<Li> The least active season on record since 1946 (when the database is considered more reliable) was the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, with one tropical storm, two hurricanes, and one major hurricane . Overall, the 1914 Atlantic hurricane season remains the least active, with only one documented storm . </Li> <Li> The most intense hurricane (by barometric pressure) on record to form in the North Atlantic basin was Hurricane Wilma (2005) (882 mbar). </Li> <Li> The largest hurricane (in gale diameter) on record to form in the North Atlantic was Hurricane Sandy (2012) with a gale diameter of 1,100 miles (1,800 km). </Li> <Li> The longest - lasting hurricane was the San Ciriaco's Hurricane of 1899, which lasted for 27 days and 18 hours as a tropical cyclone . </Li>

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