Sentences with phrase «intense at landfall»
[Harvey] has the dual threat of both being very intense at landfall and producing widespread flooding at the same time.»
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It was the first recorded hurricane to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir - Simpson Hurricane Scale in the Atlantic basin; it remains the only recorded hurricane to strike Puerto Rico at Category 5 strength, and one of the ten most intense ever recorded to make landfall in the United States.
Older data from the North Atlantic and Western North Pacific (which together represents 64 % of all global intense landfalling hurricanes 1970 - 2010 and 69 % of all hurricanes) indicates that landfalling intense hurricanes in these two basins occurred at a 40 % higher rate from 1950 - 1969 than 1970 - 2010.