Hurricane Faith
| Category 3 hurricane ( SSHWS ) | ||
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| Emergence | August 21, 1966 | |
| resolution | September 6, 1966 | |
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| Lowest air pressure | 950 mbar ( hPa ; 28.1 inHg ) | |
| dead | 4 direct | |
| Property damage | Unknown | |
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Affected areas |
Newfoundland , Faroe Islands , Norway | |
| Season overview: 1966 Atlantic hurricane season |
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Hurricane Faith was a long-lived Cape Verdean hurricane during the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season . The August storm formed near Cape Verde and crossed the Atlantic Ocean .
Faith grazed the Leeward Islands as a Category 1 hurricane and became a strong Category 2 hurricane as he migrated along the northern Caribbean islands . He eventually reached Category 3 when he passed this one and the Bahamas . Faith later hit the Faroe Islands and Norway as a powerful extra-tropical cyclone . Faith caused four deaths and minimal damage due to the sparse population on its train track.
Faith existed as a tropical cyclone for 18 days and held the intensity of a hurricane for fifteen consecutive days. Faith was the sixth named storm and fifth hurricane of the 1966 season in the Atlantic Basin.
Storm course
After Faith formed as a Cape Verdean hurricane on August 21, the storm always moved westwards and intensified in the process. The storm turned slightly north as it approached the Leeward Islands and peaked as a Category 3 hurricane east of the Bahamas when the system was already moving north-northeast. The intensity of the hurricane then fell back to Category 2 as it moved relentlessly towards the northeast.
When the storm passed Newfoundland , not only was it still a tropical system, but Faith was still a Category 2 hurricane. When Faith hit the Faroe Islands on September 5th , with sustained winds still at speeds of 160 km / h, Faith just ceased to be a tropical cyclone. The now extra-tropical cyclone reached Norway with wind speeds of 95 km / h. Faith weakened over Scandinavia to an extra-tropical low pressure area that moved over Russia . The flagging low, however, only dissolved near the Franz Josef Land , just 480 km from the North Pole .
Faith's track is longer and farther north than any other known tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin. Faith was also one of the longest-lasting tropical cyclones observed in the Atlantic Ocean, lasting 16 days. Faith was classified as a hurricane for a total of 15 days.
Effects
In the Caribbean the approach caused by Faith closing a control station on Antigua , by an unmanned rocket of NASA was followed, 45 minutes after the rocket had lifted off. Faith also produced hurricane gusts in the northern Antilles and Puerto Rico . The storm winds did little damage. Rough seas with wave heights of 3 to 4.5 m brought Faith to the coast of Trinidad and Tobago . The waves caused less damage to smaller boats and jetties. In Bermuda , the outer band structure of Hurricane Faith caused heavy rainfall and gusts of wind of up to 100 km / h. A total of four people died as a result of the effects, none of them on land. One man was thrown overboard when his boat was beaten by the heavy seas, and two others drowned trying to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . The fourth went missing and is believed to be dead after he and his boatmates were forced to abandon their boat north of Denmark due to heavy seas . The damage caused by Hurricane Faith was minimal because the affected areas were very sparsely populated.
Because the storm did not cause any major damage, the name Faith was not deleted. Changes in the system of allocation and in the compilation of the lists in 1970 and 1979 prevented further use of the name. In 1998 the name Faith was used for a Pacific typhoon . The name is currently not on the list of tropical cyclone names .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hurricane Faith (8/21 - 9/7) , accessed on September 16, 2007
- ↑ a b Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory : 1966 Monthly Weather Review (PDF; 26.3 MB)
- ↑ NASA : More Launches of the Saturn IB , accessed September 16, 2007
- ↑ National Hurricane Center : Hurricane FAITH, August 18 - September 12, 1966 , page 2 (GIF image)
- ↑ Bermuda Online: Bermuda Climate and Weather , accessed September 16, 2007
- ↑ Canadian Hurricane Center Report ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
