Tropical Storm Philippe (2017)

Tropical Storm Philippe
Tropical Storm Philippe moving over Florida, Cuba, and The Bahamas on October 28
Meteorological history
FormedOctober 28, 2017
DissipatedOctober 29, 2017
Tropical storm
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/NWS)
Highest winds40 mph (65 km/h)
Lowest pressure1000 mbar (hPa); 29.53 inHg
Overall effects
Fatalities5 total
Damage$100 million (2017 USD)
Areas affectedCentral America, Cayman Islands, Yucatán Peninsula, Cuba, East Coast of the United States
IBTrACS

Part of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season

Tropical Storm Philippe was a weak and disorganized tropical cyclone which affected Central America, Cuba, and Florida during October 2017. The sixteenth named storm of the extremely-active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Philippe originated from the interaction of a tropical wave which exited the coast of West Africa on October 16, and the Central American Gyre on October 24. This formed a broad area of low pressure the next day, that later organized into a tropical depression at 12:00 UTC on October 28. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Philippe just six hours later, before making landfall west of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba just a few hours later. Philippe quickly degraded into a tropical depression inland, before dissipating at 0:00 UTC the following day. The remnants later formed into a new low pressure area off the coast of Florida before merging with a cold front, later that same day.