Hurricane Matthew (2016)

The storm made its first landfall over Haiti's Tiburon Peninsula early on 4 October 2016 as a strong Category 4, then a second in Cuba later the same day, before crossing the Bahamas and affecting the southeastern United States. It re-emerged into the Atlantic and completed its transition into an extratropical cyclone as it turned away from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on 9 October. Haiti bore the most significant impacts, with US$2.8 billion in damage and a humanitarian crisis.

Formed (UTC)

2016-09-28

Dissipated (UTC)

2016-10-10

Peak Saffir-Simpson category

5

Peak wind (knots, 1-minute)

145

Basin it formed in

North Atlantic

Deaths, as sources state them

674 in Haiti

IBTrACS storm page

ncics.org/ibtracs/index.php?name=v04r01-2016273N13300

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: atlantic hurricane, 2016 season, haiti, cuba, bahamas, landfall

Coordinates: 21.4257401537676, -74.8193051153257

Part of Atlantic hurricanes of category 4 and above in the 2008 to 2016 seasons

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