When did the earliest hurricane on record hit the U.S. mainland?

When did the earliest and latest hurricanes occur ? The hurricane season is defined as June 1 through November 30. An early hurricane can be defined as occurring in the three months prior to the start of the season, and a late hurricane can be defined as occurring in the three months after the season. With these criteria the earliest observed hurricane in the Atlantic was on March 7, 1908, while the latest observed hurricane was on December 31, 1954, the second "Alice" of that year which persisted as a hurricane until January 5, 1955. The earliest hurricane to strike the United States since 1900 was Alma which struck northwest Florida on June 9, 1966. The latest hurricane to strike the United States was late on November 30, 1925 near Tampa, Florida.

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• What were the longest-lived and shortest-lived hurricanes? Ginger in 1971 holds the record for most days as a hurricane (20) and tropical cyclone (28) (includes depression stage). Many tropical cyclones remained at hurricane intensity for 12 hours or less.
• (5) What were the strongest and weakest hurricanes? In terms of central pressure (and probably winds), the strongest observed hurricane in the Atlantic basin was Gilbert in 1988 with a pressure of 888 millibars in the northwest Caribbean. The 1935 Labor Day hurricane in the Florida Keys, with a pressure of 892 millibars, was the most intense hurricane to strike the United States. Numerous hurricanes have reached only the minimum wind speed near 74 miles per hour and several have struck the United States.

What was the largest number of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean at the same time? According to information on the current version of the master data file of Neumann et al. (1999), until September 25, 1998 there had not been four hurricanes in the North Atlantic at the same time in over 100 years. Hurricanes Georges, Ivan, Jeanne and Karl persisted into September 27th, 1998 as hurricanes. One hundred five years earlier, on August 22, 1893 four hurricanes co-existed, one of them killing an estimated 1,000-2,000 people in Georgia-South Carolina. On September 11, 1961, three hurricanes and possibly a fourth occurred simultaneously. The only other years after 1900 with three hurricanes on the map at the same time were 1950 and 1967. In 1971 from September 10 to 12, there were five tropical cyclones at the same time; however, while most of these ultimately achieved hurricane intensity, there were never more than two hurricanes at any one time.
Source: National Hurricane Center

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