Hurricane Allen

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Hurricane Allen was the most powerful Atlantic hurricane by wind speed on record, tied with Hurricane Melissa of 2025. The second tropical depression and first named storm of the 1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Allen was also the seventh most intense Atlantic hurricane on record in terms of barometric pressure. It was one of the few hurricanes to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir–Simpson scale on three occasions, and spent more time at Category 5 status than all but two other Atlantic hurricanes. Until Hurricane Melissa in 2025, Allen was the only hurricane in the recorded history of the Atlantic basin to achieve sustained winds of 190 mph (305 km/h), and until Hurricane Patricia in 2015, these were also the highest sustained winds in the Western Hemisphere. Hurricane Allen was also the third-most intense tropical cyclone to exist in the Gulf of Mexico in terms of minimum central pressure, behind hurricanes Milton in 2024 and Rita in 2005. Throughout its track, Allen moved through the...

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