Active Atlantic: Four Storms in One Day

Suddenly, there's a lot to talk about. The remnants of Gustav, now a tropical depression, continues to drift north across Louisiana and Arkansas. Hanna was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved across northern Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Tropical Storm Ike is in the central Atlantic and moving westward. And Tropical Storm Josephine formed out of a tropical wave that just emerged off the west coast of Africa.

That's a lot, but it's not a record.

On September 26, 1998 there were four active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin...and they were all hurricanes. Ivan, Jeanne and Karl were spinning around the central Atlantic while hurricane Georges was tracking across the Gulf of Mexico toward an eventual landfall in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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