NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT
HURRICANE MARIA (AL152017) 16–30 September 2017 Richard J. Pasch, Andrew B. Penny, and Robbie Berg National Hurricane Center 4 January 20231
VIIRS SATELLITE IMAGE OF HURRICANE MARIA NEARING PEAK INTENSITY AT 1942 UTC 19 SEPTEMBER 2017. IMAGE COURTESY OF UW-CIMSS.
Maria was a very severe Cape Verde Hurricane that ravaged the island of Dominica at category 5 (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) intensity, and later devastated Puerto Rico as a high-end category 4 hurricane. It also inflicted serious damage on some of the other islands of the northeastern Caribbean Sea. Maria is the third costliest hurricane in United States history.
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Original report date 5 April 2018. Second version on 10 April 2018 corrected damage photo of Dominica in Fig. 9. Third version on 14 February 2019 corrected best track latitude and longitude values in Table 1 at 0000 UTC 21 September 2017, 0600 UTC 29 September 2017, and 1200 UTC 29 September 2017. This version (4 January 2023) includes a revised death toll for Puerto Rico.