Hurricane Marilyn

Hurricane Marilyn

Category 3 major hurricane (SSHWS/NWS)
Hurricane Marilyn on September 16, 1995
Formed	September 12, 1995[1]
Dissipated	October 1, 1995[1]
Highest winds	1-minute sustained: 115 mph (185 km/h)
Lowest pressure	949 mbar (hPa); 28.02 inHg
Fatalities	13[2]
Damage	$2 billion (1995 USD)
Areas affected	Leeward Islands, Barbados, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Bermuda.
Part of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season

Hurricane Marilyn was the fifteenth tropical depression and thirteenth named storm of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Marilyn was the strongest storm to hit the Virgin Islands since Hurricane Hugo of 1989, and caused thirteen deaths and more than $2 billion in damage.^[2]

Marilyn formed on September 13, and grew to hurricane strength soon after. Marilyn made landfall on the Lesser Antilles on September 14, 1995 at Category 1 strength. By the time it reached the U.S. Virgin Islands, Marilyn was a Category 3 strength hurricane. After heading north past Bermuda, Marilyn weakened and became an extratropical cyclone before dying out just south of Nova Scotia on October 1, 1995.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Weather Underground (2010). "Hurricane Marilyn at Weather Underground". Weather Underground. Retrieved 2010-08-18.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} NOAA (2007). "Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters" (PDF). NOAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-11-22. Retrieved 2007-02-18.