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Hurricane Ginger
Image of Hurricane Ginger on September 13
Meteorological history
Formed
September 10, 1971
Extratropical
October 6, 1971
Dissipated
October 7, 1971
Duration
3 weeks and 6 days
Category 2 hurricane
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/NWS)
Highest winds
110 mph (175 km/h)
Lowest pressure
959 mbar (hPa); 28.32 inHg
Overall effects
Fatalities
1 direct
Damage
$10 million (1971 USD)
Areas affected
The Bahamas, North Carolina
IBTrACS
Part of the 1971 Atlantic hurricane season
Hurricane Ginger was the second longest-lasting Atlantic hurricane on record. The eighth tropical cyclone and fifth hurricane of the 1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Ginger spent 27.25 days as a tropical cyclone, lasting from September 6 to October 3. Twenty of those days (September 11 – September 30), Ginger was classified as a hurricane. The storm formed northeast of the Bahamas, and for the first nine days of its duration tracked generally eastward or northeastward while gradually strengthening to peak winds of 110 mph (175 km/h). On September 14, Ginger slowed and turned to a general westward track, passing near Bermuda on September 23. There, the hurricane produced gusty winds and high waves, but no damage.
While over the western Atlantic Ocean, Ginger became the last target of Project Stormfury, which sought to weaken hurricanes by depositing silver iodide into tropical cyclone rainbands. Ginger ultimately struck North Carolina on September 30 as a minimal hurricane, lashing the coastline with gusty winds that caused power outages across the region. Heavy rainfall flooded towns and left severe crop damage, with 3 million bushels of corn and 1 million bushels of soybean lost. Damage in the state was estimated at $10 million (1971 US dollars$, 75.2 million 2024 USD). Further north, moderate precipitation and winds spread through the Mid-Atlantic states, although no significant damage was reported outside North Carolina.
Ginger has the highest accumulated cyclone energy for a hurricane below major hurricane strength in the Atlantic basin, at 44.2.
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