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Hurricane Vince
Category 1 Atlantic hurricane in 2005 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hurricane Vince was an unusual hurricane that began in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. It was part of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The waters where it formed were thought to be too cold for tropical cyclones to exist. Vince was the 20th named storm and 12th hurricane of the season.
Category 1 hurricane (SSHWS/NWS) | |
![]() Hurricane Vince on October 9 14:13 UTC | |
Formed | October 8, 2005 |
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Dissipated | October 11, 2005 |
Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 75 mph (120 km/h) |
Lowest pressure | 988 mbar (hPa); 29.18 inHg |
Fatalities | None reported |
Areas affected | Madeira Islands, southern Portugal, southwestern Spain |
Part of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season | |
The storm that became Vince started out as an extratropical cyclone. It became a subtropical storm on October 8 to the southeast of the Azores. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) did not officially give the storm a name until the next day. Vince grew into a hurricane before beginning to weaken at sea. On October 11, it made landfall on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain. At that time, it was a tropical depression. It may have been the first storm to hit the area since a hurricane in 1842. Vince died out over Spain. However, it did drop rain on the country. What was left of the storm passed into the Mediterranean Sea. Vince was one of only three storms to do so, alongside the 1842 Spanish hurricane and Subtropical Storm Alpha of 2020.