The 2005 Hurricane Season is a multiple record breaker
Records broken during the 2005 hurricane season:
Most storms in a season (28)*, breaks record of 21 in 1933
Most hurricanes in a season (15), breaks 1969 record of 12
Most Category 5 Hurricanes (4) (Emily, Katrina, Rita, Wilma)
First ever V storm (Vince)
First ever W storm (Wilma)
First ever storm with name from Greek alphabet (Alpha)
Second ever storm with name from Greek alphabet (Beta)
Third ever storm with name from Greek alphabet (Gamma)
Fourth ever storm with name from Greek alphabet (Delta)
Fifth ever storm with name from Greek alphabet (Epsilon)
Sixth ever storm with name from Greek alphabet (Zeta)
Longest-lived December hurricane (Epsilon)
Longest-lived tropical storm into January (Zeta)
Strongest hurricane on record in Atlantic Basin (Wilma) (882 mb), breaks Gilbert's record of 888 mb
Three of the six strongest hurricanes on record in Atlantic (Wilma 882 mb, Rita 895 mb, Katrina 902 mb)
Costliest natural disaster in U.S. history (Katrina) (at least $80 billion)
Costliest Hurricane season for U.S. (at least $107 billion)
Deadliest hurricane in U.S. since 1928 (Katrina) (at least 1200 fatalities)
First known Atlantic tropical cyclone to strike Spain (Vince)
First time more than three major hurricanes made landfall in U.S. in one season (Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Wilma), breaks record from 2004
Strongest Gulf hurricane and only Category 5 in the month of July (Emily)
Earliest forming Category 5 hurricane the Atlantic basin (Emily)
Second strongest Gulf hurricane in the month of July (Dennis)
Most Tropical cyclones to develop in July (5)
Most major hurricanes to develop in July (2), tied with 1916
Most tropical cyclones to develop in June and July (7)
Earliest date for fourth (D) storm (Dennis on July 5) and most, if not all letters thereafter
Most tropical storms before August 1 (7), breaks record of five in 1997
Biggest two-year consecutive total of named storms (42), breaks record of 32 in 1995-96
Biggest two-year consecutive total of hurricanes (25), breaks record of 21 from 1886-87
Biggest two-year consecutive total of major hurricanes (13), ties record from 1950-51
Biggest two-year consecutive total of major hurricane landfalls (7), breaks record of 5 in 1954-55
Biggest two-year consecutive total of Florida major hurricane landfalls (5), breaks record of 3 in 1949-50
Biggest three-year consecutive total of named storms (58), breaks record of 43 in 2002-2004
Biggest three-year consecutive total of hurricanes (30), breaks record of 27 in 1886-88
Biggest three-year consecutive total of major hurricanes (16), ties record in 1949-51 & 1950-52
Note: Tropical records in the Atlantic have been kept for the past 150 years.
*The 28 storms include 27 named storms and one unnamed subtropical storm
Summary of
all 2005 storms
NOAA's news release
on the 2005 tropical season
Why have the past
several hurricane seasons been so active?
Thanks to the National Weather Service office in Tallahassee, FL
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