1925 Florida tropical storm
The 1925 Florida tropical storm was the deadliest tropical cyclone to impact the United States that did not become a hurricane. The fourth and final storm of the season, it formed as a tropical depression on November 27 near the Yucatán Peninsula, the system initially tracked southeastward before turning north as it gradually intensified. After skirting western Cuba on November 30, the storm reached peak winds of 65 mph (105 km/h) before striking central Florida on December 1. Within hours, the system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone and emerged into the Atlantic Ocean. The system moved onshore once more on December 2 in North Carolina before turning east, away from the United States. On December 5, the system is presumed to have dissipated offshore.
Weather map of the storm after becoming an extratropical cyclone off the coast of the Eastern United States | |
| Meteorological history | |
|---|---|
| Formed | November 27, 1925 |
| Dissipated | December 1, 1925 |
| Tropical storm | |
| 1-minute sustained (SSHWS/NWS) | |
| Highest winds | 65 mph (100 km/h) |
| Lowest pressure | 995 mbar (hPa); 29.38 inHg |
| Overall effects | |
| Fatalities | 73 direct |
| Damage | $3 million (1925 USD) |
| Areas affected | Eastern United States, Cuba and Honduras |
| IBTrACS | |
Part of the 1925 Atlantic hurricane season | |
Throughout the system's existence, it was responsible for 73 fatalities, most of which resulted from offshore incidents. The worst loss of life took place off East Coast, where the 30 crewmen of the American SS Cotopaxi drowned. Property damage amounted to $3 million, $1 million of which was in Jacksonville.