what was the latest hurricane to occur in north america?

Question

i need to know for a project

Answer 1

Henriette, it just went ashore in Mexico

I'm adding a little bit to clear up confusion caused by some other answers. It was Henriette, without a doubt. Felix had dissipated before Henriette finally came ashore in mainland Mexico, after brushing La Paz.

Hurricanes may not FORM over North America, but they surely occur here. Any tropical cyclone that generates sustained hurricane force winds over North America is a hurricane in North America, I don't understand the nitpicking over the asker's phrasing on that point. So what if they don't form here? If a cold front forms in the Gulf of Alaska and then moves over North America should that be counted as a cold front in North America? Of course, and the same thing goes for hurricanes.

Answer 2

Technically speaking, no hurricane has EVER occured "in North America."

Considering that hurricanes and tropical cyclones need oceanic moisture sources to be created and sustain themselves... well, hurricanes just dont happen over land. Seeing as North America is a continent and not an ocean, yah.

Otherwise, the discussion about Henriette is correct if we're inferring your question to be what was the latest hurricane to AFFECT North America, rather than "occur in."

It's dissipating right now over New Mexico and Arizona. See the references below.

Answer 3

It was either Henriette, a Pacific storm that hit Mexico, or Felix, an Atlantic storm that hit Nicaragua and Honduras. They hit very close to the same time, within a day or so of each other - this week - so I'm not actually sure which one hit land first, but I know Felix dissipated before Henriette.

Check the (US) National Hurricane Center's site:http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Answer 4

Felix. I count the Yucitan as North America.

Read this sweet article on Hurricanes...http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/355818/why_hurricanes_are_getting_worse_and.html

Answer 5

Last Hurricane to Impact The United States was Hurricane Ernesto in 2006.

Ernesto had the greatest impact of the three storms that affected the U.S. in 2006 -- not all of it bad because it ended the drought in Maryland and other parts of the Northeast.

Ernesto became a tropical depression as it entered the Caribbean Sea and steadily intensified to storm strength. It turned and strengthened as upper winds steered it toward a northwest track. Ernesto briefly became a hurricane (75 mph for less than 24 hours) as it crept toward Haiti. Flooding rains there and in the Dominican Republic were by far the greatest impact from Ernesto. Five people died in Haiti.

The combination of land and marginal upper-level winds kept Ernesto a tropical storm as it moved along the northeast coast of Cuba, then on through the northeast Florida Keys as a 45-mph tropical storm, making a second landfall on the south tip of mainland Florida. Shortly after, it weakened to a tropical depression until it moved offshore into the western Atlantic near Daytona Beach where once again it strengthened to a tropical storm.

Ernesto reached a secondary intensity peak of 70 mph as it made landfall a third time near Long Beach, N.C., on August 31. It maintained tropical storm intensity to the Virginia border, then weakened to a depression in southeast Virginia.

Heavy rains, storm surges along bays and rivers, and three tornadoes flooded and damaged numerous homes and business in North Carolina. Ernesto's heavy rains in Florida led to flooding in about a dozen homes near Lake Okeechobee. Total U.S. losses are estimated at $500 million.

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