The name Floyd was used for four
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 in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Hurricane Floyd (1981) – caused heavy rainfall on the Leeward Islands, then passed near Bermuda but caused no major damage.
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Hurricane Floyd (1987) – crossed over Cuba and impacted the Florida Keys and the
Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. ...
, but no major damage.
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Hurricane Floyd (1993) – 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 and large tropical cyclone which struck the Bahamas and the East Coast of the United States. It was the sixth list of named tropical cyclones, named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane in the 1 ...
(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'' in the 2005 season.
The name Floyd has also been used to name one tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Cyclone Floyd (2006) – a storm that peaked at Category 4 on the Australian intensity scale.
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