Re: Has a named storm (since records have been kept) ever ....
Posted by CypressTX on 8/23/2009, 5:26 pm
from: http://students.salisbury.edu/~ac05930/hurricane1996Callegary.html

"Lili (Figure Lili) forms as a tropical system on the 14th of October near Nicaragua.

She makes landfall in Cuba on October 18th. The storm reaches max strength as a Cat 3 hurricane on October 19th. Lili makes a second landfall (Figure second landfall) in the UK around the 28th of October. the storm caused 8 deaths in central America and 2 deaths in the UK."

more: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1996lili.html

and more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Lili_(1996)

"United Kingdom
On the October 28 and October 29, 1996, the United Kingdom was hammered by what The Times called "arrival from America of Hurricane Lili." Lili produced a 92 mph (148 km/h) gust at Swansea, South Wales, while bringing a four foot (1.20 m) storm surge that inundated the River Thames. In Somerset, 500 holiday cottages were severely damaged. A United States oil drilling platform, under tow in the North Sea, broke loose during the storm and nearly ran aground at Peterhead. On the Isle of Wight, a sailing boat was beached at Chale Bay; luckily all five occupants were rescued. The most damaging storm to have struck the United Kingdom, since the Great Storm of 1987, Lili killed two people and left 150 million (1996 pounds) ($300 million in 1996 US dollars) in damage. The storm also broke a four-month drought over southwest England."
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