abstract:Hurricane Gordon was the first tropical cyclone since 1992 to affect the Azores while retaining tropical characteristics. The eighth tropical storm, third hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, Gordon formed on September 10 in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
HurricaneGordon killed more than 1, 000 people in 1994, while Hurricane Georges killed more than 400 and destroyed the majority of the country's crops in 1998.