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A Category 4 hurricane, Hurricane Dean, caused some deaths and heavy damage to Jamaica in August 2007.
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* 2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
* On 17 September 1989, Category 4 Hurricane Hugo caused very extensive damage, left more than 35, 000 homeless, destroyed 10, 000 homes, 100 percent of the banana crops, and 60 percent of the sugar cane crops.
* On 17 September 1989, Category 4 Hurricane Hugo caused very extensive damage, left more than 35, 000 homeless, destroyed 10, 000 homes, 100 percent of the banana crops, and 60 percent of the sugar cane crops.
* Category 4: Civil firearms ; According to French law, a civil firearm is a semi automatic long gun with more of 2 rounds in magazine which don't use a military gauge, or a handgun ( pistol or revolver, including all magazine capacities ) which doesn't have a gauge used by the army.
* 1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
In 1938, he wrote an allegorical novel In Hazard based on the true story of the S. S. Phemius that was caught in the Category 5 1932 Cuba hurricane for 4 days during its peak intensity.
EBOV is a select agent, World Health Organization Risk Group 4 Pathogen ( requiring Biosafety Level 4-equivalent containment ), National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Category A Priority Pathogen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Category A Bioterrorism Agent, and listed as a Biological Agent for Export Control by the Australia Group.
On August 13, 2004 Charlotte County was devastated when Hurricane Charley came ashore near Port Charlotte as a Category 4 hurricane.
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As late as August 31 it had been projected by the National Hurricane Center that the hurricane would remain at Category 3 or above on September 1, but in the event the center of Gustav made landfall as a strong Category 2 hurricane ( 1 mph below Category 3 ), and dropped to Category 1 soon after.
* 1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
* 2004 – Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90 % of its buildings.
Katrina was a Category 3 hurricane when it struck although it had been a category 5 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.
* September 2 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States landfalls in the Upper Florida Keys as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds, killing 423.
* August 25 – The Great Colonial Hurricane strikes Narragansett Bay as a possible Category 3 hurricane, killing over 46 people.
*** Hurricane Irene – Olivia, struck Nicaragua as a Category 1 hurricane, then tracked to the Eastern Pacific Ocean and became Eastern Pacific's hurricane Olivia
*** Hurricane Irene ( 1981 ), part of the 1981 Atlantic hurricane season, Category 3 hurricane ; moved across the Atlantic both ways, eventually hitting France as an extratropical storm
*** Hurricane Irene ( 1999 ), Category 2 hurricane ; passed over Cuba and struck Florida, causing $ 800 million ( 1999 USD ) in damage
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* 1969 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $ 1. 5 billion in damage.
In 1979, Dominica was hit directly by Category 5 Hurricane David, causing widespread and extreme damage.
* Two years later, on 27 September 1966, Category 3 Hurricane Inez caused very extensive damage mostly in Grande-Terre and north Basse-Terre Island and killed 33 people.
* August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille, the most powerful tropical cyclonic system at landfall in history, hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US $ 1. 5 billion in damage ( 1969 dollars ).
* July 12 – Hurricane Bertha: made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $ 270 million in damage to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths.
* August 23 – Hurricane Andrew attains Category 5 status on the Saffir – Simpson Hurricane Scale, and at 2100 UTC hits Eleuthera and the Bahama Banks.
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