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Famous Hurricanes

Can you name these famous hurricanes and typhoons from their peak intensity, year happened, and description?
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"Famous" is defined as record-breaking or well known culturally in a country/the world, and "hurricane" refers to North Atlantic storms.
All hurricane names come from a meteorological agency or what it is widely referred to (before naming hurricanes became a practice)
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Category 5
Earliest forming Category 5 hurricane
2024
Beryl
Category 1
Latest forming hurricane in history, one of two named storms to occur over two years
1954-55
Alice
Category 5
Holder of multiple records, including fastest intensification from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane
2005
Wilma
Category 5
Costliest Category 5 hurricane, famous for flooding New Orleans
2005
Katrina
Category 4
Costliest Category 4 hurricane, stalled over the Houston metropolitan area for two days
2017
Harvey
Category 5
Deadliest named hurricane, killing over 11,300 in Honduras and Nicaragua
1998
Mitch
Category 5
Spawned over 120 tornadoes across Alabama and Florida, the most in recorded history
2004
Ivan
Category 3
The first (by time spawned) hurricane whose name was retired. A year earlier, a storm of the same name became the first named Category 5 hurricane.
1954
Carol
Category 5
The first confirmed Category 5 hurricane, also stayed at Category 5 strength for the longest time
1924
1924 Cuba Hurricane
Category 4
The deadliest hurricane in United States history, killing over 8,000
1900
Great Galveston Hurricane
Category 3
Unofficially referred to as a "superstorm", made landfall in the New York City area
2012
Sandy
Category 1
Only hurricane officially regarded to strike Europe, hitting southern Spain
2005
Vince
Category 5
Longest continuous span as a Category 5 hurricane, first hurricane on record to strike the northern Lesser Antilles
2017
Irma
Category 5
Famous for the devastation it caused to Puerto Rico, destroyed the island's power grid
2017
Maria
Category 5
Highest sustained wind speed at landfall in history, most intense hurricane to strike the Bahamas
2019
Dorian
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3 Comments
Ritzrandom
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Level 30
Jul 2, 2024
Beryl now holds the record of earliest forming category 5 hurricane
SonOfApollo
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Level 60
Aug 4, 2024
Fixed! Thank you!
TDSQuizzes
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Level 33
Oct 2, 2025
hurricane Milton?
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