4. After moving across the tropical Atlantic Ocean it developed into Tropical Depression Eight on September 10 while about 1240 miles (2000 km) east of Puerto Rico. The depression quickly strengthened and reached hurricane strength on September 11, peaked as a Category 2 hurricane on September 12 as it made a half circle, weakened to a Category 1 on September 16 and bounced back the way it came. Earl then turned north and became extratropical southeast of Newfoundland on September 19. At its peak, Earl had sustained winds of and a minimum central pressure of 979 mbar. Hurricane Frances First spotted as a tropical disturbance near the Lesser Antilles on November 15, the system moved generally northward while slowly developing. The system organized into a tropical depression on November 18 and quickly strengthened into a tropical storm. The storm curved northeast and strengthened further, reaching hurricane strength on November 20. However, a surface high-pressure system to the north caused the storm to weaken as the vertical wind shear increased over its center. Frances was later absorbed by an extratropical cyclone on November 21. Storm names The following names were used for named storms that formed in the north Atlantic in 1986. No names were retired, so they were used again in the 1992 season. This is the same list used for the 1980 season except for Andrew, which replaced Allen, and was used for the first time in 1986. Season effects This is a table of all of the storms that did form in the 1986 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s) – denoted by bold location names – damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses will be additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still related to that storm. Damage and deaths will include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or low, and all of the damage figures are in 1986 USD. |- | Andrew || || bgcolor=#| || || || The Carolinas || Minimal || || |- | Bonnie || || bgcolor=#| || || || Texas, Louisiana, Southeastern United States || || (1) || |- | Three || || bgcolor=#| || || || None || None || None || |- | Unnumbered || || bgcolor=#| || || || None || None || None || |- | Charley || || bgcolor=#| || || ||