What is Hurricane Luis?
{{Infobox Hurricane | Name=Hurricane Luis | Type=hurricane | Year=1995 | Basin=Atl | Image location=Luis 1995-09-03 1705Z.jpg | Image name=Hurricane Luis on [[3 September]] [[1995]] at 1705 [[UTC]] | Formed=[[August 27]], [[1995]] | Dissipated=[[September 11]], [[1995]] | 1-min winds=130 | Pressure=935 | Damages=2700 | Inflated=0 | Fatalities=17 direct | Areas=[[Bermuda]], [[Leeward Islands]], [[Newfoundland]] (Canada), [[United States]] | Hurricane season=[[1995 Atlantic hurricane season]] }} '''Hurricane Luis''' was one of the most powerful storms of the very active [[1995 Atlantic hurricane season]]. Even though Luis was strong it was still only the second strongest storm in 1995, the strongest was [[Hurricane Opal]]. Hurricane Luis was the strongest storm to hit the Leeward Islands since [[Hurricane Hugo]] in [[1989]]. From August 22 to September 1 Humberto, Iris, Jerry, Luis, and Karen were active at the same time. Most of the places damaged by Luis were damaged only a week earlier by Hurricane Iris, except for the [[United States]] and [[Newfoundland]] ([[Canada]]) and most of the islands would be damaged again less than two weeks later by Hurricane Marilyn. ==Meteorological History== {{storm path|Luis 1995 track.png|left|200px}} The early stages of Luis's formation is track back to a tropical wave that moved off of [[Africa]] on August 26. The next day it became Tropical Depression Thirteen near [[Cape Verde]]. It reached Tropical Storm status on the 29th and was named Luis. It reached hurricane status on [[August 30]] and reach category 4 strength on [[September 2]]. The next day Luis reached it's highest winds of 150&nbsp;mph making it a [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale|Category 4]]. Luis continued west and crossed over [[Barbuda]] late on September 4. At this time Luis came very close to [[Antigua]], [[St. Barthelemy]], [[St. Martin]] and [[Anguilla]]. Luis turned northwest and while it was 150&nbsp;miles to the north of [[Puerto Rico]] Luis weakened to a category 2 hurricane, after being a major hu