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Hurricane Kate Recap

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Track of Hurricane Kate

The path of Hurricane Kate is shown with the color of the track indicating its strength at that time. Yellow is for when it was a tropical depression, orange is for tropical storm and red is for hurricane.

Hurricane Kate became the fourth hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season on Veterans' Day while passing well north of Bermuda. 

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National Hurricane Center specialist Eric Blake said Kate was the latest-in-season tropical cyclone to become a hurricane so far northwest in the Atlantic Ocean on record.

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Kate was also the latest-forming Atlantic basin hurricane in 10 years, since Epsilon prolonged the historic 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, according to Colorado State University tropical expert, Dr. Phil Klotzbach (Wunderblog).

Timeline:

  • Before Kate was a tropical depression, the incipient tropical wave doused parts of the Lesser Antilles with excessive rainfall. Martinique picked up 192.4 millimeters (7.57 inches) of rain from November 5-7. Most of that fell on November 6, causing serious flooding on parts of the island.
  • Tropical Depression Twelve formed the night of November 8.
  • Based on observations from the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters, T.D. Twelve strengthened to Tropical Storm Kate the following morning, the eleventh named storm of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season.
  • Tropical storm warnings were hoisted in the southeast, central and northwest Bahamas. Kate's center of circulation passed within 15 miles of Cat Island on November 9.
  • Kate then tracked north away from the Bahamas and strengthened to the season's fourth hurricane on November 11, as it was being caught by the jet stream over 250 miles north of Bermuda.
  • Only some outer rainbands and rough surf impacted Bermuda.
  • Kate's final advisory as a tropical cyclone was written by the National Hurricane Center early on November 12.

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