The name Floyd was used for four
tropical cyclone
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s in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Hurricane Floyd (1981)
The 1981 Atlantic hurricane season featured direct or indirect impacts from nearly all of its 12 tropical or subtropical storms. Overall, the season was fairly active, with 22 tropical depressions, 12 of which became a namable st ...
– caused heavy rainfall on the Leeward Islands, then passed near Bermuda but caused no major damage.
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Hurricane Floyd (1987)
Hurricane Floyd was the only hurricane to make landfall in the United States in the 1987 Atlantic hurricane season. The final of seven tropical storms and three hurricanes, Floyd developed on October 9 just off the east coast of Nicaragua. ...
– crossed over Cuba and impacted the Florida Keys and the
Bahamas
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, but no major damage.
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Hurricane Floyd (1993)
The 1993 Atlantic hurricane season was a below average Atlantic hurricane season that produced ten tropical cyclones, eight tropical storms, four hurricanes, and one major hurricane. It officially started on June 1 and ended on November&nbs ...
– made a circuit of the Atlantic before striking Brittany as a strong extratropical storm.
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Hurricane Floyd
Hurricane Floyd was a very powerful Cape Verde hurricane which struck the Bahamas and the East Coast of the United States. It was the sixth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane in the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. Floyd tr ...
(1999) – deadliest United States hurricane in 27 years, killing 56 in the U.S. and one in the Bahamas, and causing $4.5 billion in damage, at the time the third-costliest storm in U.S. history.
The name ''Floyd'' was retired after the 1999 season, and was replaced by ''
Franklin
Franklin may refer to:
People
* Franklin (given name)
* Franklin (surname)
* Franklin (class), a member of a historical English social class
Places Australia
* Franklin, Tasmania, a township
* Division of Franklin, federal electoral d ...
'' in the 2005 season.
The name Floyd has also been used to name one tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Severe Tropical Cyclone Floyd (2006)
Severity or Severely may refer to:
* ''Severity'' (video game), a canceled video game
* "Severely" (song), by South Korean band F.T. Island
See also
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– a storm that peaked at Category 4 on the Australian intensity scale.
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Atlantic hurricane set index articles
Australian region cyclone set index articles