Category 6 major hurricane (SSHWS) | |
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Hurricane Don upon landfall in New York | |
Formed | June 12th, 2017 |
Dissipated | June 21st, 2017 |
(Extratropical after June 20th) | |
Highest winds | 10-minute sustained: 335 km/h (205 mph) 3-minute sustained: 350 km/h (220 mph) 1-minute sustained: 365 km/h (225 mph) Gusts: 370 km/h (230 mph) |
Lowest pressure | 868 hPa (mbar); 25.63 inHg |
Fatalities | 6,443 direct, 26,311 indirect |
Damage | $185.23 billion (2017 USD) |
Areas affected | most of the eastern United States, Eastern Canada, Eastern and Central Michigan |
Part of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season |
Hurricane Don was the costliest and strongest storm in the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season and in the world. After the dissipation of Don, the NHC added Don as the first Category 6 to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, and many other hurricanes that had qualified for Category 6. Hurricane Don was also the most deadliest storm on record, with a total of 32,754 fatalities when it had made landfall in New York City, shortly after Don, the streets of New York were buried over 25 feet of water, making survivors stranded on rooftops.
Track[]
The National Hurricane Center detected a tropical wave off the coast of Senegal, moving north-west at 2 miles per hour. 2 days after the detection of the wave, it formed into Tropical Depression Four, now increasing it's speed to 5 mph. A mere 13 hours after, TD4 intensified into Tropical Storm Don, NHC predicted that it would make landfall as a Category 1 in North and South Carolina. Don had strengthened into a category 1, when it was finally considered a hurricane, and was starting to rapidly intensify to a Category 3 just hours later, where it made a sudden move towards New York. 4 hours later it had became a Category 4 and then a Category 5, Don ballooned very rapidly where it was x2 the size of Typhoon Tip, the largest tropical cyclone in diameter... Making landfall at 10:39PM June 19th in New York as a Category 5, engulfing the entire east coast and most of Michigan and the Great Lakes.