Nov 5, 2001
Hurricane Michelle after forming into a depression in the southwest Caribbean Sea on October 29 drifted north and became a tropical storm on October 31 and a hurricane on November 2. It turned northeast and made landfall along the south shore of Cuba as a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Michelle weakened as it moved across Cuba and into the central Bahamas. The center reached its closest approach to southeast Florida, about 170 miles southeast of Miami, around 4
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5272141). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
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