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List of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes
The list of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes covers Atlantic storms with sustained winds of 130 to 156 mph on the Saffir-Simpson scale, from records beginning in 1851.
List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes
The list of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes covers the 45 storms reaching winds above 157 mph since 1924, with a record four in 2005 and three in 2025.
List of costliest Atlantic hurricanes
The list of costliest Atlantic hurricanes ranks storms by estimated U.S. damage adjusted for inflation, led by Katrina (2005) at $201.3 billion, ahead of Harvey and Ian.
List of Florida hurricanes
The list of Florida hurricanes covers tropical cyclones that struck Florida since records began in 1851, including the 1928 Lake Okeechobee hurricane, Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and Ian in 2022.
List of Florida hurricanes (2000–present)
A list of hurricanes that struck Florida from 2000 to the present, including the four-storm seasons of 2004 and 2005 and Ian, the state's costliest hurricane in 2022.
List of Louisiana hurricanes (2000–present)
The list of Louisiana hurricanes (2000–present), also called the list of hurricanes in Louisiana, catalogs every hurricane to strike the state since 2000, from Katrina's devastation to 2024's Francine.
List of Mexico hurricanes
The list of Mexico hurricanes, also called Hurricanes in Mexico, covers tropical cyclones striking both coasts, averaging about 4.5 direct impacts yearly, with Hurricane Patricia the strongest on record.
List of Mississippi hurricanes
The list of Mississippi hurricanes covers tropical cyclones that struck the state since records began in 1851, including Hurricane Camille in 1969 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
List of New York hurricanes
The list of New York hurricanes covers storms striking New York State, where direct landfalls are rare and include the deadly 1938 Long Island Express and Hurricane Sandy.
List of North Carolina hurricanes
North Carolina hurricanes are the tropical cyclones that have struck the state, which ranks second to Florida in landfalls, averaging a direct hit every two years since 1851.
List of Queensland tropical cyclones
Tropical cyclones that form in or affect the Coral Sea and the Queensland coast of Australia, including Althea (1971), Larry (2006), Yasi (2011), and Alfred (2025).
List of retired Atlantic hurricane names
The list of retired Atlantic hurricane names covers the 83 storm names, like Katrina and Sandy, that the WMO has removed from reuse because the storms were deadly or destructive.
List of retired Australian region cyclone names
The list of retired Australian region cyclone names covers names permanently retired after severe impacts, from Audrey and Flora in 1964 through Freddy, Gabrielle, and Ilsa in 2023.
List of retired Pacific hurricane names
The list of retired Pacific hurricane names covers deadly eastern and central Pacific storms, from Adele in 1970 to John in 2024, whose names the World Meteorological Organization has withdrawn from reuse.
List of retired Philippine typhoon names
The list of retired Philippine typhoon names covers the 71 names PAGASA has decommissioned and 50 it has delisted since 1963, after deadly or costly storms like Yolanda.
List of South Atlantic tropical and subtropical cyclones
The list of South Atlantic tropical and subtropical cyclones covers storms in a basin where they form rarely, best known for Hurricane Catarina, which struck southern Brazil in March 2004.
List of South Carolina hurricanes
The list of South Carolina hurricanes covers tropical cyclones affecting South Carolina since records began in 1851, including the deadliest storm, the 1893 Sea Islands hurricane.
List of storms named Saudel
Saudel is a western North Pacific typhoon name contributed by Micronesia in 2017, replacing Soudelor; Typhoon Saudel struck the Philippines in 2020 and Japan in 2026.
List of Texas hurricanes (1980–present)
List of Texas hurricanes (1980–present), covering storms from Hurricane Allen in 1980 through Hurricane Beryl in 2024, including Harvey and Ike, two of the costliest in US history.
List of the most intense tropical cyclones
The most intense tropical cyclones on record are ranked by pressure and wind: Typhoon Tip (870 mb, 1979) and Hurricane Patricia (185 kt, 2015) hold the records.
List of United States hurricanes
The list of United States hurricanes covers tropical cyclones with hurricane-force winds affecting US territory from 1851, led by the 1900 Galveston hurricane in deaths and Katrina in damage.
List of Virginia hurricanes
List of Virginia hurricanes covers tropical cyclones affecting the state since 1635; hurricanes strike about every 2.3 years, and Camille in 1969 killed 153 people.
Maximum potential intensity
Maximum potential intensity, often called potential intensity, is a theoretical upper limit on the strength a tropical cyclone can reach in a given atmospheric and oceanic environment.
Maximum sustained wind
Maximum sustained wind is the highest near-surface wind speed averaged over a defined period, used as the standard measure of a tropical cyclone's intensity; the United States uses a 1-minute average.
National Hurricane Center
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is a US government office in Miami, part of NOAA's National Weather Service, that forecasts tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific.
Nuclear strikes on hurricanes
Nuclear strikes on hurricanes, also called nuking a hurricane, is a recurring proposal to destroy hurricanes with bombs, rejected by scientists as ineffective and a radioactive fallout hazard.
PAGASA name lists for tropical cyclones
PAGASA name lists are four rotating sets of 25 Filipino names, each with a 10-name auxiliary list, that PAGASA assigns to tropical cyclones entering the Philippine Area of Responsibility.
Power dissipation index
The power dissipation index (PDI) is a measure of tropical cyclone destructive potential, summing maximum sustained wind speed cubed, introduced by MIT's Kerry Emanuel in 2005.
Project Stormfury
Project Stormfury was a joint US Navy and NOAA program, running from 1962 to 1983, that tried to weaken hurricanes by seeding them with silver iodide.
Radius of maximum wind
The radius of maximum wind (RMW) is the distance from a tropical cyclone's center to its maximum winds, generally at the inner edge of the eyewall in strong hurricanes.