Hypercane Katia (also referred to as Superstorm Katia or The Storm of the Century II) was the first hypercane ever recorded in history. It was also the deadliest, costliest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, and also produced the highest winds recorded on the surface of the Earth measured by Hurricane Hunters: 549 miles per hour (884 km/h). The eleventh named storm, seventh hurricane and sixth major hurricane of the hyperactive and record-breaking 2041 Atlantic hurricane season, Katia formed out of a vigorous tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa on August 7, while continuing westward across the Atlantic. Development did not occur until just before the wave reached the Lesser Antilles, where organization quickly took over and developed into a tropical storm while
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| - Hypercane Katia (also referred to as Superstorm Katia or The Storm of the Century II) was the first hypercane ever recorded in history. It was also the deadliest, costliest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, and also produced the highest winds recorded on the surface of the Earth measured by Hurricane Hunters: 549 miles per hour (884 km/h). The eleventh named storm, seventh hurricane and sixth major hurricane of the hyperactive and record-breaking 2041 Atlantic hurricane season, Katia formed out of a vigorous tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa on August 7, while continuing westward across the Atlantic. Development did not occur until just before the wave reached the Lesser Antilles, where organization quickly took over and developed into a tropical storm while
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| - Hypercane Katia (also referred to as Superstorm Katia or The Storm of the Century II) was the first hypercane ever recorded in history. It was also the deadliest, costliest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, and also produced the highest winds recorded on the surface of the Earth measured by Hurricane Hunters: 549 miles per hour (884 km/h). The eleventh named storm, seventh hurricane and sixth major hurricane of the hyperactive and record-breaking 2041 Atlantic hurricane season, Katia formed out of a vigorous tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa on August 7, while continuing westward across the Atlantic. Development did not occur until just before the wave reached the Lesser Antilles, where organization quickly took over and developed into a tropical storm while situated to the east of the Antilles late on August 15. The storm gradually strengthened until entering the western Caribbean Sea on August 20, where unprecedented explosive deepening took place, and Katia went from a tropical storm to a Category 6 in 24 hours – a record pace. It eventually attained its peak intensity in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico on August 29 before striking near New Orleans, Louisiana as a slightly weaker storm on September 1. It rapidly weakened while inland and eventually dissipated on September 9. Up to $1 trillion in damages were attributed to the storm, making Katia the costliest tropical cyclone on record. It also killed more then 100,000 people, making it the deadliest such storm on record, surpassing that of the Great Hurricane of 1780, nearly 260 years earlier. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) described the cyclone as "a warning sign that global warming is occurring and that we need to stop it before more storms of this magnitude strike causing more catastrophic damages and loss of life".
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