Hurricane Flora is among the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes in recorded Recording history , with a death Death total of at least 7,193 .

Flora continued to quickly strengthen Cause_change_of_strength to reach Arriving Category 3 hurricane status before moving Motion through the Windward Islands and passing Motion_directional over Tobago , and it reached Arriving maximum sustained winds of in the Caribbean .

Flora passed Motion_directional over the Bahamas and accelerated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale northeastward , becoming Becoming an extratropical cyclone on October 12 .

Due Causation to its slow movement Causation across Cuba , Flora is the wettest known tropical cyclone for Cuba , Haiti , and the Dominican Republic .

The significant casualties Catastrophe caused by Flora were the most for a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin since the 1900 Galveston Hurricane .