Ranking of Hurricanes

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

Philip Klotzbach, meteorologist at Colorado State University, has helpfully tweeted a listing of hurricanes in order of their intensity (since they began recording such things.) As I thought, the infamous "Labor Day" hurricane of 1935 was the worst, with Irma coming in tied for 7th. As you go down the chart, it's interesting to see the hurricanes that don't have names of people attacted to them-- that was a relatively late development.

Now, I've not tried to link to a twitter account before, so don't know if this link will go right to the chart, or start of the top of his tweets. If so, you must scroll pretty far down to see the chart...

https://twitter.com/philklotzbach

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

Rats, you do have to scroll down, I just discovered. He tweeted it on September 10, if that helps...

Preds · ‎12-17-2012

Fate whispers to her, "You cannot withstand the storm." She whispers back, "I am the storm."

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

My opinion? No matter the category or the ranking - the worst storm is the one that hits you.

AngusandBuddhasMom · ‎03-10-2010

@millieshops wrote:
My opinion? No matter the category or the ranking - the worst storm is the one that hits you.

Exactly. The devastation of Sandy on NY and NJ is still being felt 5 years later. So this list means nothing since Sandy is not on it.

garmer · ‎03-16-2010

Thank you @Oznell. That's a very interesting chart, I appreciate you sharing it with us.

The Weather Channel had a program on last night that featured many of those same storms. Awful, all of them. The Galveston and Labor Day storms seemed the most gruesome, to me. Just terrifying...

kelsey17 · ‎04-10-2012

@AngusandBuddhasMom wrote:
@millieshops wrote:
My opinion? No matter the category or the ranking - the worst storm is the one that hits you.
Exactly. The devastation of Sandy on NY and NJ is still being felt 5 years later. So this list means nothing since Sandy is not on it.

Exactly......i live on L.I. and Hurricane Gloria was devastating......On the street where we lived huge oaks were blown down no one could get out for about 3 days and all the neighbors had to come out themselves with the power saws to cut us out of our neighborhood...no electric for quite a few days...........I was young with a 3mth old at that time and the huge trees were coming down around our home...luckily there were no direct hits on the house....our vehicle got a few bumps....absolutely terrifying....we got hit by Sandy also...but not the damage NJ and parts of western NY got.....I still cringe when i think of Gloria as i am sure you are with Sandy.......

hope neither of us has to face those nightmares any time soon...

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

Harvey = 50 inches of rain. R.e.a.l.l.y hard to argue with that.

I realize this 'ranking' is just the hurricane itself, but there's

so much more than that, as we all know by now.

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

hurricane chart.jpg

Philip Klotzbach‏Verified account @philklotzbach Sep 10

Table of all hurricanes with landfall pressures <= 940 mb at time of U.S. landfall. #Irma was 929 mb and #Harvey was 938 mb.

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willdob3 · ‎11-01-2010

@AngusandBuddhasMom wrote:
@millieshops wrote:
My opinion? No matter the category or the ranking - the worst storm is the one that hits you.
Exactly. The devastation of Sandy on NY and NJ is still being felt 5 years later. So this list means nothing since Sandy is not on it.

Exactly. Having been through 4 or 5 of them, I can say that from experience. A category 1 can be devestating if it hits where you are.