Famous Hurricanes

Can you name these famous hurricanes and typhoons from their peak intensity, year happened, and description?

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"Famous" is defined as record-breaking or well known culturally in a country/the world, and "hurricane" refers to North Atlantic storms.

All hurricane names come from a meteorological agency or what it is widely referred to (before naming hurricanes became a practice)

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Intensity	Hint	Year	Name
Category 5	Earliest forming Category 5 hurricane	2005	Emily
Category 1	Latest forming hurricane in history, one of two named storms to occur over two years	1954-55	Alice
Category 5	Holder of multiple records, including fastest intensification from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane	2005	Wilma
Category 5	Costliest Category 5 hurricane, famous for flooding New Orleans	2005	Katrina
Category 4	Costliest Category 4 hurricane, stalled over the Houston metropolitan area for two days	2017	Harvey
Category 5	Deadliest named hurricane, killing over 11,300 in Honduras and Nicaragua	1998	Mitch
Category 5	Spawned over 120 tornadoes across Alabama and Florida, the most in recorded history	2004	Ivan
Category 3	The first (by time spawned) hurricane whose name was retired. A year earlier, a storm of the same name became the first named Category 5 hurricane.	1954	Carol

Intensity	Hint	Year	Name
Category 5	The first confirmed Category 5 hurricane, also stayed at Category 5 strength for the longest time	1924	1924 Cuba Hurricane
Category 4	The deadliest hurricane in United States history, killing over 8,000	1900	Great Galveston Hurricane
Category 3	Unofficially referred to as a "superstorm", made landfall in the New York City area	2012	Sandy
Category 1	Only hurricane officially regarded to strike Europe, hitting southern Spain	2005	Vince
Category 5	Longest continuous span as a Category 5 hurricane, first hurricane on record to strike the northern Lesser Antilles	2017	Irma
Category 5	Famous for the devastation it caused to Puerto Rico, destroyed the island's power grid	2017	Maria
Category 5	Highest sustained wind speed at landfall in history, most intense hurricane to strike the Bahamas	2019	Dorian

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