Hurricane Sandy: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia


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| Image location = Sandy Oct 25 2012 0400Z.JPG

| Image name = Hurricane Sandy at peak intensity on October 25

| Formed = October 22, 2012<ref>{{cite reportweb |title=TROPICAL DEPRESSION EIGHTEEN DISCUSSION NUMBER 1 |url= http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2012/al18/al182012.discus.001.shtml? |publisher= National Hurricane Center |accessdate=1 November 2012 |location=Miami, FL |language=English |date=22 October 2012 |quote= SATELLITE IMAGES AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA HAS ACQUIRED SUFFICIENT ORGANIZATION TO BE CLASSIFIED AS A TROPICAL DEPRESSION. THE EXACT CENTER IS STILL A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO PINPOINT...BUT THE SYSTEM HAS CLOSED SURFACE CIRCULATION...AND CONVECTIVE BANDING HAS INCREASED MARKEDLY SINCE OVERNIGHT. REFINEMENTS TO THE POSITION COULD BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY ONCE THE AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER

PLANE INVESTIGATES THE SYSTEM. }}</ref>

| Dissipated = October 31, 2012<ref>{{cite reportweb |title= Remnants of SANDY Advisory Number 36 |url=http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/tropical_advisories.php?storm=SANDY&adnum=36&dt=2012103109&status=remnants |publisher= Hydrometeorological Prediction Center |accessdate=1 November 2012 |location=College Park, MD |language=English |date=31 October 2012 |quote=AT 0500 AM EDT...0900 UTC...THERE WAS NO DISCERNIBLE SURFACE CIRCULATION FOR THE REMNANTS OF SANDY. SANDY HAS WEAKENED INTO A SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE OVER WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.}}</ref> <Br>(<small>[[extratropical cyclone|extratropical]] after October&nbsp;29</small>)<ref name=ExtraTropical-PostTropical/>

| 1-min winds = 95

| Pressure = 940

| Damages =

| Fatalities = 127165 total

| Areas = [[Greater Antilles]], [[Bahamas]], most of the eastern [[United States]] (especially the coastal [[Mid-Atlantic States]] and [[New England]]), [[Bermuda]], eastern [[Canada]]

| Hurricane season = [[2012 Atlantic hurricane season]]

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'''Hurricane Sandy''' was a [[tropical cyclone]] that severely affected portions of the [[Caribbean Sea|Caribbean]], [[Mid-Atlantic States|Mid-Atlantic]] and [[Northeastern States|Northeastern]] United States in late October 2012. It was the largest [[Atlantic]] [[tropical cyclone|hurricane]] in diameter on record, with winds spanning {{convert|1100|mi|km}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sandy Brings Hurricane-Force Gusts After New Jersey Landfall|url=http://washposngt.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-MCMWP11A1I4H01-2DUORIV7RUREVIT7O7L4UFGTVF|publisher=Washington Post|accessdate=30 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sandy Becomes Largest Atlantic Storm on Path to Northeast|url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Sandy-Becomes-Largest-Atlantic-Storm-on-Path-to-3990898.php|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=30 October 2012}}</ref> The eighteenth tropical cyclone and [[Tropical cyclone naming|named storm]] and tenth hurricane of the [[2012 Atlantic hurricane season]], Sandy developed from a [[tropical wave]] in the western [[Caribbean Sea]] on October 22. It became a tropical depression, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to a [[tropical storm]] six hours later. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the [[Greater Antilles]] and gradually intensified.

On October 24, Sandy was upgraded to a hurricane, shortly before making landfall in Jamaica. Upon moving farther north, Sandy re-entered water and made its second landfall in Cuba during the early morning of October 25 as a [[Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale#Category 2|Category 2]] hurricane. During the late evening of October 25, Sandy weakened to [[Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale#Category 1|Category 1]] strength; in the early hours of October 26, it headed north through the Bahamas.<ref>{{cite newsweb

| title = Hurricane Sandy storms through Bahamas, Central Florida on alert

| url = http://www.cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2012/10/25/hurricane_sandy_movi.html?cmpid=twitter

| publisher = [[Central Florida News 13]]

| accessdate = 26 October 2012}}</ref> Sandy began to show [[Subtropical cyclone|some characteristics of both]] tropical and extratropical cyclones on October 26.<ref>{{cite reportweb|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2012/al18/al182012.discus.019.shtml?|title=HURRICANE SANDY DISCUSSION NUMBER 19|work=Hurricane Sandy Discussion Number 19|publisher=National Hurricane Center|accessdate=1 November 2012|location=Miami, FL|language=English|date=26 October 2012|quote=(...) SANDY IS SHOWING CHARACTERISTICS OF A HYBRID CYCLONE THIS EVENING. (...)}}</ref> Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm in the early morning hours of October 27, then restrengthened to a [[Category 1 hurricane]] later that morning. Just before 8 a.m. [[Eastern Daylight Time|EDT]] on October 29, Sandy turned to the north-northwest and started to make its expected approach towards the U.S. coast. At 7 p.m. EDT that evening, Sandy was declared a [[post-tropical cyclone]], while still maintaining Category 1 strength.<ref name=ExtraTropical-PostTropical>{{cite web

| title = Post-Tropical Cyclone SANDY Update Statement

| url = http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT3+shtml/292256.shtml

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! Country !! Fatalities !! Missing !! Damage (in USD) !! Sources

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| {{flag|United States}} || style="text-align:center;"| 5572 || style="text-align:center;"| 1 || $20&nbsp;billion <small>(estimated)</small> || <ref name="WP Deaths">{{cite news|title=A look at Caribbean deaths and damage from Hurricane Sandy|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/a-look-at-caribbean-deaths-and-damage-from-hurricane-sandy/2012/10/30/4d63fa52-22f1-11e2-92f8-7f9c4daf276a_story.html|work=The Washington Post|agency=Associated Press|date=October 30, 2012|accessdate=October 31, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hurricane Sandy: The Death Toll Detailed|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/oct/31/hurricane-sandy-death-toll|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=Oct 31,2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|Sandy's death toll on the rise|url=http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/31/superstorm-sandy-death-toll-on-rise-as-recovery-begins/|publisher=Fox News|accessdate=October 31, 2012}}</ref>

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| {{flag|Haiti}} || style="text-align:center;"| 54 || style="text-align:center;"| 20 || Unknown || <ref name="Guardian Deaths">{{cite web|author=Jonathan Watts|publisher=The Guardian|date=October 30, 2012|accessdate=October 31, 2012|title=Hurricane Sandy: Haiti in emergency aid plea as disaster piles upon disaster|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/30/hurricane-sandy-haiti-emergency-aid}}</ref>

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| {{flag|Bermuda}} || style="text-align:center;"| 0 || style="text-align:center;"| 0 || Unknown || <ref name="WP Deaths"/>

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! Total !! style="text-align:center;"| 127165 !! 21 !! $20.4&nbsp;billion <small>(estimated)</small> ||

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At least 127 people have been confirmed killed across the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States, as a result of the storm.<ref name="WP Deaths"/><ref name="Guardian Deaths"/><ref name="debris"/><ref name="FOX19 deaths">{{cite web|title=Sandy leaves many digging out, others drying out|url=http://www.fox19.com/story/19949363/sandy-causes-hospital-evacuations-raging-fires-in-ny|publisher=RNN Staff|accessdate=October 30, 2012|date=October 30, 2012}}</ref>