LAST MAJOR HURRICANE TO STRIKE BY REGION

[AussieMark]

Texas - Bret (1999)
- South - Bret (1999)
- Central - Carla (1961)
- Upper - ALicia (1983)
Louisiana - Andrew (1992)
Mississippi - Elena (1985)
Alabama - Frederic (1979)
Florida - Opal (1995)
- Panhandle - Opal (1995)
- EastCoast - Andrew (1992)
- WestCoast - Donna (1960)
Georgia - 1893
South Carolina - Hugo (1989)
North Carolina - Fran (1996)
New England - 1938 storm

Took a long time to find this can someone work backwards from 1893 and see when the more recent year for a Category 3-4-5 to strike Virginia if there was one.

[isobar]

Very interesting read, thanks TWW!

[weatherluvr]

Georgia 1983? Did you mean 1893?

[ColdFront77]

I believe it was a typo.

For one thing, tropical cyclones weren't named in 1883, but were obviously named in 1983.

[AussieMark]

Sorry about that I was in a hurry at the time and didn't have time time for editing.

[JetMaxx]

The last major hurricane to strike New England was Donna in 1960....gusts of 140 mph were recorded in Massachusetts, and 130+ at Block Island, RI. Before Donna, both hurricanes Carol and Edna in 1954 were major landfalling hurricanes in that area....as was a severe 1944 hurricane that roared up the East Coast (Edna produced wind gusts of 135-140 mph on Nantucket and Cape Cod; while Carol produced a 17' storm surge at New Bedford, Massachusetts...along with 135 mph wind gusts).

The last major hurricane to strike my home state of Georgia was a category 4 monster on October 2, 1898 that is now believed to be around hurricane Hugo's intensity (based on a 19' storm surge near Sapelo Island lighthouse).....938 mb was recently assigned to this hurricane by the NOAA HURDAT Project (Hurricane Research Division).

The Alabama coast was also slammed by hurricane Elena in 1985. At the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, wind gusts of 136 mph were recorded before the anemometer was destroyed (the barometric pressure on Dauphin Island fell to 955 mb).