Forming in the western Caribbean sea during the first week of November, Hurricane Gordon became the twelfth tropical depression, the seventh named tropical storm, and the third hurricane of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season. An erratic, long-lived system which remained a tropical storm for most of its existence, it followed a winding path through the western Caribbean and into Florida before strengthening into a Category 1 hurricane and threaten...
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Forming in the western Caribbean sea during the first week of November, Hurricane Gordon became the twelfth tropical depression, the seventh named tropical storm, and the third hurricane of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season. An erratic, long-lived system which remained a tropical storm for most of its existence, it followed a winding path through the western Caribbean and into Florida before strengthening into a Category 1 hurricane and threatening North Carolina. Gordon was a catastrophic storm in Haiti, killing an estimated 1,122 people.
Widespread convection persisted in the southwestern Caribbean Sea during early November, which was enhanced by the passage of two tropical waves passing through the area. The second produced a low-level circulation just north of Panama early on November 6. Convection slowly organized as it drifted northwestward, and by 1200 UTC on November 7 the circulation displayed enough curvature to warrant initiating Dvorak technique estimates. Late the next...
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