deadliest on record. Of 14 named storms, nine became hurricanes.

Tropical Storm Alex (July 27-Aug. 2): Never threatened land.

Hurricane Bonnie (Aug. 19-30): Danced around the US coastline before hitting North Carolina with wind gusts up to 100 mph, caused $1 billion damage.

Tropical Storm Charley (Aug. 21-Aug. 22): Made landfall in Texas, causing flooding inland and killing at least 19 people. Eighteen inches of rain fell in some areas.

Hurricane Daniel (Aug. 24-Sept. 3.): With 100 mph winds, it came within 455 miles west of Bermuda.

Hurricane Earl (Aug. 31-Sept. 3): Dumped nearly 2 feet of rain on the Florida Panhandle with 80 mph winds. About $25 million in insured losses and three reported deaths.

Tropical Storm Frances (Sept. 8-11): Flooded more than 300 miles of Gulf Coast from Texas to Louisiana.

Hurricane Georges (Sept. 15-29): A Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds near 150 mph. Killed more than 500 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, destroying $2 billion in insured property in four Gulf Coast states and the Caribbean. There was $250 million in damage to the Florida Keys.

Tropical Storm Hermine (Sept. 17-20): Never threatened land.

Hurricane Ivan (Sept. 20-26): Posed threat to the Azores.

Hurricane Jeanne (Sept. 21-30): Never moved out of the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

Hurricane Karl (Sept. 25-27): Never threatened land but was historic because it marked the first time since 1893 that the Atlantic-Gulf regions played host to four hurricanes at once. Georges, Ivan and Jeanne were the other three.

Hurricane Lisa (Oct. 5-9): Never threatened land.

Hurricane Mitch (Oct. 22-Nov. 6): The third deadliest hurricane on record. A Category 5 storm with sustained winds over 155 mph. It stalled over Honduras, causing at least 10,000 deaths in Central America. It reformed in the Gulf as a tropical storm and tracked a path through the Florida Keys.

Tropical Storm Nicole (Nov. 24): Never threatened land.

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