Hurricane Hugo 1989 This classic Cape Verde hurricane was initially detected as a tropical revolution rising through the shore of Africa on September 9. going steadily westward, the device became a tropical depression the very next day, a tropical storm in the 11th, and a hurricane from the 13th. Hugo switched west-northwest on September 15 because it became a Category 5 hurricane. It had been nevertheless a Category 4 hurricane once the center relocated through the Leeward isles and St.Read More