Hurricane Mitch’s Path: Beginning just north of Colombia in dark blue, Hurricane Mitch traveled northwest, destroying everything in its path and left cutting through the Caribbean towards the Atlantic Ocean. Earlier this week, Mitch was a rare, category five hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, capable of "catastrophic" destruction. Hurricane Mitch 22 October - 05 November 1998 John L. Guiney and Miles B. Lawrence National Hurricane Center 28 January 1999 Best track revised 4 May 2000 Mitch is responsible for over nine thousand deaths predominately from rain-induced flooding in portions of Central America, mainly in Honduras and Nicaragua. The monster storm hit Florida after cutting a swath of destruction through the Caribbean. 1998 Oct 27th,hurricane Mitch hits from the north with 140mph winds while weakening moving very slowly in late october very heavy rains killing 14,600 in Honduras according to the International Disaster Database and up to 23,000 in all of central america after earlier being a cat 5 with 180mph winds while over the open waters. Central Pacific Hurricane Center 2525 Correa Rd Suite 250 Honolulu, HI 96822 W-HFO.webmaster@noaa.gov Hurricane Mitch was the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, causing over 11,000 fatalities in Central America, with over 7,000 occurring in Honduras alone due to the catastrophic flooding it wrought, due to the slow motion of the storm. The storm cut a path of destruction across … 1998 - Hurricane Mitch, update. With direct reference to Hurricane Mitch, below is both a photo and video depicting the hurricane’s path. Hurricane Mitch is the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, causing over 11,000 fatalities in Central America in 1998, including approximately 7,000 in Honduras and 3,800 in Nicaragua due to catastrophic flooding from the slow motion of the storm. Hurricane Mitch approached the coast of Honduras on 27 October as a Category V hurricane. Mitch became a tropical storm and then a hurricane on 23 October 1998. 10 November 1998 Disease Outbreak Reported. It hit Cuba overnight Friday as a Category 5 hurricane.

The hurricane moved westwards and hit Honduras on 29 October 1998 causing vast destruction. At that point, and subsequently for a number of days, it stalled off the coast, producing very heavy rainfall. Hurricane Mitch's week-long path of destruction through Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala has left thousands dead and disappeared, hundreds … Hurricane Andrew, the first named storm of the 1992 season, made landfall on Elliott Key as a Category 5 hurricane. It was the deadliest hurricane in Central America, surpassing Hurricane Fifi–Orlene, which killed slightly fewer people there in 1974.