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What is Hurricane Nate (2017)?

Hurricane Nate Category 1 hurricane (SSHWS/NWS) Hurricane Nate at peak intensity racing towards Louisiana on October 7 Formed October 4, 2017 Dissipated October 11, 2017 (Extratropical after October 9) Highest winds 1-minute sustained: 90 mph (150 km/h) Lowest pressure 981 mbar (hPa); 28.97 inHg Fatalities 45 confirmed (as of October 11) Damage > $2.69 billion (2017 USD) Areas affected Central America, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Yucatán Peninsula, Gulf Coast of the United States (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee), East Coast of the United States, Atlantic Canada Hurricane Nate was an Atlantic hurricane that caused widespread destruction and casualties in Central America. It is also fourteenth named storm and ninth hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Nate originated from a broad area of low pressure over the southwestern Caribbean on October 3. The disturbance moved northwest, organizing into a tropical depression the next day and attaining