Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 2,

2022
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Hurricane Sergio was a powerful and long-lived tropical cyclone that hit the Baja
California Peninsula as a tropical storm and caused flooding throughout southern
Texas in early October 2018. Sergio became the eighth Category  4 hurricane in
the East Pacific for 2018, breaking the record of seven set in the 2015 season. The
twentieth named storm, eleventh hurricane, and ninth major hurricane of the
season, Sergio organized into a tropical storm on September  29 and became a
hurricane on October 2. It peaked as a Category 4 hurricane on October 4, with
reported maximum sustained winds of 140  mph (220  km/h). It maintained peak
Sergio approaching the intensity for 12 hours before weakening. The system then began another period of
Baja California Peninsula intensification, achieving a secondary peak with reported winds of 125  mph
on October 11 (205  km/h) on October  6. It made landfall in western Baja California Sur on
October 12, caused over US$2 million in damage, and triggered over a thousand
school closures. (This article is part of a featured topic: 2018 Pacific hurricane season.)

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