The storm dissipated near the northeast Florida and southeast Georgia coast by the morning of October 1, 1998. After landfall, Georges moved very slowly across southern Mississippi and weakened to a tropical depression by the morning of the 29th when the center was about 30 miles north northeast of Mobile, AL. For the second time in less than a month, the northern Gulf Coast was again threatened by a hurricane! Georges made landfall near Biloxi, MS in the early morning hours of September 28th with maximum winds of 110mph and a minimum pressure of 964mb. The hurricane maintained Category 2 intensity as it tracked through the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Georges made landfall in Key West, FL on the morning of the 25th as a Category 2 hurricane. However, Georges began to re-intensify as it trekked north of the Cuban coast and tracked west-northwest toward the Gulf of Mexico. The track over the mountainous terrain weakened Georges to a Category 1 hurricane. Georges tracked across Puerto Rico, the island of Hispaniola, and eastern Cuba from the evening of the 21st through the 24th.
Georges strengthened to a hurricane on September 17th and reached Category 4 intensity on September 19th. Hurricane Georges formed on Septemas a tropical depression 300 miles south southwest of the Cape Verde Islands in the far eastern Atlantic.
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