The hurricane hit in late August, and the effects were felt for about a week.
That depends on what you mean by rank. In terms of rating, it was a category 5. It was the second deadliest, eighth most intense, and seventeenth costliest Atlantic hurricane on record.
It dissipated over Florida on November 5, 1998.
Mitch was a hurricane that struck Central America in the autumn of 1998, killing thousands of people in Nicaragua and Honduras.
Hurricane Mitch reached wind speeds of up to 180 mph (290 km/h) at its peak intensity in late October 1998. It was one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.
The total cost to repair the damages caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 was estimated to be around $6 billion. The hurricane affected several Central American countries, resulting in widespread destruction and loss of life.
Hurricane Mitch of 1998 was a category 5.
Honduras was the Latin American country affected the most by Hurricane Mitch in late October 1998. Hurricane Mitch was a category 5 hurricane.
No. While Mitch was one of the deadliest hurricanes other hurricanes have been much bigger.
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Not in hurricane form. However - we DID experience gale-force winds, as the remnants of Mitch crossed the Atlantic.
Hurricane Mitch in 1998
No. For one thing, a storm that strikes Japan will be called a typhoon, not a hurricane. Hurricane Mitch was in the Atlantic hurricane basin, and had its worst impacts in the Central American countries of Honduras and Nicaragua.
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1998
categrory 5
Hurricanes are not anticyclones, they are cyclones.
November 5, 1998.