2007 Atlantic hurricane season

**2007 Atlantic hurricane season**
 **Total damage** | > $3.426 billion (2007 USD)

The **2007 Atlantic hurricane season** was an active one in terms of named storms, but most of the storms were weak and short-lived. This season was notable for having two category 5 hurricanes - Dean and Felix - and the first season in which two category 5 hurricanes made landfall at this intensity. This season began relatively early, with the formation of Subtropical Storm Andrea on May 9. The season ended fairly late as well, with the post-season Tropical Storm Olga dissipating on December 12. This season featured a total of 17 total depressions, 15 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and only 2 major hurricanes.

## Storms

### Subtropical Storm Andrea

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Andrea formed off the southeast coast of the United States. It was the eighth earliest cyclone since 1851 and the first May cyclone since 1981.

### Tropical Storm Barry

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Barry was a short-lived tropical storm that brought beneficial rains to Florida.

### Tropical Storm Chantal

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Chantal was a short-lived tropical storm that moved roughly parallel to, but offshore from, the U.S. east coast.

### Hurricane Dean

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Dean was a classic Cape Verde cyclone that moved through the Caribbean as a major hurricane, passing very close to Jamaica and later making landfall on the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula as a category 5 hurricane. Dean, the first Atlantic hurricane since Andrew of 1992 to reach land at category 5 strength, was responsible for 32 deaths.

### Tropical Storm Erin

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Erin was a tropical storm that formed in the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall along the Texas coast as a tropical depression. The tropical cyclone directly caused nine fatalities and its remnants caused seven more, mostly as a result of inland flooding due to heavy rainfall. Erin will also be remembered for its unusual, brief strengthening, although not as a tropical cyclone, over Oklahoma.

### Hurricane Felix

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Hurricane Felix was a small, but powerful, category 5 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale) that caused major damage in northeastern Nicaragua.

### Tropical Storm Gabrielle

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Gabrielle was a tropical storm that made landfall along the Cape Lookout National Seashore in eastern North Carolina, and then exited the coast less than 12 hours later near Kill Devil Hills.

### Tropical Storm Ingrid

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Ingrid was a tropical storm that formed over the central tropical Atlantic Ocean and dissipated as it approached the Leeward Islands.

### Hurricane Humberto

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Humberto was a short-lived tropical cyclone that made landfall in extreme southeastern Texas as a strong category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale). The hurricane is notable for its exceptionally rapid intensification near the coast of Texas from a tropical depression into a hurricane within 19 hours.

### Tropical Depression Ten

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Tropical Depression Ten was a short-lived cyclone that formed over the eastern Gulf of Mexico on 21 September and made landfall early on 22 September along the Florida panhandle.

### Tropical Storm Jerry

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Jerry was a short-lived tropical cyclone over the far northeastern Atlantic.

### Hurricane Karen

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Karen was briefly a hurricane over the tropical Atlantic. It did not threaten land, and it dissipated just to the east of the Leeward Islands.

### Hurricane Lorenzo

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Hurricane Lorenzo was a category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale) that made landfall in Mexico south of Tuxpan - in virtually the same location that Hurricane Dean had struck a month earlier.

### Tropical Storm Melissa

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Melissa was a short-lived tropical storm over the eastern Atlantic that formed near the Cape Verde Islands but did not affect land.

### Tropical Depression Fifteen

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### Hurricane Noel

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Noel took an erratic track across Hispaniola and Cuba as a tropical storm before becoming a hurricane as it exited the northwestern Bahamas. Torrential rainfall from Noel produced devastating floods and loss of life in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, eastern Cuba and the Bahamas. Noel then evolved into a large and powerful extratropical cyclone that brought hurricane force wind gusts to portions of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.

### Tropical Storm Olga

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Olga was a short-lived out of season tropical storm that produced torrential rains, flooding, and loss of life across portions of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Olga’s remnants continued across the northwestern Caribbean Sea and into the eastern Gulf of Mexico before being absorbed by a cold front over central Florida.

## Storm names

* Barry
* Chantal
* Dean
* Erin
* Felix
* Gabrielle
* Ingrid
* Jerry
* Karen
* Lorenzo
* Melissa
* Noel
* Pablo *(unused)*
* Rebekah *(unused)*
* Sebastien *(unused)*
* Tanya *(unused)*
* Van *(unused)*
* Wendy *(unused)*

### Retirement

On May 13, 2008, at the 30th Session of the World Meteorological Organization's Regional Association IV Hurricane Committee, the WMO retired the names Dean, Felix, and Noel from its rotating name lists. The names were replaced with *Dorian*, *Fernand*, and *Nestor* for the 2013 season.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL012007\_Andrea.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL022007\_Barry.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL032007\_Chantal.pdf
4. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL042007\_Dean.pdf
5. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL052007\_Erin.pdf
6. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL062007\_Felix.pdf
7. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL072007\_Gabrielle.pdf
8. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL082007\_Ingrid.pdf
9. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092007\_Humberto.pdf
10. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL102007\_Ten.pdf
11. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL112007\_Jerry.pdf
12. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL122007\_Karen.pdf
13. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL132007\_Lorenzo.pdf
14. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142007\_Melissa.pdf
15. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL162007\_Noel.pdf
16. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL172007\_Olga.pdf