Historical Precedent

[Mation]

Hello everyone! I've been lurking on this board for years everytime a hurricane comes near us...and now it's time to post! (BTW, the information I've gather here has been amazing, this is a great community, very knowledgeable and always on top of things)

Does anyone know, if Jeanne were to make landfall here in Florida, if there is any time in history where this many storms made landfall (well, Ivan didn't technically make landfall in Florida) in one state in such a short period of time? This just seems completely insane to think yet another storm could come through, yet here we are again.

Look forward to getting involved in the conversations!!!

[Innotech]

this sort of hting happens often in the west pacific, so its not something unheard of, but as for the Atlantic, its definitelyrare. Im not sure if this sort of landfall frequency has happened in a US season though.

[sprink52]

When I moved to South Florida in'76 I used to go to the library and read old Miami papers relative to hurricanes. I remember reading about the 1926 Miami storm and how it broke the back of the Florida land boom. I recall reading about a second hurricane that hit the Miami -Ft. Lauderdale area 2 weeks later in 1926. There wasn't as much damage from the 2nd one because there was nothing left to destroy because of the storm 2 weeks prior!! I think the second storm relocated the mouth of the New River in Ft. Lauderdale south to it's current location at Port Everglades. Prior to that I think it went into the ocean near Sunrise Blvd.

[AussieMark]

North Carolina in 1955 had

3 Hurricanes (Connie, Diane and Ione)


Florida in 1926

3 Hurricanes (#1, #6, #10) 1 Tropical Storm (#7)


Florida in 1950

2 Hurricanes (Easy, King) 1 Tropical Storm (Love)

[donsutherland1]

Florida saw the landfall of 3 hurricanes in 1964: Cleo, Dora, and Isbell.

[Wannabewxman79]

In 1995 N.C. had 2 landfalling hurricanes in Fran and Bonnie.

[AussieMark]

In 1995 N.C. had 2 landfalling hurricanes in Fran and Bonnie.

1996

[jdray]

Florida saw the landfall of 3 hurricanes in 1964: Cleo, Dora, and Isbell.

as well as a TS of 50MPH coming through the Big Bend area, which made a total of 4

So far this year:
Bonnie - TS in Panhandle/Big Bend area
Charley - Cat 4- Punta Gorda thru Daytona
Frances - Cat 2 South/Central Florida - Damage from WPB North to Jax
Ivan - Cat 3/4 - actual landfall in Alabama, but massive damage in P-Cola.

Jeanne would make the 5th hit this year.

[Mation]

I forgot about Bonnie...easy to do considering what's happened since then.

[GOMer]

My parents are down in Pensacola, and when he talked to the State Farm adjuster, that person said that the damage to Pensacola was much worse than Punta Gorda from Charley and Charleston from Hugo. I don't really understand that since it was observably weaker than both. I think that maybe the angle it took coming from the southwest and the configuration of Pensacola Bay had something to do with it.

[NC George]

In 1995 N.C. had 2 landfalling hurricanes in Fran and Bonnie.

1996

Don't forget 1999 where we had 2 landfalling storms, also: Dennis and Floyd.

[inotherwords]

"I remember reading about the 1926 Miami storm and how it broke the back of the Florida land boom. I recall reading about a second hurricane that hit the Miami -Ft. Lauderdale area 2 weeks later in 1926."

Yes, this is true. And for decades, Florida downplayed its hurricanes because of fear of losing tourist revenue.

I think the original poster is asking if this year would be a record year in Florida for Floridian landfall storms, so I'm not sure how the posts about North Carolina landfalling storms are relevant to the original question. It seems with Jeanne that we are about to eclipse 1926's record of three strong hurricanes, one tropical storm, especially if Jeanne comes in as a Cat. 3.

[wolfray]

In 1995 N.C. had 2 landfalling hurricanes in Fran and Bonnie.

1996

Don't forget 1999 where we had 2 landfalling storms, also: Dennis and Floyd.

In 1996 NC first had Bertha in July, then Fran in Sept, then Josephine in Oct. Bonnie hit NC in 1998

[catzmeow]

Charley was a very narrow storm. My parents lived about 10 miles from the center of where the storm made landfall, and had NO damage. Ivan was a very wide storm that impacted a region 200 miles east of the center of landfall (about 80 miles east with hurricane force winds and 200 miles east with tropical storm force winds). Ivan also spun off a number of tornadoes, both in Florida, and all the way up the east coast, along with massive flooding.

Charley, while devastating to South Florida, didn't impact nearly as LARGE an area and didn't have the heavy rainfall totals of Ivan...it also had a smaller storm surge.

Catz