Hurricane Carrie was a deadly and long-lived Category 4 major hurricane which was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 1957 Atlantic hurricane season and one of the longest-lasting tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin. The third named storm and second hurricane of the year, Carrie formed from an easterly tropical wave off the western coast of Africa on September 2, a type of tropical cyclogenesis typical of Cape Verde-type hurricanes.
Hurricane Carrie was a deadly and long-lived Category 4 major hurricane which was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 1957 Atlantic hurricane season and one of the longest-lasting tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin. The third named storm and second hurricane of the year, Carrie formed from an easterly tropical wave off the western coast of Africa on September 2, a type of tropical cyclogenesis typical of Cape Verde-type hurricanes.
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