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Hurricane Laura (2020 Hurricane)
Hurricane Laura was an extremely powerful and deadly category 4 storm that devastated areas near the Texas-Louisiana border, including Lake Charles, Cameron Parish, Sulphur, and Port Arthur. It started as a tropical wave near the Cape Verde Islands, and encountered very warm waters and low wind shear. It caused more than 35 deaths in the Caribbean, as it made landfall as a tropical storm in the Caribbean, and then rapidly strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico to a category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph and gusts nearly up to 200 mph. It killed many more in the US, and it devastated the Lake Charles area.

Damage Cost: $12 Billion (US) Highest Wind Speed: 155 Mph Fatalities: 74 Lowest Pressure: 937 Mbar (hPa); 27.67 inHg Date: August 20, 2020 - August 29, 2020 Areas Affected: Lesser Antilles, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Florida, Mexico, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee Category: Category 4 Hurricane