in the early 1950s, atlantic tropical cyclones were named via the joint army/navy phonetic alphabet. hurricane fox of 1952 was the final atlantic tropical cyclone to be designated with this naming system, and a female list of tropical cyclone names was utilized in the 1953 atlantic hurricane season. after the stronger 1917 pinar del río hurricane, hurricane fox was cuba's second most intense landfall until hurricane michelle struck the island in 2001. originally, the 1917 hurricane was believed to have been a category 3 hurricane prior to the atlantic hurricane reanalysis, which made fox the second category 4 landfall after the 1932 cuba hurricane. at the time, fox was the fourth most intense hurricane to strike cuba in terms of atmospheric pressure; only the 1917, 1924, and 1932 storms were stronger at one point in their life spans.