Hurricane Whitney (2060) (Misteeer)

Hurricane Whitney was the costliest, deadliest, strongest, and most intense Atlantic hurricane in recorded history. It was also the furthest-north landfalling Category 5 hurricane on record worldwide, and only the third Category 6 hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin. The storm killed over 2,000 people, caused over $500 billion in damage, and reached a barometric pressure of 859 millibars.

Whitney formed from a tropical wave over the Cabo Verde Islands on September 4, and strengthened as it moved west. East of the Bahamas, it rapidly intensified, becoming a Category 6 hurricane before making landfall near West Palm Beach, Florida. A ridge then steered it to the northeast, and it made three separate landfalls in the Carolinas as a Category 5 storm. On September 14, it made landfall near Ocean City, Maryland as a strong Category 5 hurricane, and then three separate landfalls in the northeastern United States as a low-end Category 5 storm. After making two other landfalls in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland as a low-end Category 3 hurricane, Whitney became subtropical, then extratropical, and dissipated the Netherlands on September 22.

In Cabo Verde, Whitney caused localized flooding, drowning three people and flooding hundreds of houses. Its outer bands caused catastrophic flooding in the northern Greater Antilles, killing hundreds of people and damaging or destroying thousands of homes and businesses. Florida and the Bahamas were devastated, with over 24 hours of sustained winds exceeding 200 mph (322 km/h), feet of rain falling, and a storm surge as high as 45 feet (14 m) in many locations, killing thousands of people and destroying hundreds of thousands of structures.