All states landfalling Tropical systems(by Category) Year by year

[LongIslandHurricanes]

I have put together Tropical Landfalling history pages for all states along the Gulf & East coasts. Each states page includes Graphs, and year by year History of evey storm that has made landfall on the states coast since 1851. I have list year by year with each landfalling category, By decade, Percentage of each Category, last of each category, and Average of each catergory per year

Here is Florida page, you can access all other states from page

http://www.hurricanes-blizzards-noreasters.com/florida.html

[Ed Lizard]

Not going to check Wiki to refresh, but a hurricane apparently passed close enough to San Diego in the 1800s to produce wind damage, and there was a former hurricane that made landfall as a TS near Long Beach, CA in the 1930s.  Not much wind damage, IIRC, but unusual heavy rains for the season.  I think there was flooding.

 

Warm ENSO and all, would a SoCal based tight core snob chase a weakening hurricane or TS approaching the SoCal coast, because no airline reservations required and for historical significance?

[icebreaker5221]

I have put together Tropical Landfalling history pages for all states along the Gulf & East coasts. Each states page includes Graphs, and year by year History of evey storm that has made landfall on the states coast since 1851. I have list year by year with each landfalling category, By decade, Percentage of each Category, last of each category, and Average of each catergory per year

Here is Florida page, you can access all other states from page

http://www.hurricanes-blizzards-noreasters.com/florida.html

 

Nice work!  A couple of comments:

 

Rather than separate out TSs, 1s, 2s etc..., it would be nice to see a bar chart / table comparing the following 3 criteria: (1) all named systems, (2) all hurricanes of any strength, and (3) all major hurricanes, since that's how seasonal activity is generally quantified.  The way you have it organized now, one has to manually add up total hurricanes (or subtract TSs from the total), or add up the 3's - 5's manually to get these numbers. 

 

I like the stat for most consecutive years without a system.  Could you add most consecutive years without a hurricane / major hurricane?  Florida is currently tied with 1857-1864 for their longest hurricane drought on record (8 years).  If they don't get hit this year, it will be the new record!

 

I hadn't realized FL was hit by a named system every single year from 1891-1904!  That's an impressive stat. 

[stepandfetch]

Where is Hazel?

[Ground Scouring]

Where is Hazel?

HURDAT officially lists Hazel as a 110-kt Category 3 at the last fix before landfall near the SC / NC border. The Saffir-Simpson Scale is now wind based, not pressure based as was the case when it was first devised. Hazel was originally listed as a Cat.-4 landfall based on the analyzed 938-mb central pressure even though the winds were equal to Cat.-3 strength. Now it is a Category 4 based on HURDAT. Of course the 1954 season has not yet been reanalyzed officially, so the HURDAT data will probably change.

[ncforecaster89]

Hi! Very impressive work you've put together!

As another poster mentioned, I too would respectfully suggest/encourage an ammendment to the data for NC to designate H Hazel as a category four landfall. Although HURDAT is now based on MSW, as opposed to BP, all HURDAT lists show Hazel as a category four landfall/impact for NC. In addition, the preliminary work by HRD has already been completed for the 1954 season, and increases the MSW for Hazel, at landfall, to 115 knots. Moreover, this reanalysis puts Hazel as a category four impact for NC and a category three impact for SC.

Once again, excellent work!

[HurricaneJosh]

Cool charts!  Nice to see it all visualized like that!

 

The initial reanalysis studies suggest Hazel was 115 kt at landfall at the NC/SC border, and the researchers suggest it count as a Cat 4 landfall for NC and a Cat 3 for SC (which was on the weaker side).  That is not official yet, but that's the recommendation being made to the Best Track Committee.

 

That would make Hazel the only known Cat 4 for NC.

[ncforecaster89]

I thought I should also point out that TS Hanna made landfall right at the NC/SC border, as a high-end TS, during the early morning hours of September 6, 2008. Thus, I would respectfully recommend adding this TC landfall to the data contained on your excellent "NC" page.

Edit: I also don't see the 1971 category one landfall of H "Ginger" represented there, either. Moreover, I noticed that you justifiably counted H Helene of 1958 as a category three strike (the eye didn't cross the coast) for NC, but didn't do the same for the category three strike of H Emily in 1993. I recognized you stated that the data didn't take into consideration "brushes", and only landfalling storms, but there are a few other such inconsistent discrepancies listed in the data (such as these) for other NC strikes and direct landfalls-some affecting the category for which they would be listed.

There is a typo on the respective charts for the year 1955 that is currently listed as "1855." These kind of inadvertent errors/typos are to be expected when undertaking such an enormous task as this, and are completely understandable. Please understand that these posts are in no way meant to detract from the fantastic job you've done compiling all this data and providing charts to correspond with it.

[LongIslandHurricanes]

Hi! Very impressive work you've put together!

As another poster mentioned, I too would respectfully suggest/encourage an ammendment to the data for NC to designate H Hazel as a category four landfall. Although HURDAT is now based on MSW, as opposed to BP, all HURDAT lists show Hazel as a category four landfall/impact for NC. In addition, the preliminary work by HRD has already been completed for the 1954 season, and increases the MSW for Hazel, at landfall, to 115 knots. Moreover, this reanalysis puts Hazel as a category four impact for NC and a category three impact for SC.

Once again, excellent work!

 

 

Will correct that

[LongIslandHurricanes]

Have add a few things( news video I had recorded, and more charts) to the North Carolina and Florida pages. Willbe doing same for all other states

 

North Carolina

 

Florida

[smog strangler]

Florida is easily in the midst of its longest Hurricane drought (any Cat) in recorded history on the heels of the incredible seasons of 2004 and 2005!

 

 

edit, I see icebreaker already touched on this. When you have to go back to the times of the US Civil War for a benchmark it is saying something. Anyway, great stuff here!

[ice1972]

Not going to check Wiki to refresh, but a hurricane apparently passed close enough to San Diego in the 1800s to produce wind damage, and there was a former hurricane that made landfall as a TS near Long Beach, CA in the 1930s. Not much wind damage, IIRC, but unusual heavy rains for the season. I think there was flooding.

Warm ENSO and all, would a SoCal based tight core snob chase a weakening hurricane or TS approaching the SoCal coast, because no airline reservations required and for historical significance?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_hurricanes

California generally is impacted on a somewhat regular basis by remnants of Pacific tropical cyclones....usually in September.....rain is about the only concern.....check the link out....the only recorded tropical cyclone to make landfall at TS strength was in 1939.....near Long Beach.....interesting read