1936 Mid-Atlantic hurricane

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1936 Mid-Atlantic hurricane
A map of a tropical cyclone, displaying pressure differences as contours.
Surface weather analysis of the storm on September 18 at its closest approach to the United States
Meteorological history
FormedSeptember 8, 1936 (1936-09-08)
ExtratropicalSeptember 19
DissipatedSeptember 25, 1936 (1936-09-26)
Category 3 major hurricane
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/NWS)
Highest winds120 mph (195 km/h)
Lowest pressure962 mbar (hPa); 28.41 inHg
Overall effects
Fatalities2
Damage$4.05 million (1936 USD)
Areas affectedUnited States East Coast, Atlantic Canada

Part of the 1936 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1936 Mid-Atlantic hurricane (also referred to as 1936 Outer Banks hurricane) was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1936 Atlantic hurricane season, paralleling areas of the United States East Coast in September 1936. The thirteenth tropical cyclone and eighth hurricane of the year, the storm formed from a tropical disturbance in the central Atlantic Ocean on September 9.[1] Peaking as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale, the hurricane abruptly recurved out to sea near Virginia on September 18 without ever making landfall and transitioned into a hurricane-strength extratropical cyclone early the next day.[2]

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