Not to be confused with Cyclone Ivan or Typhoon Ivan.
This article is about the 2004 Atlantic hurricane. For other storms of the same name, see List of storms named Ivan.
Hurricane Ivan
Ivan at peak intensity in the Yucatán Channel on September 13
Meteorological history
Formed
September 2, 2004
Remnant low
September 24, 2004
Dissipated
September 25, 2004
Category 5 major hurricane
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/NWS)
Highest winds
165 mph (270 km/h)
Lowest pressure
910 mbar (hPa); 26.87 inHg
Overall effects
Fatalities
124
Damage
$26.1 billion (2004 USD) (Costliest in Grenada and Cayman Islands history)
Areas affected
Windward Islands (especially Grenada), Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Barbados, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Grand Cayman, Cuba, Yucatan Peninsula, Eastern United States, Florida, Alabama, most of the United States Gulf Coast, and Canada
IBTrACS
Part of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season
History
Meteorological history
Effects
Lesser Antilles and South America
Greater Antilles
Florida
Tornado outbreak
Other wikis
Commons: Ivan images
Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, Cape Verde hurricane that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The cyclone was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.
Ivan formed in early September, and reached Category 5 strength on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale (SSHS). Ivan caused catastrophic damage in Grenada as a strong Category 3 storm, heavy damage in Jamaica as a strong Category 4 storm, and then severe damage in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, and the western tip of Cuba as a Category 5 hurricane. After peaking in strength, the hurricane moved north-northwest across the Gulf of Mexico to strike Pensacola/Milton, Florida and Alabama as a strong Category 3 storm, causing significant damage. Ivan dropped heavy rain on the Southeastern United States as it progressed northeastward and eastward through the Eastern United States, becoming an extratropical cyclone on September 18. The remnant low of the storm moved into the western subtropical Atlantic and regenerated into a tropical cyclone on September 22, which then moved across Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, and then into Louisiana and Texas, causing minimal damage. Ivan degenerated into a remnant low on September 24, before dissipating on the next day.
Ivan caused an estimated US$26.1 billion (equivalent to $42 billion in 2023) in damage along its path, of which $20.5 billion occurred in the United States.
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