It is considered to be the worst natural disaster in that country's history. It was most assuredly the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas. As a newly christened F5 category storm, Dorian struck first made landfall in the Bahamas in Elbow Cay, just east of Abaco Island, on September 1 of 2019, this day in weather history.
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