Hurricane Emily

The name Emily has been used for fifteen

tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...

s worldwide, eight in the

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the ...

, five in the Eastern

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, and two in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Atlantic: * Hurricane Emily (1981) – crossed Bermuda *

Hurricane Emily (1987) Hurricane Emily was a powerful tropical cyclone that struck Hispaniola in September 1987. It was the first hurricane in the Caribbean Sea since Hurricane Katrina (1981), Hurricane Katrina of 1981 Atlantic hurricane season, 1981 and had the second- ...

– caused considerable damage to Saint Vincent, Dominican Republic, and Bermuda *

Hurricane Emily (1993) Hurricane Emily in 1993 caused record flooding in the Outer Banks of North Carolina while remaining just offshore. The fifth named storm and the first yet strongest hurricane of the 1993 Atlantic hurricane season, year's hurricane season, Emil ...

– came near Hatteras Island, North Carolina * Tropical Storm Emily (1999) – no threat to land, absorbed by Hurricane Cindy *

Hurricane Emily (2005) Hurricane Emily was the first July Atlantic hurricane to reach List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes, Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson scale. It remained the only to have done so until Hurricane Beryl, Beryl of 2024 Atlantic hurricane s ...

– Category 5 hurricane, caused damage in Grenada, and Quintana Roo, and Tamaulipas in Mexico *

Tropical Storm Emily (2011) Tropical Storm Emily was a weak Atlantic tropical cyclone that brought torrential rains to much of the northern Caribbean in 2011. The fifth named storm of the annual hurricane season, Emily developed from a strong but poorly organized tropical ...

– caused minor damage throughout the Caribbean *

Tropical Storm Emily (2017) Tropical Storm Emily was a rapidly-forming tropical cyclone that made landfall on the west coast of Florida. The fifth named storm of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Emily formed from a small area of low pressure that developed along a cold fr ...

– made landfall in Tampa, Florida *

Tropical Storm Emily (2023) The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season was the fourth-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 20 named storms forming, tied with 1933. Among them, 7 became hurricanes, with 3 reaching major hurricane strength. The seas ...

– no threat to land In the Eastern Pacific: *

Hurricane Emily (1963) The 1963 Pacific hurricane season was a below-average season, with 8 storms and 4 hurricanes forming. The season ran through the summer and fall of 1963. The strongest of these storms were Glenda and Mona, which both had winds. The first storm ...

– no threat to land *

Hurricane Emily (1965) The 1965 Pacific hurricane season officially started May 15, 1965, in the eastern Pacific, and June 1, 1965, in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1965. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical ...

– paralled the Baja California peninsula *

Tropical Storm Emily (1969) The 1969 Pacific hurricane season had below average tropical cyclone activity, with only ten named storms forming; most of these storms never approached land. Only four named storms reached hurricane strength, of which none became a major hurri ...

– developed from a low that caused flooding in southwestern Mexico *

Hurricane Emily (1973) The 1973 Pacific hurricane season was an above average season, with twelve named tropical cyclones in total. Seven storms became hurricanes, of which three were major (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale). The season official ...

– Category 4 hurricane that moved out to sea *

Tropical Storm Emily (1977) The 1977 Pacific hurricane season stands alongside 2010 as the least active Pacific hurricane season since reliable records began in 1971. Only eight tropical storms formed throughout the year; four further intensified into hurricanes, yet none ...

– no threat to land In the Southern Hemisphere: *

Tropical Depression Emily (1962) The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the equator, where the sun may shine directly overhead. This contrasts with the temperate or polar regions of Earth, where the Sun can never be directly overhead. This is because of Earth's axi ...

– short-lived storm, no threat to land *

Cyclone Emily (1972) In meteorology, a cyclone () is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anti ...

– off Queensland, eight lives lost at sea {{DEFAULTSORT:Emily Atlantic hurricane set index articles Pacific hurricane set index articles