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1917 Atlantic Hurricane Season




  Last Storm Dissipated Sept 29 , 1917
  Strongest Storm #2, 3 - 105 knots (120 mph)
  Total Storms 3
  Major Storms 2
  Total Damages $17 million (1917 USD)
  Total Fatalities 5
  Basin Atlantic hurricane
  Five Seasons 1915 , 1916 , '''1917''', 1918 , 1919


1917 was a very inactive season. Only three tropical cyclones formed this season. Two of them were hurricanes; the other was a Tropical Storm that stayed out to sea. The first Hurricane stayed largely out to sea. It passed about a dozen miles off Bermuda but did little else. The second hurricane was the most destructive. It kept close to the islands of the Greater Antilles , passing over Cuba as a Category 3 . After moving into the Gulf Of Mexico , it swerved northeast toward the Florida Panhandle . It hit near Fort Walton Beach as a Category 2 and dissipated inland. The hurricane killed five people and caused $170,000 in damage in the US.


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