1. HURRICANE
MITCH
By Carme Català Caturla

2. WHAT IS A HURRICANE?
Hurricane is the name
given to tropical
cyclones in some parts
of the world.
It is a violent tropical
storm with winds
spiraling around a
nucleus, called the eye.

3. AFFECTED AREAS:
CENTRAL AMERICA:
Honduras
Nicaragua
El Salvador and Guatemala
The Yucatán Peninsula
South Florida

4. WHAT HAPPENED?
• It began as a tropical wave from Africa and
moved across the ocean to the Caribbean Sea.
• Mitch began to organize in the north of
Colombia.
• It became a tropical depression, it moved
slowly to the west until it became a tropical
storm.
• It began to intensify quickly and became a
category 5 hurricane.

5. • It moved along the coast of Nicaragua and Honduras.
When it landed, the hurricane began to fall and became
a tropical depression over Guatemala.
• Mitch was reorganized in Bay of Campeche. It first
passed over Yucatan and then through the southeastern
Gulf of Mexico.
• Mitch landed in Florida for the last time, became extra
tropical storm, and accelerated in the North Atlantic.

6. EFFECTS OF THE HURRICANE
The consequences of t he hur r i cane
w e accent uat ed by t he i nt ense
er
def or est at i on of sl opes of t he
mount ai ns and m essy and pr ecar i ous
occupat i on of t he popul at i on. These
ci r cum ances r esul t ed i n a l ar ge
st
num ber of di spl acem s t hat bur i ed
ent
many houses and i nf r ast r uct ur es.

7. PICTURES OF THE FLOODS

8. DEAD AND MISSING PEOPLE
o Mitch is responsible for over nine thousand deaths
predominantly from rain-induced flooding in parts of
Central America.
o The death toll also included 31 fatalities caused by the
sinking of the cruiser Fantome.
o Another 9191 persons were listed as missing.
o In the wake of Hurricane Mitch, there were outbreaks of
diseases in Central America, including
cholera, leptospirosis and dengue.

9. OTHER HURRICANES
• Hurricane Katrina was one of the most deadly
tropical cyclones, destructive and costly to has
impacted America in decades.
• Hurricane Wilma was the twenty-first tropical
storm and twelfth hurricane of the Atlantic
hurricane season in 2005.

10. DID YOU KNOW THAT?
In the Atlantic coast high coconut
trees have begun to
disappear. Hurricane Mitch brought
LY, that kills this species of palms.

11. WHAT CAN I DO?
• Check you the stability of your building or home.
• Secure the roof of your house to the structure.
• Check your home installations, electricity, water, gas,
health, etc..
• Be located where is the police, the hospital or health
center nearest you, and their phone numbers.
• toxic or flammable products should be placed in areas
where it is impossible to have any leaks or cause a fire.
• If you have trees near your home, make sure they are
pruned or cause danger.
• Clean the external pipe and make sure they are secure.
• Plan an evacuation route that all the family knows.
• Keep a "kit" for these emergency cases.

12. Bibliography
• Wikipedia, Hurricane Mitch
• Google images
• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1998mitch.html
(NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER)
• http://foroarchivo.infojardin.com/palmera/t-
135928.html (LY, forum)
• http://www.naturaldisaster.us/hurricane_mitc
h/encyclopedia.htm
• http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/mitch/mi
tch.html