The system maintained curved rainbands with expanding outflow, and with light wind shear and warm water temperatures the environment favored further development. Upon becoming a tropical cyclone, the depression was located to the south of a strong ridge, resulting in a west-northwest motion. Convection increased early the next day, and a Hurricane Hunters flight into the system reported the presence of a closed low-level circulation accordingly, the National Hurricane Center initiated advisories on Tropical Depression Six at 2100 UTC on August 31 while it was located about 180 mi (290 km) east-southeast of the southern Windward Islands. For the next several days the system failed to organize significantly however, on August 30 the wave became better defined with more representation of the cyclonic turning into the low. The wave continued to develop moderate to strong convection, and on August 27 a 1012 mbar ( hPa 29.88 inHg) low pressure area developed about 830 mi (1,340 km) west-southwest of Praia, Cape Verde. By August 25 visible satellite imagery indicated broad cyclonic turning just north of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. Initially difficult to locate on satellites, the wave axis tracked through a moist environment and developed an area of scattered thunderstorms. Meteorological history Map plotting the storm's track and intensity, according to the Saffir–Simpson scaleĮxtratropical cyclone, remnant low, tropical disturbance, or monsoon depressionĪ tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa on August 24, tracking westward at approximately 14 mph (23 km/h) with no associated deep convection and a weak low-level inverted-V curvature.
Because of its devastating impact on Central America, especially on Nicaragua, its name was retired after the 2007 season. On September 4, Felix made landfall just south of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras, causing at least 133 deaths and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in Central America. On the next day, Felix rapidly strengthened into a major hurricane, and early on September 3 it was upgraded to Category 5 status at 2100 UTC on the same day, the hurricane was downgraded to Category 4 status, but strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane for the second and final time by the morning of September 4.
Felix formed from a tropical wave on August 31, passing through the southern Windward Islands on September 1 before strengthening to attain hurricane status. It was the sixth named storm, second hurricane, and second Category 5 hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Felix was an extremely powerful Category 5 Atlantic hurricane which was the southernmost-landfalling Category 5 storm on record, surpassing Hurricane Edith of 1971.
Part of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season Trinidad and Tobago, Windward Islands, Venezuela, Leeward Antilles, Aruba, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Mexico Felix at peak intensity north of Colombia, early on September 3
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