How many named hurricanes in 2017

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Story continues below advertisement. Devastating hurricane season captured on NASA satellite time-lapse. How strong do hurricane winds need to be to destroy a home? Dramatic video captures rescue of mother, baby from Harvey flooding. Police rescue animals stranded at flooded shelter. Aerial footage shows sheer scale of devastation on the island of Barbuda. An plus mile wide area of rotation, the source of Nate 's birth, brought very heavy rainfall to a large swath of Central America over a period of a few weeks, resulting in flooding.

Earlier in the season, Franklin drenched parts of Mexico and even helped spawn a new tropical storm in the Pacific. Even Ireland and the United Kingdom picked up tropical-storm-force winds from Ophelia's post-tropical cyclone phase.

Hurricane Irma made more than a half dozen landfalls along its devastating path. The list below shows the intensity of Irma at the time of each landfall. Maria's direct hit on the island territory took its full force out on the island's main radar. Wind gusts up to mph battered the radar's protective dome and tore it away from the pedestal. Perhaps more shockingly, the foot wide radar dish went missing following the storm, likely blown off of its pedestal that is left behind.

A second radar on the island was not as badly damaged and is now back up and running. Close detail shows that both the dome that conceals the radar and the radar dish are gone. Two U. Marine Corps mobile radar units were temporarily deployed to Puerto Rico. Fortunately, the radar was expected to return to service by early June. While not as impactful as a tropical cyclone, after Ophelia turned into a post-tropical cyclone it brought damaging high winds to parts of Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Numerous locations in Ireland, Wales and Scotland reported wind gusts over 75 mph, and one location in Ireland reported a gust of mph. Three people died in what was called Storm Ophelia in the U. Before Ophelia's post-tropical cyclone hammered Ireland and the U.

Hurricanes Franklin and Katia both made landfall in between Tampico and Veracruz, both in the state of Veracruz.

Katia made landfall as a weakening Category 1 with winds of 75 mph and Franklin also made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, but with 85 mph winds. In Franklin's final landfall, the hurricane brought heavy rainfall to eastern Mexico and soaked Mexico's interior before spinning off a new tropical storm in the Pacific.

Damage in the Veracruz state was largely minimal, but sporadic power outages and a few landslides were reported. Katia was more damaging in Mexico's eastern states. Many landslides were reported and 77, people lost power during the hurricane. Katia made landfall just days after a major 8. Tracks of hurricanes Franklin and Katia. Rapid intensification is noted by the National Hurricane Center as being one of the most difficult processes to forecast and understand in tropical forecasting.

The highest errors in forecasting are often associated with phases of rapid changes in hurricanes. The hurricane season produced six tropical cyclones that developed in ideal environmental conditions allowing rapid intensification to occur.

This is defined as an increase of wind speeds by 35 mph in 24 hours. Hurricane Harvey had the largest number of tornado reports with 57, mostly clustered near the southeastern Texas coast. Tornadoes were also spawned by Harvey as it weakened to a tropical storm and a tropical depression in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. Plotted on the map are the tornadoes associated with the hurricanes and tropical storms that affected the U.

The hurricane season produced the largest number of reported tornadoes spawned by tropical storms and hurricanes in the continental United States since , and the fourth-most overall in 23 years. Five Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones made landfall in Tropical Storm Selma was the first named tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in El Salvador.

Tropical Storm Adrian formed on May 9 th , marking the earliest occurrence of a named storm in the East Pacific basin. The previous earliest occurrence was Tropical Storm Alma forming on May 12, For the first year since no tropical cyclones passed near the Hawaiian Islands. The ACE index for the East Pacific basin during was 98 x10 4 knots 2 , which is below the average of x knots2 and the lowest since It is not updated in real time. Users seeking the real time status and forecasts of tropical cyclones should visit The National Hurricane Center.

That official designation will come at the organization's meeting in April, the hurricane center said. Facebook Twitter Email. Show Caption. Hide Caption. As the Atlantic hurricane season ends, here's how intense it was. Not only was it one of the most destructive seasons, it was nearly as costly.