Hurricane Chris (2018)

Hurricane Chris

Category 2 hurricane
Chris making landfall in Louisiana on August 11th, 2018
Formed	August 6, 2018
Dissipated	August 14, 2018
Accumulated Cyclone Energy	9.8
Highest winds	100 mph (1-min sustained)
Lowest pressure	970 mb
Damages	4.3 billion (2016 USD)
Direct Fatalities	50
Indirect Fatalities	0
Missing	13
Areas affected	Louisiana, Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica
Part of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season

Hurricane Chris was a tropical cyclone that Struck Louisiana as a Category-1 Hurricane in Early August 2018. It was the Fourth tropical cyclone, third named storm and the Second Hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season.

Meteorological History

Map plotting the track and intensity of the storm according to the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale

Tornadoes

Confirmed Total

Confirmed EF0

Confirmed EF1

Confirmed EF2

Confirmed EF3

Confirmed EF4

Confirmed EF5

30

11

12

6

1

0

0

Hurricane Chris dropped 30 Tornadoes, including an EF3, which caused good damage south of Louisville, KY on August 13th

• A Waterspout, later EF2 Tornado, as it came ashore near Lake Charles, LA. - (August 11th)
• Damage caused by one of the EF2s near Cincinnati, OH
• Chris caused considerable Storm Surge in addition to Tornadoes
• Some of Chris's Cells managed to Produce hail, up to 2 inches in Diameter
• In Addition to Hail and Tornadoes, Hurricane Chris caused Widespread Flooding in some Areas

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