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Hurricane Felix was the sixth named tropical cyclone and the third hurricane of the unusually...

Hurricane Felix was the sixth named tropical cyclone and the third hurricane of the unusually active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season. Though it never made landfall, Felix stalled off the coast of North Carolina, resulting in great uncertainty over its track. The hurricane caused eight deaths and severe beach erosion from North Carolina to Massachusetts. A tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa on August 6. Deep convection quickly organized around a center, and the system developed into Tropical Depression Seven on August 8 while a short distance southwest of the Cape Verde islands. The depression moved to the west-northwest, and 18 hours after forming it strengthened into a tropical storm, receiving the name Felix. It continued to slowly intensify as it headed west-northwestward, a motion caused by the subtropical ridge, and attained hurricane status on the 11th, while this 620 miles (1,000 km) east-northeast of Guadeloupe. A split in the deep-layered trough over the western Atlantic Ocean resulted in Felix turning to the northwest. There, where warm sea surface temperatures and little upper-level shear provided conditions favorable for intensification, the hurricane began to