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2024 Hurricane Rafael

Formed: November 4, 2024
Dissipated: November 11, 2024

Hurricane Rafael was the strongest November tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico on record, tied with 1985's Hurricane Kate. It was the seventeenth named storm, eleventh hurricane, and fifth major hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. (wikipedia.org)

Photo from National Hurricane Center 11/6/2024 1 p.m. EST.

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My Community Explorer

An Equity Tool to Identify Underserved Communities

My Community Explorer (MCE) is a map-based dashboard that provides selected demographic, business, and resilience information to help users identify potentially underserved areas of their state, counties, and communities. MCE also allows users to see the relationship of underserved communities to current natural disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, air quality, extreme heat, and other severe weather events.

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Page Last Revised - November 13, 2024
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