Season Effects
This is a table of all of the storms that formed in the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s) – denoted by bold location names – damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all of the damage figures are in 2008 USD.
| TD | TS | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 |
| Storm name |
Dates active | Storm category
at peak intensity |
Max 1-min wind mph (km/h) |
Min. press. (mbar) |
Areas affected | Damage (millions USD) |
Deaths
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur | May 31 – June 2 | Tropical storm | 45 (75) | 1004 | Belize, Yucatan Peninsula, Southwestern Mexico | 78 | 5 (4) | |||
| Bertha | July 3 – July 20 | Category 3 hurricane | 125 (205) | 952 | Cape Verde, Bermuda, United States East Coast | Minimal | 3 | |||
| Cristobal | July 19 – July 23 | Tropical storm | 65 (100) | 998 | Florida, The Carolinas, Atlantic Canada | 0.01 | 0 | |||
| Dolly | July 20 – July 25 | Category 2 hurricane | 100 (160) | 963 | Guatemala, Yucatan Peninsula (Quintana Roo), Northeastern Mexico, South Texas, New Mexico | 1,350 | 1 (21) | |||
| Edouard | August 3 – August 6 | Tropical storm | 65 (100) | 996 | United States Gulf Coast (Southeast Texas) | 0.25 | 6 | |||
| Fay | August 15 – August 27 | Tropical storm | 70 (110) | 986 | Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Southeastern United States (Florida) | 560 | 13 (23) | |||
| Gustav | August 25 – September 4 | Category 4 hurricane | 155 (250) | 941 | Lesser Antilles, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Western Cuba, United States Gulf Coast (Louisiana), Midwestern United States | 6,610 | 112 (41) | |||
| Hanna | August 28 – September 7 | Category 1 hurricane | 85 (140) | 977 | Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas, Haiti, Dominican Republic, United States East Coast (South Carolina), Atlantic Canada | 160 | ≥532 (5) | |||
| Ike | September 1 – September 14 | Category 4 hurricane | 145 (230) | 935 | Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos Islands, Haiti, Bahamas, Cuba, United States Gulf Coast (Southeast Texas), Midwestern United States, Eastern Canada, Iceland | ≥37,500 | 103 (92) | |||
| Josephine | September 2 – September 6 | Tropical storm | 65 (100) | 994 | Cape Verde, Leeward Islands | Minimal | 0 | |||
| Kyle | September 25 – September 29 | Category 1 hurricane | 85 (140) | 984 | Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bermuda, New England, Canadian Maritimes (Nova Scotia) | 57.1 | 8 | |||
| Laura | September 29 – October 1 | Tropical storm | 60 (95) | 994 | British Isles, Netherlands, Norway | Minimal | 0 | |||
| Marco | October 6 – October 7 | Tropical storm | 65 (100) | 998 | Eastern Mexico (Veracruz) | Minimal | 0 | |||
| Nana | October 12 – October 14 | Tropical storm | 40 (65) | 1004 | None | 0 | 0 | |||
| Omar | October 13 – October 18 | Category 4 hurricane | 130 (215) | 958 | Leeward Antilles, Venezuela, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico | 79 | 0 (1) | |||
| Sixteen | October 14 – October 15 | Tropical depression | 30 (45) | 1004 | Honduras, Belize | ≥150 | ≥75 | |||
| Paloma | November 5 – November 10 | Category 4 hurricane | 145 (230) | 944 | Nicaragua, Honduras, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Cuba, Bahamas, Florida | 454.5 | 0 (1) | |||
| Season Aggregates | ||||||||||
| 17 cyclones | May 30 – November 9 | 155 (250) | 935 | ≥47,099 | ≥858 (188) | |||||
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