Hurricane Dorian

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Hurricane Dorian was a catastrophic Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2019 that devastated parts of the Bahamas, especially the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama, and became one of the strongest storms on record for the region.

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instanceOf 2019 Atlantic hurricane season storm
Atlantic hurricane
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane
affectedCountry Bahamas
Barbados
British Virgin Islands
Canada
Dominican Republic
Martinique
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia
Puerto Rico
Saint Lucia
Turks and Caicos Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
United States of America
surface form: United States

East Coast of the United States
surface form: United States East Coast
basin Atlantic Ocean
damageEstimate about 3.4 billion USD in the Bahamas
dissipatedOn 2019-09-10
eyewallReplacementCycles multiple
fatalities over 70 direct and indirect deaths
firstCategory5LandfallDate 2019-09-01
firstCategory5LandfallLocation Elbow Cays
surface form: Elbow Cay, Abaco Islands, Bahamas
firstClassifiedAs tropical depression
firstClassifiedAsDate 2019-08-24
formedFrom tropical wave
formedOn 2019-08-24
impactedUSState Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
madeLandfallCountry Bahamas
madeLandfallOn Grand Bahama
Great Abaco Island
maximum1MinuteSustainedWinds 185 mph
295 km/h
maximumCategory Category 5
minimumCentralPressure 910 hPa
monitoredBy National Hurricane Center
movementCharacteristic stalled over Grand Bahama for many hours
namedAfter Dorian
nameRetiredBy World Meteorological Organization
nameRetirementYear 2021
notableFor devastation in Grand Bahama
devastation in the Abaco Islands
one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record at landfall
one of the strongest hurricanes to strike the Bahamas
ocean Atlantic Ocean
partOf 2019 Atlantic hurricane season
peakIntensityComparison tied with Hurricane Gilbert, Hurricane Wilma, and Hurricane Allen for Atlantic sustained wind speed
postTropicalLandfallLocation Nova Scotia
surface form: Nova Scotia, Canada
postTropicalTransitionDate 2019-09-07
reachedCategory5On 2019-09-01
replacementName Dexter
retiredName Dorian
secondBahamasLandfallDate 2019-09-01
secondBahamasLandfallLocation Grand Bahama
surface form: Eastern Grand Bahama Island
transitionedTo post-tropical cyclone
upgradedToHurricaneDate 2019-08-28

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Abaco Islands experiencedEvent Hurricane Dorian