Hurricane Michael, the storm that hit the Florida panhandle last year, was stronger than initially thought, NOAA says.
"Most of us thought we were dealing with a 5 anyway," said the mayor of hard-hit Mexico Beach, Florida.Douglas R. Clifford / Tampa Bay Times via APGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Hurricane Michael, the storm that struck the Florida panhandle last year and was estimated to be directly responsible for 16 deaths, was stronger than initially thought, a federal weather agency said Friday.
Both categories are considered catastrophic. In addition to the 16 deaths, the hurricane was associated with more than 40 indirect deaths, such as traffic accidents or falls during clean up, NOAA's National Hurricane CenterHurricane Michael is now the fourth hurricane to make landfall in the United States as a Category 5 on record, NOAA said. The last time a hurricane made landfall in the U.S. as a Category 5 was Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
The mayor of Mexico Beach, which bore the brunt of the storm and which is in Bay County, told the Associated Press that people there felt they were dealing with a catastrophic storm anyway.
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