Two Hurricane Hits At Once

[Socalhurcnegirl227]

does anyone know if two hurricanes have hit the CONUS at the same time just in different parts of the US? is this something even possible? if it hasnt happened do you think it very well could?

[Hurricaneman]

I think you have to go back to the 60s to find a year and if not then maybe it’s never happened

[Ubuntwo]

There have never been two landfalls on the same day, but there have been cases where two regions experienced hurricane-force winds at once.

[Hurricanehink]

Not the US, and not hurricanes, but in 2013, tropical storms Ingrid and Manuel struck opposite sides of Mexico within 24 hours.

Not close enough? How about August 24, 1992, when Hurricane Andrew struck Florida, and former Hurricane Lester entered Arizona as a tropical storm.

[toad strangler]

Frances and Jeanne being back to back in 2004 wasn't the same time but damn close. And landfalls were nearly in the same location. That;s a scenario I believe that no living soul will see again.

[Ubuntwo]

Frances and Jeanne being back to back in 2004 wasn't the same time but damn close. And landfalls were nearly in the same location. That;s a scenario I believe that no living soul will see again.

It's remarkable, but not the first time such an event has happened. Two hurricanes in 1870 brought hurricane-force winds to the lower keys within a month of each other. Even more remarkable is the very next year, where a hurricane made landfall on Hobe Sound, then a week later another hurricane made landfall on Vero Beach.

[Ptarmigan]

A tropical storm and a major hurricane makes landfall a week later in Texas in September 1941. Two hurricanes make landfall on Texas a week apart in August 1942. The second hurricane is a major hurricane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_Atla ... ane_season
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_Atla ... ane_season

[CrazyC83]

It came close to THREE hits at once in 2017, had Jose hit the NE Leewards instead of a near-miss, it would have been concurrent with Irma hitting Cuba and Katia hitting Mexico.

[SconnieCane]

Two named tropical cyclones (although not both hurricanes) made landfall on not only the CONUS, but the same state within a 24-hour period in August 2004. 22 hours after TS Bonnie moved inland on the Panhandle, Hurricane Charley passed over the Dry Tortugas en route to its explosive intensification/right hook into Charlotte Harbor.

If shear had been weaker in the northern GOM at the time, perhaps they both would have been hurricanes.

[ncforecaster89]

I'm unaware of two separate hurricanes making landfall on the continental U.S., simultaneously, but the hyperactive 1933 season produced two separate major hurricane hits on different parts of the U.S. within 24 hours of one another!

Hurricane 11 made landfall near Jupiter Fl., as a 110 kt borderline Category 3/4 at 1 am EDT on 9/4/1933

Hurricane 8 made landfall near Brownsville, TX, also as a 110 kt borderline Category 3/4 at 11 pm CDT on the same date of 9/4/1933.

Officially, these two separate major hurricanes struck S TX and SE FL, respectively, exactly 23 hours apart.

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/US ... ailed.html

[TheAustinMan]

It's before the age of the modern hurricane database, but this happened in 1837 (an active year, and according to historian David Ludlum, one of the greatest hurricane seasons on record).

1837 was very much the 19th century's version of 2004, and in fact might've been worse for Florida than 2004. Researchers found at least 17 tropical cyclones that year, which is remarkable considering the amount of data available.

Not only did two storms hit CONUS on the same day, two hurricanes made landfall on Florida on the same day. On August 2, 1837, a hurricane made landfall on the Jacksonville of Florida while another made landfall near modern-day Boca Raton. Remarkably, this happened twice in the same year! On August 7, 1837, a hurricane made landfall on Pensacola (the same storm that hit Boca Raton earlier) while another made landfall near modern-day Daytona Beach. Later that same month, another hurricane would hit the Nature Coast on August 31, 1837.

Florida recorded four hurricane landfalls within five days, and those landfalls came in pairs with two striking simultaneously on August 2 and two again on August 7. The state recorded five hurricane landfalls from four hurricanes in just 1 month (and was nearly hit by another that grazed the SE US coasts between August 16-18, later passing close to Cape Hatteras). If you were in Jacksonville you would have experienced two hurricanes and a tropical storm... in one month.

276kB. Source: Presentation by Cary J. Mock, from the 32nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. Christopher Landsea, Sandy Delgado, and Brenden Moses also contributing.