![]() ![]() In addition, Nate was the first tropical cyclone to move ashore in the state of Mississippi since Hurricane Katrina. It is also the fourth Atlantic hurricane of 2017 to have made landfall in the United States or one of its territories such a quartet of landfalls has not occurred since 2005. Moving northwestward at 29 mph (47 km/h), Nate was the fastest-moving tropical system ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico. landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi early on October 8, causing a storm surge to flood the ground floors of coastal casinos and buildings, as well as causing rip currents, hurricane-force winds, and beach erosion. ![]() After crossing the marshland of the Mississippi Delta, it made its second U.S. Early on the next day, Nate made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana. It attained hurricane strength while moving through the Yucatán Channel early on October 7, attaining peak winds of 90 mph (150 km/h) in the central Gulf of Mexico later that day. Nate began steady intensification over the warm waters of the northwestern Caribbean Sea shortly thereafter. The storm made landfall in Nicaragua that same day and continued into Honduras with little change in strength. The disturbance moved northwest, organizing into a tropical depression the next day and attaining tropical storm intensity early on October 5. The fourteenth named storm and ninth hurricane of the extremely active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Nate originated from a broad area of low pressure over the southwestern Caribbean on October 3. An unusually fast-moving tropical cyclone, it caused severe flooding in Central America, leading to widespread destruction and casualties, during early October 2017, before making landfall on the US Gulf Coast. ![]() Hurricane Nate was an Atlantic hurricane which was the costliest natural disaster in Costa Rican history. Part of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season Jamaica, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Mexico, United States, Canada and St Pierre and Miquelon Hurricane Nate at peak intensity approaching Louisiana on October 7 ![]()
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