- Hurricane Faith
Infobox Hurricane
Name=Hurricane Faith
Type=hurricane
Year=1966
Basin=Atl
Image location=Hurricane Faith 1966.jpg
Cape Hatteras on theNorth Carolina coast.
Formed=August 21, 1966
Dissipated=September 6, 1966
1-min winds=110
Pressure=950
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Fatalities=4 direct
Inflated=
Areas=Lesser Antilles ,Bermuda ,Faroe Islands ,Denmark ,Norway
Hurricane season=1966 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Faith was a long lived Cape Verde-type
hurricane during the1966 Atlantic hurricane season . The August storm formed near theCape Verde Islands and crossed theAtlantic Ocean , reaching Category 3 status as it by passed the northernCaribbean Islands and theBahamas . Faith survived 18 days as atropical cyclone and maintained hurricane strength for ten consecutive days. [ [http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/at196606.asp : Weather Underground ] ] It was the sixth named storm and fifth hurricane of the 1966 season.Faith brushed the
Leeward Islands as a Category 1 hurricane and paralleled the northernCaribbean islands as a strongCategory 2 hurricane. Later, Faith struckFaroe Islands andNorway as a powerfulextratropical storm . There were four fatalities as a result of Faith and only minimal damage due to the sparse population.Meteorological history
After forming on August 21, 1966 as a
Cape Verde-type hurricane , Faith moved steadily westward, strengthening as it did so. It curved slowly north as it neared theLeeward Islands and peaked as a Category 3 storm east of theBahamas as the system headed north-northeast. The hurricane soon dropped back down to a Category 2 storm, and continued on a steady northeast track. [http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/lib1/nhclib/mwreviews/1966.pdf 1966 Monthly Weather Review] ]When the storm passed Newfoundland, not only was it still a tropical system, it was still a Category 2 hurricane. Faith struck the
Faroe Islands on September 5 with sustained winds still over 100 mph and only then did the storm cease to be a tropical system. The newextratropical storm went on to strikeNorway with winds as high as 60 mph. Faith weakened to an extratropical depression overScandinavia and was tracked overRussia , later degenerating into an extratropical low and swerving north.Traveling from the
Leeward Islands to Newfoundland thenScandinavia , the remnantlow pressure area tracked as far north asFranz Josef Land , 300 miles from theNorth Pole .Impact and records
In the
Caribbean , the approach of Faith caused the Antigua tracking station (which was tracking an unmanned rocket launched byNASA ) to shutdown 45 minutes after therocket lifted off. [ [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4204/ch17-7.html Moonport, CH17-7 ] ] Faith also produced gale force winds across the northernLeeward Islands andPuerto Rico . The winds only did minor damage and there were no reported fatalities or injuries. [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/storm_wallets/atlantic/atl1966-prelim/faith/prelim02.gif] Rough seas from Faith, brought 10-15 ft waves toTrinidad and Tobago . The waves caused minor damage to small boats and jetties. [http://nema.gov.tt/resources/downloads/tropicalcyclones.pdf] InBermuda , the outer rainbands of Hurricane Faith produced heavy rainfall and winds gusting to 62 mph. [ [http://bermuda-online.org/climateweather.htm Bermuda Climate and Weather ] ] Four people died as a result of the storm; none of them were on land. One man was pitched overboard when his boat was battered by heavy seas. Two others drowned while trying to cross theAtlantic in arowboat . Another man was missing and presumed dead after heavy seas forced him and his shipmates to abandon their boat off the north coast ofDenmark . Property damage was minimal, mainly because the areas impacted by Faith were sparsely populated. [ [http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/storm66.html Canadian Hurricane Centre Report] ]Faith traveled farther and to the most northerly latitude of any
Atlantic hurricane . Faith was also one of the longest duration tropical cyclones in theAtlantic Ocean on record, lasting 16 days total and spending 13 as a hurricane.Because the storm did no major damage, the name Faith was not retired. However changes in the naming lists in 1970 and 1979 prevented further use of the name Faith. In 1998, the name Faith was used to name a pacific typhoon during the
1998 Pacific typhoon season . Today, the name Faith is not on theAtlantic ,East Pacific ,West Pacific orSouthern Hemisphere naming lists.ee also
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List of Atlantic hurricanes References
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