Hurricane Alberto
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- This article is about the tropical storm of 1994. For other storms of the same name, see Hurricane Alberto (disambiguation).
Hurricane Alberto of 2000 was the seventh longest-lived tropical cyclone ever in the Atlantic, and the second longest ever in August. Alberto holds the second-place spot for distance traveled by an Atlantic hurricane, 6500 miles (10500 km). During its three-week meander around the ocean, Alberto was upgraded to a hurricane three separate times, making it as high as category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, with peak winds near 125 mph or 200 km/h. The Cape Verde-season storm formed off the coast of Africa, but never made landfall.
This Alberto is not related to Tropical Storm Alberto of 1994, which never became a hurricane, but caused a major flooding disaster in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. The name Alberto will be next used in 2006.
External links
- National Hurricane Center report on Alberto (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/2000alberto.html). Includes extensive meteorological statistics.