Did the hurricane hit jacksonville fl. Florida has also been hit by more than twice as many hurricanes as the next closest hurricane prone state which is texas. Around the same time last year hurricane matthew headed towards jacksonville. Extremely dangerous storm surge has begun to inundate jacksonville with serious coastal flooding this afternoon.
The list of florida hurricanes encompasses approximately 500 tropical or subtropical cyclones that affected the state of florida. September 1 hurricane hermine made landfall near the big bend of florida making it the first hurricane landfall to the state since hurricane wilma in 2005. Since 1851 a staggering 120 have made some sort of landfall in florida.
The following four regions are the most hurricane prone and least hurricane prone areas in florida. Hurricane michael making landfall on the florida panhandle in october 2018. Of the 292 hurricanes that have hit the us.
Jacksonville saw rough seas on a blustery wet wednesday but was spared the worst as hurricane dorian slid north far offshore after forcing jacksonville to prepare for its third hurricane in nearly. Hurricane dora 1964 the strongest effect on jacksonville was from hurricane dora in 1964 the only recorded storm to hit the first coast with sustained hurricane force winds. Jacksonville international airport reported a wind gust of 64 mph.
Colin was the earliest c storm on record. Hurricane dorian bore down on the bahamas as a fierce category 4 storm saturday with new projections showing it curving upward enough to potentially spare florida a direct hit but still. It neared category five intensity on the saffir simpson hurricane scale as it approached the bahamas and produced a flooding catastrophe in the.
Now this year the most intense storm to hit the us since hurricane katrina. Tropical storm warnings were issued from the panhandle down to fort myers fl on west coast and from jacksonville to melbourne on east coast of florida. Floyd was a large and intense cape verde hurricane that pounded the bahama islands seriously threatened florida struck the coast of north carolina and moved up the east coast into new england.
Hurricane information and weather headlines from the local station in jacksonville florida wjxt jacksonvilles channel 4.