<Tr> <Th> Areas affected </Th> <Td> Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles and Lucayan Archipelago </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Part of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season </Td> </Tr> <P> Hurricane Tomas was the latest recorded tropical cyclone on a calendar year to strike the Windward Islands . The nineteenth named storm and twelfth hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Tomas developed from a tropical wave east of the Windward Islands on October 29 . Quickly intensifying into a hurricane, it moved through the Windward Islands and passed over Saint Lucia . After reaching Category 2 status on the Saffir - Simpson scale, Tomas quickly weakened to a tropical storm in the central Caribbean Sea, due to strong wind shear and dry air . Tomas later regained hurricane status as it reorganized near the Windward passage . </P> <P> Throughout the hurricane's path, 71 people are known to have been killed, 14 of whom were in Saint Lucia . Monetary losses throughout the Windward Islands were estimated at US $588 million, mainly in Saint Lucia . In the wake of the storm in Haiti, flooding intensified an ongoing cholera outbreak indirectly causing more fatalities . However, direct impacts from the hurricane in Haiti were less than anticipated . Overall damage from the storm was at least $741 million . </P>

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