page_title: Hurricane Hugo
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Hurricane Hugo / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: 330-CFD-DN-ST-90-00466: Hurricane Hugo, 1989. Sailors in an Avon inflatable craft from the dock landing ship USS Pensacola (LSD 38) approach a beached sailboat. They are part of the military disaster relief in the wake of the Hurricane Hugo at Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, September 1, 1989. Photographed by PH2 Mark Kettenhofen. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/09/12).
context_page_description: Hurricane Hugo was a powerful Cape Verde tropical cyclone that inflicted widespread damage across the northeastern Caribbean and the Southeastern United States in September 1989. Across its track
  , Hugo affected approximately 2 million people. Its direct effects killed 67 people and inflicted $11 billion in damage. The damage wrought by the storm was more costly than any Atlantic hurricane preceding it. At its peak strength east of the Lesser Antilles, Hugo was classified as a Category 5 hurricane—the highest rating on the Saffir–Simpson scale. Over the course of five days, Hugo made landfalls on Guadeloupe, Saint Croix, Puerto Rico, and South Carolina, bringing major hurricane conditions to these and surrounding areas. Lesser effects were felt along the periphery of the hurricane's path in the Lesser Antilles and across the Eastern United States into Eastern Canada. The scale of Hugo's impacts led to the retirement of the name Hugo from Atlantic hurricane names.
  Hugo arose from a cluster of thunderstorms near Cape Verde on September 10, 1989. This cluster coalesced into a tropical depression and strengthened into a tropical storm—named Hugo—as it tracked west for several days.
context_section_description: The devastation caused by Hugo led to the name's retirement from the World Meteorological Organization's cyclic list of Atlantic hurricane names in 1990; it was replaced by Humberto when the naming list for 1989 was used in 1995.
caption: Relief crews attending a beached sailboat in Saint Croix
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