hurricane of the record-breaking Atlantic storm season.
-- Epsilon was only the fifth hurricane to form in December in more than 150 years of record-keeping.

DELTA
-- Delta was the 25th named tropical storm.
-- Forecasters say it lost the characteristics of a tropical storm November 29th and became extratropical, which means it gets energy from the collision of warm and cold fronts.

GAMMA
-- Gamma was the 24th named storm.
-- It weakened into a tropical depression November 21 after killing 11 people in Honduras and three in Belize.

BETA
-- The formation of Hurricane Beta in late October brought the season's storm total to a new record.
-- Beta was hurricane number 13 for the season.
-- It was season's 23rd tropical storm, the most since record keeping began in 1851.

ALPHA
-- Alpha became a tropical depression October 24th.
-- It was was formed south of the Dominican Republic on October 22nd and became the 22nd named storm of the 2005 Atlantic season.

WILMA
-- Wilma slammed across Florida, causing billions in insured damage and leaving six million people without electricity.
-- It was the 12th hurricane of the season, tying the record for the most hurricanes to form in an Atlantic season.

VINCE
-- The Category One hurricane weakened to a tropical storm October ninth and became a tropical depression October eleventh.
-- The National Hurricane Center says Vince was the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in Spain.
-- Vince was the eleventh hurricane of the season, and the 20th named storm.

TAMMY
-- Tammy spread moderate rain across Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
-- Tammy was the 19th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1 and ends November 30th.

STAN
-- Stan blew from September 30th to October fifth. The Category One storm caused major problems in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

RITA
-- Rita was the 17th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. At one time the storm was a Category Five hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles an hour and gusts to 185.

PHILIPPE
-- Hurricane Philippe was active in mid September.
-- Maximum sustained winds were 70 miles per hour.
-- Philippe was named a tropical storm on September 17th.
-- It became a hurricane on September 18th.
-- It weakened into a tropical storm again on September 20th.

OPHELIA
-- Ophelia was the 15th named storm and seventh named hurricane of the year's busy Atlantic season.
-- Ophelia weakened to a tropical storm after a three-day drenching of the North Carolina's coast in September.

NATE
-- Nate formed from a tropical wave that left the coast of Africa on August 30th.
-- Nate intensified into a hurricane on September seventh, threatening Bermuda.
-- It slowly weakened as it moved toward the Azores.
-- No reports of casualties or damage.

MARIA
-- Developed from a tropical wave that crossed the west coast of Africa on August 27th.
-- Became a tropical depression on September first, while east of the northern Leeward Islands.
-- Reached hurricane strength on September fourth, weakened and intensified into a hurricane again on September seventh.
-- As a tropical storm, Maria moved into Scandinavia September 14th, where it caused a landslide and one death in Norway.

LEE
-- Became a tropical storm on August 31st.
-- System quickly weakened northeast of Bermuda.
-- No reports of damage or casualties.

KATRINA
-- Tropical Storm Katrina was named on August 24th.
-- Katrina makes first landfall August 25th, north of Miami.
-- The Category One hurricane caused flooding and 1,069 deaths across the Gulf Coast.
-- Katrina strengthened to Category 5 storm on August 28th with sustained winds of 150 miles an hour and gusts to 185.
-- It came ashore at the Louisiana-Mississippi border around daybreak Monday, August 29th.
-- Flooding August 30th from the hurricane and breached levees in New Orleans swamping the city.
-- Hit South Florida earlier in August.

JOSE
-- Tropical Storm Jose developed on August 22nd in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.
-- Storm made landfall early August 23rd, northwest of Veracruz, Mexico.
-- Jose is blamed for one death.

IRENE
-- Tropical Storm Irene developed on August seventh.
-- Irene became a Category 1 hurricane August 14th but veered away from land.

HARVEY
-- Tropical Depression Eight developed into Tropical Storm Harvey on August third.
-- Harvey never grew into a hurricane.

GERT
-- Tropical Storm Gert developed on July 24th.
-- Gert hit Mexico's coast the same day it is named.

FRANKLIN
-- Tropical Depression Six strengthened into Tropical Storm Franklin on July 21st.
-- Franklin never made land, fizzling over the Atlantic.

EMILY
-- Tropical Storm Emily developed on July eleventh.
-- Emily developed as a strong Category 4 hurricane and hit the Yucatan Peninsula July 18th.
-- Storm went out to sea and then hit northeastern Mexico on July 20th with sustained winds at 125 miles an hour.

DENNIS
-- Tropical Storm Dennis formed on July fifth.
-- Hurricane Dennis developed July sixth; at least 20 deaths in Haiti and Cuba blamed on storm.
-- Storm strengthened to Category 3 hurricane; hit near Pensacola, Florida, on July tenth.

BRET
-- Tropical Depression Two became Storm Bret on June 28th.
-- Downgraded on June 29th.
-- Bret formed off the east coast of Mexico and hit land in the same area.

ARLENE
-- Tropical Depression One strengthens into Tropical Storm Arlene on June ninth.
-- Arlene came ashore June eleventh near the Florida-Alabama line.
-- Strong surf from the storm was blamed for one drowning in Miami Beach.

RECORD-MAKING SEASON
-- August seventh is the earliest date on record for nine named storms.
-- Emily was the strongest storm to form so early in the Atlantic season since record-keeping began in 1860.
-- The previous record for the most named storms in a single season was in 1933.
-- There were 21 tropical storms and hurricanes.

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