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1881 Atlantic hurricane season — Wikipedia (en)

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The 1881 Atlantic hurricane season featured a tropical cyclone that remains one of the deadliest in the history of the United States. Seven tropical storms are known to have developed, four of which strengthened into hurricanes, though none of those intensified into a major hurricane. However, in the absence of modern satellite and other remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea were recorded, so the actual total could be higher. In 2004, meteorologist Christopher Landsea concluded that the official hurricane database (HURDAT) excludes zero to six tropical cyclones per year between 1851 and 1885 and zero to four per year between 1886 and 1910. Of the known 1881 cyclones, the third and seventh systems were both first documented in 1996 by José Fernández-Partagás and Henry F. Diaz. They also proposed changes to the known tracks of fourth and fifth storms. Later, the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project did not add or remove any cyclones from HURDAT. However, climate researcher Michael Chenoweth authored a reanalysis study, published in 2014, which concluded that the 1881 season featured a total of twelve tropical cyclones. This included the removal of the second system and the addition of six previously undocumented storms, for a net gain of five cyclones. Chenoweth also proposed some alterations to the track and intensity of each storm, but these changes have yet to be incorporated into HURDAT. The first storm of the season was first noted over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico on August 1. Two days later, the cyclone struck Alabama and dissipated on August 4 over east-central Mississippi. August featured five systems, with the season's fifth storm peaking as a Category 2 hurricane on the present-day Saffir–Simpson scale. Making landfall in Georgia, the cyclone caused approximately 700 deaths and at least $1.7 million (1881 USD) in damage in the state and in South Carolina. In September, the season's sixth storm, a Category 2 hurricane also struck North Carolina, inflicting about a damage total of about $100,000. Additionally, the fifth and sixth systems caused numerous fatalities due to ships capsizing. The season's seventh and final system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone well east of Newfoundland on September 22.

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