2004 Atlantic hurricane season

**2004 Atlantic hurricane season**
 **Total damage** | $57.2 Billion (2004 USD)

The **2004 Atlantic hurricane season** was an above average season, and a destructive season. This season featured a total of 16 tropical cyclones, 15 named storms, 9 hurricanes, and 6 major hurricanes. This season was the most expensive season, until 2005. The strongest storm and costliest storm was Category 5 Hurricane Ivan, a Cape Verde-type hurricane that caused $23.3 Billion USD in damage.

## Storms

### Hurricane Alex

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Alex brought category 1 hurricane conditions to the North Carolina Outer Banks as its center passed just offshore, and later strengthened to a category 3 hurricane while near 38ΕN latitude. Only one other hurricane (Ellen of 1973) reached major hurricane status farther north than Alex.

### Tropical Storm Bonnie

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Tropical Storm Bonnie made landfall in the vicinity of St. Vincent Island, Florida as a weak tropical storm.

### Hurricane Charley

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Hurricane Charley strengthened rapidly just before striking the southwestern coast of Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Charley was the strongest hurricane to hit the United States since Andrew in 1992 and, although small in size, it caused catastrophic wind damage in Charlotte County, Florida. Serious damage occurred well inland over the Florida peninsula.

### Hurricane Danielle

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Danielle was a high-end category 2 hurricane that remained over the open waters of the far eastern Atlantic Ocean without threatening land.

### Tropical Storm Earl

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Earl was a short-lived tropical storm that moved quickly across the Windward Islands of the Caribbean with brief but heavy rains and winds up to 45 kt.

### Hurricane Frances

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Frances was a Cape Verde-type hurricane that reached a peak intensity of category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It affected the Bahamas as a category 3 hurricane and the Florida east coast as a category 2 hurricane.

### Hurricane Gaston

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Gaston was a category 1 hurricane that made landfall along the central South Carolina coast. After moving inland, Gaston produced heavy rainfall across portions of the Carolinas and Virginia. Flooding in the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area resulted in 8 deaths.

### Tropical Storm Hermine

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Tropical Storm Hermine affected southeast Massachusetts as a weakening tropical cyclone.

### Hurricane Ivan

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Ivan was a classical, long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that reached Category 5 strength three times on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale (SSHS). It was also the strongest hurricane on record that far south east of the Lesser Antilles. Ivan caused considerable damage and loss of life as it passed through the Caribbean Sea.

### Tropical Depression Ten

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 Peak intensity

### Hurricane Jeanne

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Jeanne produced heavy rain over Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and caused an estimated 3000 or more deaths in Haiti, from torrential rainfall flooding. Finally, Jeanne hit the northern Bahamas and then the central Florida east coast as a category three hurricane.

### Hurricane Karl

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Karl was a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale that traveled across the open central North Atlantic.

### Hurricane Lisa

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Lisa was a long-lived tropical cyclone that reached hurricane strength north of 40Ε latitude.

### Tropical Storm Matthew

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Matthew made landfall on the Louisiana coast as a tropical storm with 35 kt winds.

### Subtropical Storm Nicole

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Nicole was a short-lived subtropical storm that passed near Bermuda.

### Tropical Storm Otto

 Duration
 Peak intensity

Otto was a tropical storm that originated from a mid-latitude baroclinic system. The cyclone remained over the open Atlantic Ocean about midway between Bermuda and the Azores Islands.

## Storm names

* Bonnie
* Charley
* Danielle
* Earl
* Frances
* Gaston
* Ivan
* Jeanne
* Karl
* Lisa
* Matthew
* Nicole
* Paula *(unused)*
* Richard *(unused)*
* Shary *(unused)*
* Tomas *(unused)*
* Virginie *(unused)*
* Walter *(unused)*

### Retirement

In Spring 2005, it was announced the World Meteorological Organization had retired the names, Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne, for the damage and deaths caused by the storms. They were replaced with, Colin, Fiona, Igor, and Julia for the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL012004\_Alex.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL022004\_Bonnie.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL032004\_Charley.pdf
4. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL042004\_Danielle.pdf
5. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL052004\_Earl.pdf
6. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL062004\_Frances.pdf
7. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL072004\_Gaston.pdf
8. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL082004\_Hermine.pdf
9. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092004\_Ivan.pdf
10. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL112004\_Jeanne.pdf
11. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL122004\_Karl.pdf
12. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL132004\_Lisa.pdf
13. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142004\_Matthew.pdf
14. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL152004\_Nicole.pdf
15. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL162004\_Otto.pdf