1901 Atlantic hurricane season

Infobox hurricane season | name=1901 Atlantic hurricane season
first storm formed=June 11, 1901
last storm dissipated=November 6, 1901
strongest storm=#6 - 90 knots (100 mph)
total storms=12
major storms=0
total da

total fatalities=10
basin=Atlantic hurricane
five seasons=1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903 The 1901 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and early fall of 1901. The season was average, with twelve tropical storms, of which none became major.

torms

Tropical Storm One

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=June 11, 1901
Dissipated=June 15, 1901
1-min winds=35
Pressure=The season had an early start with a tropical storm forming near the Isle of Youth on June 11. It passed Cuba and moved through the Gulf of Mexico as a weak tropical storm, finally hitting land on the Florida Panhandle on June 14.

Tropical Storm Two

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=July 1, 1901
Dissipated=July 10, 1901
1-min winds=60
Pressure=The next storm formed on July 1 east of Venezuela. It moved briskly through the Caribbean Sea, hitting Jamaica and the western tip of Cuba on the way, and finally made landfall in Southeast Texas as a minimal tropical storm.

Hurricane Three

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=July 4, 1901
Dissipated=July 13, 1901
1-min winds=70
Pressure=Another July storm formed near the same location as the previous storm on July 4. It moved westward, hitting the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as a tropical storm. The storm strengthened to hurricane strength, hit the Outer Banks, and looped around to hit near the North Carolina/South Carolina border.

Hurricane Four

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=August 2, 1901
Dissipated=August 18, 1901
1-min winds=80
Pressure=973The season's fourth storm had an unusual origin southwest of the Azores Islands on August 2. It moved west-southwestward for six days before reaching tropical storm strength near the Bahamas. It hit near West Palm Beach on August 10, crossed South Florida. It hit Grand Isle, Louisiana on August 14th, producing levee breeches which flooded New Orleans, and destroying every building in Port Eads, Louisiana other than the lighthouse. It hit near Gulfport, Mississippi on the August 16, after causing 10 deaths and over $1 million in damage (1901 USD).

Tropical Storm Five

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=August 18, 1901
Dissipated=August 22, 1901
1-min winds=45
Pressure=The fifth storm formed and moved through Grenada in middle August.

Hurricane Six

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=August 29, 1901
Dissipated=September 11, 1901
1-min winds=90
Pressure=The next storm, a Cape Verde-type hurricane, made it to 105 mph winds before going out to sea.

Hurricane Seven

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=September 9, 1901
Dissipated=September 19, 1901
1-min winds=70
Pressure=Tropical Storm Seven moved through the northern Lesser Antilles and the Greater Antilles, recurved, and hit near Pensacola, Florida in early to middle September.

Tropical Storm Eight

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=September 12, 1901
Dissipated=September 17, 1901
1-min winds=50
Pressure=The season's eighth storm formed and died off the coast of Africa.

Tropical Storm Nine

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=September 21, 1901
Dissipated=October 2, 1901
1-min winds=45
Pressure=The ninth storm of the season formed in the central Caribbean, moved northward through Cuba, and hit the Florida Panhandle in late September.

Tropical Storm Ten

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=October 5, 1901
Dissipated=October 14, 1901
1-min winds=60
Pressure=
Prewinds=≥The tenth storm remained out at sea.

Tropical Storm Eleven

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=October 15, 1901
Dissipated=October 18, 1901
1-min winds=50
Pressure=Tropical Storm Eleven formed south of Cuba, crossed over, and strengthened before becoming extratropical.

Hurricane Twelve

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=Atl

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Formed=October 12, 1901
Dissipated=November 6, 1901
1-min winds=70
Pressure=The final storm formed north of Puerto Rico in late October, reached hurricane strength southeast of Bermuda, and dissipated in early November.

ee also

*List of tropical cyclones
*List of Atlantic hurricane seasons

References

* [http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/easyhurdat_5105.html#1901_1 HURDAT Data for the 1901 Atlantic hurricane season]

External links

* [http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/lib1/nhclib/mwreviews/1901.pdf Monthly Weather Review]