the season was unusual in that it produced no major hurricanes, which are those of category 3 status or higher on the saffir-simpson hurricane scale. the strongest, hurricane florence, it's top winds were at a category 2 storm with winds of 110 mph (175 km/h). aside from chris, florence, and gordon, none of the storms became hurricanes. a famous hurricane from 1994 would probably be hurricane gordon. hurricane gordon was a strange long lived november hurricane that killed at least 1,100 people in haiti.