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Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.

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Hurricane Ivan

Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2004

Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, and devastating tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane, and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, Ivan formed in…
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Saffir–Simpson scale

Hurricane intensity scale

The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) is a tropical cyclone intensity scale that classifies hurricanes—which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms—into five categories distinguished by…
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