Hurricane Collin (2022)

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Hurricane Collin was the most intense storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season and left extremely devastating effects in the Bahamas, Florida, and the Gulf Coast. Initially developing from a weak tropical wave near the Bahamas, Collin gradually strengthened to 155 MPH, 927 mbar, becoming the strongest and most destructive storm of the 2022 season, having caused $96.5 billion in damages, becoming the 2nd most destructive storm in Atlantic history (only behind Katrina of 2005).

Meteorological History
Hurricane Collin began from a Cape Verde tropical wave associated with strong showers and thunderstorms that developed on July 21. Moving steadily northwest across the North Atlantic, the wave barely intensified, if at all. By July 23, the wave had neared the British Virgin Islands, becoming more disorganized. However, the NHC kept watch on it, and, overnight into the next day, July 24, the wave reached a favorable environment east of the Bahamas, steadily began to increase in intensity as an area of low-pressure began to develop within a warming core.

Tropical Depression Three then underwent convections bursts within its core as the outer circulation bands began to appear, along with a substantially improving cloud pattern, along with a fast increase in wind speed from 30 MPH to 45 MPH as the storm began to shift west, towards the Bahamas. The NHC forecasted relatively minor impacts in the Bahamas and Florida, with explosive strengthening over the Gulf of Mexico, which, prior to Collin's development, underwent a rapid decrease in shear to near record low levels. Within hours, convection levels in Collin's core soared, resulting in explosive intensification as more thunderstorm cells within the system converged, resulting in a rapid increase in wind speed to 65 MPH, along with a drop in pressure to 995 mbar. On July 25, Tropical Storm Collin took on annular characteristics as the core became stable, resulting in little change in intensity as the system made landfall on Nassau, Bahamas later that day. However, convection began to increase once again as wind shear continued to drop off the coast of Florida, while air in the core continued to sink, resulting in a further pressure drop as a ragged eye began to become visible.