Hurricane Rodrigo

HURRICANE RODRIGO

Tropical Depression 17L formed on October 20, It only slowly intensified at first, becoming Tropical Storm Rodrigo later that day. It organized rapidly, beginning early on October 21, and became a hurricane late that day, in an atmosphere highly conducive to rapid deepening. On October 22, explosive intensification occurred, and in only 24 hours, Patricia became a Category 4 hurricane with (230 km/h) winds.The intensification was disturbed because interaction with Yucatan peninsula ,Rodrigo suparssing Hurricane Wilma in 2005.Rodrigo subsequently attained winds of 225 mph (365 km/h) and a central pressure of 867 mbar (hPa; 25.75 inHg), becoming the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the world, surpassing both the previous central pressure record set by Hurricane Wilma and the previous 1-minute sustained wind record set by Hurricane Allen. Rodrigo the storm make landfall in Corpus Christi ,30 hours after peaking in intensity, it was downgraded to depression at 16:00 CDT on October 29.[148] However, Patricia's landfall in Texas as a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 165 mph (270 km/h), was still sufficient to qualify as the strongest landfall by any hurricane

Rodrigo caused at least 793 confirmed deaths: Economic losses are preliminarily estimated at between $170[5] to $400 billion,[6] with a large portion of the losses sustained by uninsured homeowners.