 Janet 's landfall as a Category 5 hurricane 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 to have taken place on islands . Janet 's minimum barometric pressure , recorded in Chetumal , was at the time the second lowest recorded pressure on land associated with a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic , behind the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane . At least 1 @,@ 023 deaths were attributed to Hurricane Janet , as well as $ 65 @.@ 8 million in damages . The name Janet was later retired from the Atlantic list of tropical cyclone names due to its significance to the scientific research community . 
