1683 — Florida East Coast Hurricane                                                         —   496

Compiled by Wayne Blanchard January 9, 2024 for upload to: http://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

—  496  Rappaport and Partagas. The Deadliest Atlantic Tropical Cyclones 1492-1994. 1995.

Narrative Information

Rappaport and Partagas. The Deadliest Atlantic Tropical Cyclones 1492-1994. 1995:

“58. [number 58 on list of largest loss of life hurricanes]…Florida east coast…1683…496 [deaths].”[1]

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Dept. of Commerce (NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS NHC-47).  The Deadliest Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, 1492-1994 (Rappaport, Edward N. and Jose Fernandez-Partagas).  Miami, National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service, Jan 1995. Accessed at: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NWS-NHC-1995-47.pdf

[1] Cites: Singer, S., 1992: Shipwrecks of Florida. Pineapple Press, Inc., 368 pp. Notes that “tropial cyclone status in doubt for at least part of event.”