Category 3 major hurricane (SSHWS/NWS) | |
![]() Hurricane Marilyn on September 16, 1995 | |
Formed | September 12, 1995[1] |
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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.
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