Season Effects
This is a table of the storms in the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season. It mentions all of the season's storms and their names, landfall(s), peak intensities, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect(an example of such being a traffic accident or landslide), but are still related to that storm. The damage and death totals in this list include impacts when the storm was a precursor wave or post-tropical low, and all of the damage figures are in 1998 USD.
| TD | TS | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 |
| Storm name |
Dates active | Storm category
at peak intensity |
Max wind (mph) |
Min. press. (mbar) |
Landfall(s) | Damage (millions USD) |
Deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where | When | Wind
(mph) |
||||||||
| Alex | July 27 – August 2 | Tropical storm | 50 | 1000 | none | none | 0 | |||
| Bonnie | August 19 – August 30 | Category 3 hurricane | 115 | 954 | Wilmington, North Carolina | August 27 | 110 | 1,000 | 3 (2) | |
| Charley | August 21 – August 24 | Tropical storm | 70 | 1000 | Port Aransas, Texas | August 22 | 45 | 50 | 20 | |
| Danielle | August 24 – September 3 | Category 2 hurricane | 105 | 960 | none | none | 0 | |||
| Earl | August 31 – September 3 | Category 2 hurricane | 100 | 985 | Panama City, Florida | September 3 | 80 | 79 | 2 (1) | |
| Frances | September 8 – September 13 | Tropical storm | 65 | 990 | Corpus Christi, Texas | September 11 | 50 | 500 | 1 (1) | |
| Georges | September 15 – October 1 | Category 4 hurricane | 155 | 937 | Antigua | September 21 | 115 | 5,900 | 604 | |
| St. Kitts | September 21 | 115 | ||||||||
| St. Croix | September 21 | 110 | ||||||||
| Puerto Rico | September 21 | 115 | ||||||||
| Punta Cana, Dominican Republic | September 22 | 120 | ||||||||
| Baracoa, Cuba | September 23 | 75 | ||||||||
| Key West, Florida(Direct hit, no landfall) | September 25 | 105 | ||||||||
| Biloxi, Mississippi | September 28 | 105 | ||||||||
| Hermine | September 17 – September 20 | Tropical storm | 45 | 999 | Cocodrie, Louisiana | September 20 | 40 | 0.085 | 0 | |
| Ivan | September 19 – September 27 | Category 1 hurricane | 90 | 975 | none | none | 0 | |||
| Jeanne | September 21 – October 1 | Category 2 hurricane | 105 | 969 | none | none | 0 | |||
| Karl | September 23 – September 28 | Category 2 hurricane | 105 | 970 | none | none | 0 | |||
| Lisa | October 5 – October 9 | Category 1 hurricane | 75 | 995 | none | none | 0 | |||
| Mitch | October 22 – November 5 | Category 5 hurricane | 180 | 905 | Limón, Honduras | October 29 | 80 | 6,200 | ≥11,000 | |
| Campeche, Mexico | November 4 | 40 | ||||||||
| Naples, Florida | November 5 | 65 | ||||||||
| Nicole | November 24 – December 1 | Category 1 hurricane | 85 | 979 | none | none | 0 | |||
| Season Aggregates | ||||||||||
| 14 cyclones | July 27 – December 1 | 180 | 905 | 15 landfalls | 13,729 | ≥11,630 (4) | ||||
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