Hurricane Felix (2007)
| Category 5 major hurricane (SSHWS/NWS) | |
Hurricane Felix shortly after peak intensity on September 3, as seen from the International Space Station
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| Formed | August 31, 2007 |
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| Dissipated | September 7, 2007 |
| (Remnant low after September 5) | |
| Highest winds |
1-minute sustained: 175 mph (280 km/h) |
| Lowest pressure | 929 mbar (hPa); 27.43 inHg |
| Fatalities | 130 direct, 3 indirect |
| Damage | $720 million (2007 USD) |
| Areas affected | Trinidad and Tobago, Windward Islands, Venezuela, Leeward Antilles, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Mexico |
| Part of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season | |
Hurricane Felix was the southernmost landfalling Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic; surpassing Hurricane Edith of 1971. It is also the most recent Atlantic hurricane to make landfall as a Category 5. It was the sixth named storm, second hurricane, and second Category 5 hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. Felix formed from a tropical wave on August 31, passing through the southern Windward Islands on September 1 before strengthening to attain hurricane status. A day later it rapidly strengthened into a major hurricane, and early on September 3 it was upgraded to Category 5 status; by 2100 UTC, the hurricane was downgraded to Category 4 status, but was upgraded to a Category 5 hurricane for the second and final time by the morning of September 4.
On September 4, Felix made landfall just south of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras, in the Mosquito Coast region, as a Category 5 hurricane with 160 mph (260 km/h) winds. Hurricane Felix struck Nicaragua on the same day as Hurricane Henriette struck the Baja California Peninsula in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which marked the second recorded occurrence that a North Atlantic hurricane and a Pacific hurricane made landfall on the same day; the previous occurrence was on August 23, 1992, when Hurricane Andrew hit the Bahamas on the same day Hurricane Lester hit Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. At least 133 deaths are attributed to Felix.
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