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The least powerful category of hurricane; likely before strengthening further.
What is a Tropical Depression?
What organization names hurricanes in the atlantic.
What is NOAA?
The lower this statistic on atmospheric pressure is, the more dangerous the hurricane is.
What are millibars?
Which hurricane traveled 4,000 miles over 1 month?
What is Hurricane Dora?
What is the scale used to measure hurricane categories?
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
The category of Hurricane Beryl when it made landfall in Texas.
What is a Category 1 hurricane?
The NOAA names the hurricanes in the Atlantic, and this organization names hurricanes in the Pacific.
What is NOAA?
(It was a trick question ;))
These are the three different names of tropical systems (Hint: they are the same thing, but they have different names depending on the region the storm spawns in.)
What are hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones?
This hurricane has the earliest date on record in a season to reach a category 5 status.
What is hurricane Beryl?
What is the center of a hurricane called?
What is the eye?
All 7 categories of a tropical system/hurricane.
What are Tropical Depressions, Tropical Storms, Cat 1s, Cat 2s, Cat 3s, Cat 4s, and Cat 5s.
These 5 letters are unincluded in Hurricane naming alphabetically. What letters are these?
What is the letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z?
This measurement is how fast the winds move in a certain moment, but not the actual wind speed.
What is wind gusts?
This letter is commonly known as a "cursed letter" for Florida's gulf coast.
What is the letter I?
This date is when the hurricane season ends.
What is November 30th?
When a hurricane reaches Cat 5, it is this amount of miles per hour.
What is 155 or 157 mph?
The Hurricane naming tradition has existed since what year?
What is 1953?
The speed of wind in hurricanes is measured by this.
What is mph?
This hurricane is the deadliest hurricane in Texas history
What is the Galveston 1900 hurricane?
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What two hurricanes struck Florida within two weeks of each other?
What is Helene and Milton?
The Galveston 1900 hurricane was the deadliest hurricane in history. What category was it when it made landfall in coastal Texas?
What is a Category 4 hurricane?
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What was the name of the hurricane that struck twice in the same area, on the same day, but in different years
What are the San Felipe Hurricanes?
The eye of the storm keeps its shape because of this.
What is the eyewall?
In 2017, this category 4 hurricane struck Texas, and it rained for 6 days afterward, making it one of the worst hurricanes in Texas history.
What is hurricane Harvey?
This hurricane had 215 mph winds, which is the highest ever.
What is hurricane Patricia?