The name Dorian was used for two

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. ''Dorian'' replaced ''

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Hurricane Dorian Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone, which became the most intense on record to strike The Bahamas. It is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic basin in term ...

(2019)a Category 5 hurricane that became the costliest hurricane to affect the Bahamas and the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in terms of maximum sustained winds. ''Dorian'' was itself retired after its 2019 usage, and it will be replaced by ''Dexter'' for subsequent seasons.

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