The Rain Bomb: How a Huge âMicroburstâ Fell From the Sky in Australia (Video)
Galveston Texas was hit by the most famous hurricane in the early 1900s Katrina is the most famous of recent Hurricaines due to the flooding of new Orleans that resulted froâ¦m it. Hurricane Katrina is more famous than Ike. It was also more recent. Ike hit the entire east coast.
Even though Patricia has already smashed records for hurricanes, it's not the most powerful storm to spin up. Super Typhoon Tip (hurricane, typhoon, and cyclone are different names for the same type of storm) grazed Japan in October 1979 and holds the record for the most powerful tropical cyclone on record based on minimum atmospheric pressure measurements.