According to a study by Janet Franklin et al. , storms Catastrophe similar in intensity to Waka , on average , strike Attack Tonga once every 33 years .

Hurricane Janet was the most powerful tropical cyclone of the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season and one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes Catastrophe on record .

Janet was also the first named storm to have 1,000 deaths and the first Category 5 named storm to be retired Removing .

The eleventh tropical storm , ninth hurricane Catastrophe , and fourth major hurricane Catastrophe of the year , Janet formed Coming_to_be from a tropical wave east of the Lesser Antilles on September 21 .

Moving Motion westward across the Caribbean Sea , Janet fluctuated Motion in intensity , but generally strengthened Cause_change_of_strength before reaching Achieve its peak intensity as a Category 5 hurricane Catastrophe with winds of .

Janet quickly weakened Cause_change_of_strength over Mexico 's mountainous terrain before dissipating Removing on September 30 .

In its developmental stages , Janet caused Causation $ 7.8 million in damage to the Lesser Antilles and 189 deaths in the Grenadines and Barbados .

While Janet was in the central Caribbean Sea , a reconnaissance aircraft flew Motion into the storm and was lost Earnings_and_losses , with all eleven crew members believed Know to be perished Death .

A Category 5 upon landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula , Janet caused Causation severe devastation in areas of Quintana Roo and British Honduras .

Janet 's landfall as a Category 5 hurricane Catastrophe on the Yucatán Peninsula was the first recorded instance that a storm of such intensity in the Atlantic made landfall on a continental mainland ; prior to Janet , landfalls of Category 5 intensity were only known Know to have taken place Process_start on islands .

Janet 's landfall as a Category 5 hurricane Catastrophe on the Yucatán Peninsula was the first recorded instance that a storm of such intensity in the Atlantic made landfall on a continental mainland ; prior to Janet , landfalls of Category 5 intensity were only known Know to have taken place Process_start on islands .

Janet 's minimum barometric pressure , recorded Recording in Chetumal , was at the time the second-lowest-recorded pressure on land associated Collaboration with a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic , behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane .

Ongoing flooding Catastrophe caused Causation an outbreak Process_start of dysentery Bodily_harm , and about 10 days after Hilda struck Attack , Hurricane Catastrophe Janet struck Attack the same region and caused Causation further flooding Catastrophe and damage Damaging .

Flanagan passed Arriving the 25K mark in 1:22:36 , surpassing Destroying Janet Bawcom 's previous American 25K record of 1:24:36 .

The game Social_event is also known Know for its controversial halftime show in which Janet Jackson 's breast , adorned with a nipple shield , was exposed Reveal_secret by Justin Timberlake for about half a second , in what was later referred Adducing to as a `` wardrobe malfunction '' .