Hurricane Alberto
Hurricane Alberto of
2000 was the third longest-lived
tropical cyclone ever in the
Atlantic, and the longest ever in
August. 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.
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