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Hurricane Floyd 1999

Category 4 hurricane · Atlantic · September 7 to September 17, 1999

Floyd came ashore in the Bahamas as a Category 3 hurricane on September 14, 1999, with 125 mph winds. Its lowest pressure, 921 mb, was the third-lowest of the 129 Atlantic storms of the 1990s with a recorded pressure. With a peak of 155 mph, it ranked tied for the strongest of the 16 storms of the 1999 season. The name Floyd is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Floyd (1999) from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N40°N50°N90°W80°W70°W60°W50°W40°WVirginia BeachBridgeportBahamas, 120 mphNorth Carolina, 105 mphPeak 155 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 3Category 400 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Floyd (1999) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 504080120160Sep 8Sep 10Sep 12Sep 14Sep 16Sep 18mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 890 miles northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
  2. Tropical storm 780 miles east-northeast of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados
  3. Hurricane 250 miles northeast of Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda
  4. Major hurricane 315 miles north of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  5. Peak 265 miles north of Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic
  6. Landfall Bahamas: Category 3, 120 mph, 930 mb
  7. Landfall Bahamas
  8. Landfall North Carolina: Category 2, 105 mph, 956 mb
  9. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 30 miles southwest of Portland, Maine
  10. Last record 450 miles east of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind155 mph · tied 45th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure921 mb · 30th of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy29.4 · 95th of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone9.5 days · tied 292nd of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 1999 season

04080120160Floyd

Storm 8 of 16 in 1999, hurricane 4 of 8; it formed after Storm 7 of 1999 and before Gert. Floyd produced 17% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. See the season.

Places the center passed

The center came within 50 miles of at least 8 towns or cities of 10,000 people or more while the system was tropical. Distances are to the interpolated track line, not the storm's edge.

PlaceClosestWind thenDate
Jacksonville, North Carolina2 mi90 mphSeptember 16
Virginia Beach, Virginia3 mi75 mphSeptember 16
Atlantic City, New Jersey3 mi65 mphSeptember 16
New Haven, Connecticut4 mi60 mphSeptember 17
Bridgeport, Connecticut10 mi60 mphSeptember 17
Wilmington, North Carolina11 mi100 mphSeptember 16
Norfolk, Virginia11 mi75 mphSeptember 16
Hartford, Connecticut12 mi60 mphSeptember 17

Every storm within 50 miles of Virginia Beach, Virginia

Similar landfalls in Bahamas

Storms whose strongest landfall record in the Bahamas came closest to Floyd's 125 mph:

All 29 storms with a landfall record in Bahamas

Also peaked at 155 mph

Of 10 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time: