hurricNamed: Named US Atlantic Hurricanes
In jhmaindonald/DAAG: Data Analysis and Graphics Data and Functions

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Details are given of atmospheric pressure at landfall, estimated damage in millions of dollars, and deaths, for named hurricanes that made landfall in the US mainland from 1950 through to 2012.

1	data("hurricNamed")

A data frame with 94 observations on the following 11 variables.

Name: Hurricane name
Year: Numeric
LF.WindsMPH: Maximum sustained windspeed (>= 1 minute) to occur along the US coast. Prior to 1980, this is estimated from the maximum windspeed associated with the Saffir-Simpson index at landfall. If 2 or more landfalls, the maximum is taken
LF.PressureMB: Atmospheric pressure at landfall in millibars. If 2 or more landfalls, the minimum is taken
LF.times: Date of first landfall
BaseDam2014: Property damage (millions of 2014 US dollars)
BaseDamage: Property damage (in millions of dollars for that year)
NDAM2014: Damage, had hurricane appeared in 2014
AffectedStates: Affected states (2-digit abbreviations), pasted together
firstLF: Date of first landfall
deaths: Number of continental US direct and indirect deaths
mf: Gender of name; a factor with levels f m

An earlier version of these data was the subject of a controversial paper that claimed to have found that hurricanes with female names, presumably because taken less seriously, did more human damage after adjusting for the severity of the storm than those with male names.

http://www.icatdamageestimator.com/ Deaths except for Audrey and Katrina, are in the Excel file that is available from http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2014/05/30/1402786111.DCSupplemental NOAA Monthly Weather Reports (MWRs) supplied the numbers of deaths for all except Donna, Celia, Audrey and Katrina. The figure for Celia is from http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NWS-TPC-5.pdf. For the other three hurricanes it is from the Atlantic hurricane list in Wikipedia (see the references.)

http://www.icatdamageestimator.com/ www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/mwr_pdf/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlantic_hurricanes http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1402786111

data(hurricNamed)
str(hurricNamed)
plot(log(deaths+0.5) ~ log(NDAM2014), data=hurricNamed)
with(hurricNamed, lines(lowess(log(deaths+0.5) ~ log(NDAM2014))))
plot(log(deaths+0.5) ~ I(NDAM2014^0.14), data=hurricNamed)
with(hurricNamed, lines(lowess(log(deaths+0.1) ~ I(NDAM2014^0.14))))