Gimme some history

[PTPatrick]

Okay stats people(I know there is a stats guru on here somewhere)...I would like to know:

1: What years have had hits from multiple major hurricanes?
2: Has the US ever been struck by 2 cat 4(or 5) storms in one year.
3: Might any of these years be analog years?

The reason I ask is I have read in a few places that this could be a big year for US hits. I am also watching Earl from the northern gulf coast and would like to know if he becomes a cat 3 and hits, if that would be the first time we got a cat 3 and 4 in the same year.

[SouthernWx]

Seasons in which the U.S. was struck by 2 or more major hurricanes:

1848:
130 mph cat-3 into Tampa on September 25th...followed three weeks later by a 120 mph cat-3 in the same area (two direct hits on the Tampa Bay region a month apart...and ONLY 1 direct hit by a major cane since then [Oct. 1921]...strange but true).


1879:
115 mph cat-3 into North Carolina on August 18th....followed by a 125 mph cat-3 into Louisiana near Houma on September 1st.


1886:
very severe 155 mph cat-4 into central Texas on August 20th....then a 120 mph cat-3 into Lake Charles, LA on October 12th.


1893:
115-120 mph cat-3 into Savannah, GA/ Hilton Head, SC on August 27th....then a 135 mph cat-4 into SE Louisiana/ Mississippi/ Alabama on October 2nd...and finally a 120 mph cat-3 into SC near Myrtle Beach on October 13th.


1906:
115 mph cat-3 into Mississippi & Alabama in late September....followed by a 120 mph cat-3 into the Florida Keys and Miami on October 18th.


1909:
115 mph cat-3 near Galveston, Texas on July 21st....followed by a 125 mph cat-3 into SE Louisiana on September 21st...and finally a 120 mph cat-3 into the Florida Keys on October 11th.


1915:
140 mph cat-4 into Galveston, Texas on August 17th...followed by a 145 mph cat-4 into Grand Isle and New Orleans, Louisiana on September 29th (a repeat of that today would be catastrophic!!).


1916:
130 mph cat-3 into Mississippi and Alabama on July 4th.....then a 125-130 mph cat-3 into south Texas on August 19th.


1926:
120 mph cat-3 into Morgan City, LA on August 25th....followed by the 140 mph cat-4 "Great Miami hurricane" on September 18th (also hit the Florida panhandle and Alabama as a 125 mph cat-3 on 9/20).


1933:
125 mph cat-3 into Palm Beach, FL on September 3rd....followed by another 125 mph cat-3 into Brownsville, TX
the VERY NEXT day (Sept.4).....followed by a 120 mph cat-3 into the Outer Banks of North Carolina.


1944:
130 mph cat-3 roared up the Atlantic seaboard from North Carolina to New England on September 14-15....then a 115 mph cat-3 into Sarasota, Florida on October 18th.


1950:
120 mph cat-3 ("Easy") into Cedar Key, FL on September 5th-6th....then hurricane "King", a 125 mph cat-3 into downtown Miami, Florida on October 18th.


1954:
hurricane "Carol", a 120 mph cat-3 roared up the East Coast from Cape Hatteras to New England on August 31st.....Edna, a 125 mph cat-3 struck Cape Cod and Nantucket, Massachusetts on September 11th....the "Hazel", a monsterous 135 mph cat-4 slammed into the Carolinas near Myrtle Beach on October 15th.


1955:
"Connie", a 115 mph cat-3 into eastern North Carolina on August 12th...followed by "Ione", another 115-120 mph into the same area (Morehead City) of North Carolina on September 19th.


1985:
"Elena", a 120-125 mph cat-3 into Alabama and Mississippi on September 2nd....followed by "Gloria", a 120 mph cat-3 across the NC Outer Banks on September 26th.

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The only season in which two cat-4's struck the U.S.....1915.


The last time in which two major hurricanes struck the U.S.....1985.


The last time three major hurricanes struck the U.S.....1954.


There has never been a season in which more than three major hurricanes slammed the U.S...

[PTPatrick]

Thanks...I knew you would come through, Great research!