Hurricane Luis caused about $47 million in damage to the island nation. In Dominica, larges waves from Hurricane Luis caused one fisherman to get killed. Luis dropped 2.4 to 4.7 inches of rain while it passed over Newfoundland on September 11. In Newfoundland, Luis killed one person and caused about $500,000 in damage. The only Providence in Canada affected by Luis was Newfoundland. The ship was not damaged but it arrived late in New York. On September 11 a ship called Queen Elizabeth 2 got caught in the 98 foot wave that Luis caused. However, there was no damage or people killed in Bermuda. In Bermuda winds were reported up to 46 mph. The government of the country spent about $350 million in U.S. In Barbuda nearly 70% of houses were either destroyed of damaged. In Antigua about 50% of houses were either destroyed of damaged. Luis caused a lot of damage in Antigua and Barbuda because it made landfall in that country. Many of the Island Countries were affected by Hurricane Iris a week before many would also be affected by Hurricane Marilyn only ten days later.Īntigua and Barbuda These were the places impacted by Hurricane Luis. Impact Ī satellite image of the Atlantic Ocean on August 24 including Humberto, Iris, Jerry, and two waves that would soon become Karen and Luis That same day Luis became extratropical and died near Greenland. Luis made landfall in eastern Newfoundland on September 11 while a category 1. While Luis was offshore of Newfoundland he caused a wave more than 98 feet tall. Luis kept slowly weakening and headed to the northeast. Luis turned northwest and while it was 150 miles to the north of Puerto Rico Luis weakened to a category 2 hurricane, after being a major hurricane for a week. At this time Luis came very close to Antigua, St. Luis continued west and crossed over Barbuda late on September 4. The next day Luis reached it's highest winds of 150 mph making it a Category 4. It reached hurricane status on August 30 and reach category 4 strength on September 2. It reached Tropical Storm status on the 29th and was named Luis. The next day it became Tropical Depression Thirteen near Cape Verde. The early stages of Luis's formation is track back to a tropical wave that moved off of Africa on August 26. Most of the places damaged by Luis were damaged only a week earlier by Hurricane Iris, except for the United States and Newfoundland ( Canada) and most of the islands would be damaged again less than two weeks later by Hurricane Marilyn. From August 22 to September 1 Humberto, Iris, Jerry, Luis, and Karen were active at the same time. Hurricane Luis was the strongest storm to hit the Leeward Islands since Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
Even though Luis was strong it was still only the second strongest storm in 1995, the strongest was Hurricane Opal. Hurricane Luis was one of the most powerful storms of the very active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season. Part of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Luis on 3 September 1995 at 1705 UTCīermuda, Leeward Islands, Newfoundland (Canada), United States
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