Two Huricanes

[chadtm80]

Have 2 hurricanes ever hit the Conus on the same day?

[Stratosphere747]

I'd say very doubtful. Being the fact that the most we have had in a single year is 6 land falling hurricanes. Would have to think the only chance for this to ever happen is having one hitting Hawaii and the CONUS at the same time.

[hurricanedude]

Yes it has happened...Found this on Google
Q: When Hurricane Charley hit Florida a day after Tropical Storm Bonnie hit the same state, was it the first time storms had hit the same state a day apart?

A: No. From the available information, we can be pretty sure that two hurricanes hit Florida on the same day in 1837, and that a hurricane and a tropical storm hit on the same day or a day apart in 1906. For the details, go to the complete answer to this question

[Andrew92]

YES. On September 4, 1933, Central Florida was hit by a C3 hurricane early in the morning. Then, later that night, southern Texas got hit my another weaker hurricane (but it was a hurricane).

I remember TWC said that had happened....and I just now verified it. I don't have a website that has proof, but I did look at the Unisys page for 1933 and looked at the tracks for the two that they claimed hit, along with the tracking data, and yep they both hit on 9/4/33. They are storms #11 and #12.

http://www.weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1933/

-Andrew92

[HurricaneJoe22]

looks as if the Atlantic ridge was moving east to allow the storm 12 to turn to the wnw for the hit on Palm Beach

[BlizzardBong87]

Here comes alpha, here comes alpha, right down alpha lane........

[Brent]

I believe that Tropical Storm Lester moved up into Arizona the night before(so essentially the same day since it would only be a few hours earlier) Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida.

[Aslkahuna]

Ex-EPAC Hurricane Lester moved into SE AZ just east of Nogales at 10:30PM MST 23 August 1992 (1:30 AM EDT 24 August 1992) as a Tropical Storm thus becoming the first named storm to enter the 48 mainland states in 1992. The Center passed 20 miles NW of Sierra Vista and the sea level pressure fell to 997 mb at Fort Huachuca. Our mesonet station in the East Range recorded a 15 minute average wind of 48 mph (which is well over 50 mph for a one minute average) with a peak gust of 69 mph. The South Range had a peak gust of 78mph as I did also at the house along with 45-55 mph average winds. We had 3-6 inches of rain from the storm with the rain falling over a 6 hour time frame. Many trees were downed and there was some minor structural damage and the power was out for at least a day and more in some areas. Although our weather station was without power, we used our field generators to bring our essential systems on line and were able to function for a while.

Steve