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Hurricane Lenny, the Glossary

Hurricane Lenny was the strongest November Atlantic hurricane since the 1932 Cuba hurricane.^[1]

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1999 Atlantic hurricane season
1999 in Colombia
1999 in Puerto Rico
1999 in the United States Virgin Islands
Hurricanes in Antigua and Barbuda
Hurricanes in Jamaica
Hurricanes in Saint Barthélemy
Hurricanes in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Hurricanes in Saint Martin (island)
Hurricanes in the British Virgin Islands
Hurricanes in the United States Virgin Islands

ABC islands (Leeward Antilles)

The ABC islands is the physical group of '''A'''ruba, '''B'''onaire, and '''C'''uraçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.

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Anguilla

Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.

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An anticyclone is a weather phenomenon defined as a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to a cyclone).

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Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda is a sovereign island country in the Caribbean.

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Atlantic hurricane

An Atlantic hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone that forms in the Atlantic Ocean primarily between June and November.

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Atlantic hurricane season

The Atlantic hurricane season is the period in a year, from June 1 through November 30, when tropical or subtropical cyclones are most likely to form in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Atmospheric convection

Atmospheric convection is the result of a parcel-environment instability (temperature difference layer) in the atmosphere.

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Atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.

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Bar (unit)

The bar is a metric unit of pressure defined as 100,000 Pa (100 kPa), though not part of the International System of Units (SI).

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla.

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Caribbean Development Bank

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is a development bank that helps Caribbean countries finance social and economic programs in its member countries.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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Carriacou

Carriacou is an island of the Grenadine Islands.

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Cavaillon (Haiti)

Cavaillon (Kavayon) or Cavaellon is a commune and a rural town located in the Aquin Arrondissement of the Sud department of Haiti.

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Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population.

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Ceiba, Puerto Rico

Ceiba is both a small town and a municipality in northeast Puerto Rico.

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Charles Wesley Turnbull

Charles Wesley Turnbull (February 5, 1935 – July 3, 2022) was a Virgin Islander politician, educator and historian who served as the sixth elected Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1999 to 2007.

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Coastal erosion

Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Curaçao

Curaçao (or, or, Papiamentu), officially the Country of Curaçao (Land Curaçao; Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of Venezuela.

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Cyril E. King Airport

Cyril E. King Airport is a public airport located two miles (3 km) west of the central business district of Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.

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Department for International Development

The Department for International Development (DFID) was a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom, from 1997 to 2020.

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Dominica

Dominica (or; Dominican Creole French: Dominik; Kalinago: Waitukubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean.

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Dropsonde

A dropsonde is an expendable weather reconnaissance device created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), designed to be dropped from an aircraft at altitude over water to measure (and therefore track) storm conditions as the device falls to the surface.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Eye (cyclone)

The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of a tropical cyclone.

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Federal Emergency Management Agency

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No.

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Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands

Frederiksted is both a town and one of the two administrative districts of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Gendarmerie

A gendarmerie is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population.

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Ghat

Ghat, a term used in the Indian subcontinent, refer to the series of steps leading down to a body of water or wharf, such as a bathing or cremation place along the banks of a river or pond, the Ghats in Varanasi, Dhobi Ghat or the Aapravasi Ghat.

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Grande-Terre

Grande-Terre Island (île de Grande-Terre / île de la Grande-Terre; Gwanntè or Granntè) is the name of the eastern-half of Guadeloupe proper, in the Lesser Antilles.

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Grenada

Grenada (Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Gwadloup) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean.

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Guajira Peninsula

The Guajira Peninsula (Península de La Guajira, also spelled Goajira, mainly in colonial period texts, Woumainpa’a) is a peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela in the Caribbean.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.

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Hurricane Georges

Hurricane Georges was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde Category 4 hurricane which caused severe destruction as it traversed the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in September 1998, making seven landfalls along its path. Hurricane Lenny and hurricane Georges are category 4 Atlantic hurricanes, hurricanes in Antigua and Barbuda, hurricanes in Puerto Rico, hurricanes in Saint Kitts and Nevis, hurricanes in Saint Martin (island), hurricanes in the British Virgin Islands, hurricanes in the Leeward Islands, hurricanes in the United States Virgin Islands and retired Atlantic hurricanes.

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Hurricane hunters

Hurricane hunters, typhoon hunters, or cyclone hunters are aircrews that fly into tropical cyclones to gather weather data.

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Hurricane Klaus (1984)

Hurricane Klaus was a North Atlantic hurricane that hit the Leeward Islands from the west in November of the 1984 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Lenny and hurricane Klaus (1984) are hurricanes in Puerto Rico and hurricanes in the United States Virgin Islands.

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Hurricane Luis

Hurricane Luis was a long lived and powerful Category 4 hurricane. Hurricane Lenny and hurricane Luis are category 4 Atlantic hurricanes, hurricanes in Antigua and Barbuda, hurricanes in Puerto Rico, hurricanes in Saint Barthélemy, hurricanes in Saint Kitts and Nevis, hurricanes in Saint Martin (island), hurricanes in the British Virgin Islands, hurricanes in the Leeward Islands, hurricanes in the United States Virgin Islands and retired Atlantic hurricanes.

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Hurricane Marilyn

Hurricane Marilyn was the most powerful hurricane to strike the Virgin Islands since Hurricane Hugo of 1989, and the third such tropical cyclone in roughly a two-week time span to strike or impact the Leeward Islands, the others being Hurricane Iris and the much more powerful and destructive Hurricane Luis. Hurricane Lenny and hurricane Marilyn are hurricanes in Puerto Rico, hurricanes in Saint Barthélemy, hurricanes in Saint Kitts and Nevis, hurricanes in Saint Martin (island), hurricanes in the British Virgin Islands, hurricanes in the Leeward Islands, hurricanes in the United States Virgin Islands and retired Atlantic hurricanes.

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Hurricane Omar

Hurricane Omar was a powerful tropical cyclone that took an unusual southwest to northeast track through the eastern Caribbean Sea during mid-October 2008. Hurricane Lenny and Hurricane Omar are category 4 Atlantic hurricanes, hurricanes in Antigua and Barbuda, hurricanes in Saint Martin (island), hurricanes in the British Virgin Islands, hurricanes in the Leeward Islands and hurricanes in the United States Virgin Islands.

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Hurricane Paloma

Hurricane Paloma was a strong late-season Atlantic hurricane that set several records for its intensity and formation. Hurricane Lenny and hurricane Paloma are category 4 Atlantic hurricanes and retired Atlantic hurricanes.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Jayuya, Puerto Rico

Jayuya is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the mountainous center region of the island, north of Ponce; east of Utuado; and west of Ciales.

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Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

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Leeward Islands

The Leeward Islands are a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean.

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Les Cayes

Les Cayes, often referred to as Aux Cayes (Okay), is a commune and seaport in the Les Cayes Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti, with a population of 71,236.

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Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.

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List of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes

Category 4 hurricanes are tropical cyclones that reach Category 4 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson scale. Hurricane Lenny and List of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes are category 4 Atlantic hurricanes.

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List of highways in Puerto Rico

The highway system in Puerto Rico is composed of approximately of roads in Puerto Rico, maintained by the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works (Spanish: Departmento de Transportación y Obras Públicas) or DTOP.

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List of retired Atlantic hurricane names

This is a cumulative list of previously used tropical cyclone (tropical storm and hurricane) names which have been permanently removed from reuse in the North Atlantic basin. Hurricane Lenny and list of retired Atlantic hurricane names are retired Atlantic hurricanes.

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List of South America hurricanes

A South American hurricane is a tropical cyclone that affects the continent of South America or its countries.

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Low-pressure area

In meteorology, a low-pressure area, low area or low is a region where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations.

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Martinique

Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

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Maunabo, Puerto Rico

Maunabo is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Maunabo Valley on the southeastern coast, northeast of Patillas and south of Yabucoa.

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Maurice Bishop International Airport

Maurice Bishop International Airport, formerly known as Point Salines Airport, is an international airport located in the parish of St. George's.

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Maximum sustained wind

The maximum sustained wind associated with a tropical cyclone is a common indicator of the intensity of the storm.

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Mona Passage

The Mona Passage (Canal de la Mona) is a strait that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.

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Montserrat

Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.

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National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is the division of the United States' NOAA/National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting tropical weather systems between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th parallel north in the northeast Pacific Ocean and the 31st parallel north in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

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National Weather Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.

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Netherlands Antilles

The Netherlands Antilles (Nederlandse Antillen,; Antia Hulandes) was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance

The Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) was an organizational unit within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) charged by the President of the United States with directing and coordinating international United States government disaster assistance.

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Old Road Town

Old Road Town is a town located on the west coast of Saint Kitts island in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

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Outflow (meteorology)

Outflow, in meteorology, is air that flows outwards from a storm system.

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Philipsburg, Sint Maarten

Philipsburg is the main town and capital of Sint Maarten, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico.

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Princess Juliana International Airport

Princess Juliana International Airport is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.

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Puerto Rico

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Rainband

A rainband is a cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall which is significantly elongated.

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Rapid intensification

Rapid intensification (RI) is any process wherein a tropical cyclone strengthens dramatically in a short period of time.

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Reef Ball Foundation

Reef Ball Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that functions as an international environmental non-governmental organization.

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Ridge (meteorology)

In meteorology a ridge or barometric ridge is an elongated area of relatively high atmospheric pressure compared to the surrounding environment, without being a closed circulation.

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Saba (island)

Saba is a Caribbean island and the smallest special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands.

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Saffir–Simpson scale

The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) classifies hurricanes—which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms—into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.

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Saint Barthélemy

Saint Barthélemy (Saint-Barthélemy), officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, also known as St.

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Saint Croix

Saint Croix (Santa Cruz; Sint-Kruis; Sainte-Croix; Danish and Sankt Croix; Ay Ay) is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Saint George Parish, Grenada

Saint George is one of the parishes of Grenada, located on the south-western end of the island.

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Saint John Parish, Grenada

Saint John is one of the parishes of Grenada.

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Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint John (Sankt Jan; San Juan) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis, officially the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, is an island country consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean.

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Saint Martin (island)

Saint Martin (Saint-Martin; Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately east of Puerto Rico.

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Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas (Sankt Thomas, Santo Tomás, Saint-Thomas) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the eastern Caribbean.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Significant wave height

In physical oceanography, the significant wave height (SWH, HTSGW or Hs) is defined traditionally as the mean wave height (trough to crest) of the highest third of the waves (H1/3).

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Sint Eustatius

Sint Eustatius, known locally as Statia, is an island in the Caribbean.

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Sint Maarten

Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean region of North America.

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SSS islands

The SSS islands, locally also known as the Windward Islands, is a collective term for the three territories of the Dutch Caribbean (formerly the Netherlands Antilles) that are located within the Leeward Islands group of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.

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St. George's, Grenada

St.

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Storm surge

A storm surge, storm flood, tidal surge, or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami-like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low-pressure weather systems, such as cyclones.

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The Valley, Anguilla

The Valley is the capital of Anguilla, one of its fourteen districts, and the main town on the island.

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Timeline of the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1999 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual tropical cyclone season in the north Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Lenny and Timeline of the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season are 1999 Atlantic hurricane season.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Tropical cyclogenesis

Tropical cyclogenesis is the development and strengthening of a tropical cyclone in the atmosphere.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Tropical cyclone warnings and watches

Tropical cyclone warnings and watches are alerts issued by national weather forecasting bodies to coastal areas threatened by the imminent approach of a tropical cyclone of tropical storm or hurricane intensity.

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Trough (meteorology)

A trough is an elongated region of relatively low atmospheric pressure without a closed isobaric contour that would define it as a low pressure area.

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United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.

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United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

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United States Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States.

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Upwelling

Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water from deep water towards the ocean surface.

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V. C. Bird International Airport

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Virgin Gorda

Virgin Gorda is the third-largest island (after Tortola and Anegada) and second-most populous of the British Virgin Islands (BVI).

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Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands (Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea.

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Virgin Islands National Park

The Virgin Islands National Park is an American national park preserving about 60% of the land area of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands, as well as more than of adjacent ocean, and nearly all of Hassel Island, just off the Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas harbor.

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Weather Prediction Center

The Weather Prediction Center (WPC), located in College Park, Maryland, is one of nine service centers under the umbrella of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), a part of the National Weather Service (NWS), which in turn is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Lenny

Also known as Hurricane Lenny (1999), Tropical Storm Lenny, Wrong Way Lenny.

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See also

1999 Atlantic hurricane season

1999 in Colombia

1999 in Puerto Rico

1999 in the United States Virgin Islands

Hurricanes in Antigua and Barbuda

Hurricanes in Jamaica

Hurricanes in Saint Barthélemy

Hurricanes in Saint Kitts and Nevis

Hurricanes in Saint Martin (island)

Hurricanes in the British Virgin Islands

Hurricanes in the United States Virgin Islands

References