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The least powerful category of hurricane; likely before strengthening further.

What is a Tropical Depression?

100

What organization names hurricanes in the atlantic.

What is NOAA?

100

The lower this statistic on atmospheric pressure is, the more dangerous the hurricane is.

What are millibars?

100

Which hurricane traveled 4,000 miles over 1 month?

What is Hurricane Dora?

100

What is the scale used to measure hurricane categories?

What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?

200

The category of Hurricane Beryl when it made landfall in Texas.

What is a Category 1 hurricane?

200

The NOAA names the hurricanes in the Atlantic, and this organization names hurricanes in the Pacific.

What is NOAA?

(It was a trick question ;))

200

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?

200

This hurricane has the earliest date on record in a season to reach a category 5 status.

What is hurricane Beryl?

200

What is the center of a hurricane called?

What is the eye?

300

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.

300

These 5 letters are unincluded in Hurricane naming alphabetically. What letters are these?

What is the letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z?

300

This measurement is how fast the winds move in a certain moment, but not the actual wind speed.

What is wind gusts?

300

This letter is commonly known as a "cursed letter" for Florida's gulf coast.

What is the letter I?

300

This date is when the hurricane season ends.

What is November 30th?

400

When a hurricane reaches Cat 5, it is this amount of miles per hour.

What is 155 or 157 mph?

400

The Hurricane naming tradition has existed since what year?

What is 1953?

400

The speed of wind in hurricanes is measured by this.

What is mph?

400

This hurricane is the deadliest hurricane in Texas history

What is the Galveston 1900 hurricane?

400

You found the second bonus question! If you get this right, you get 800 points, but if you get this wrong, you lost 800 points.

This is the question.

What two hurricanes struck Florida within two weeks of each other?

What is Helene and Milton?

500

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?

500

BONUS QUESTION!

You found the double question! If you answer this correctly, you get 1,000 points! But, if you answer this question wrong, you lose 1,000 points. Here is the question...

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?

500

The eye of the storm keeps its shape because of this.

What is the eyewall?

500

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?

500

This hurricane had 215 mph winds, which is the highest ever.

What is hurricane Patricia?