High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hurricane Able was the first named tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean, and was also the first of a record eight major hurricanes in the 1950 Atlantic hurricane season. Its development was confirmed on August 12 by the Hurricane Hunters, which is a group that intentionally flies into a hurricane for observations. Hurricane Able reached peak winds of 140 mph (225 km/h), and initially threatened to strike the Bahamas. Instead, it turned to the northwest and later to the northeast. After brushing the Outer Banks and Cape Cod, Able moved ashore on Nova Scotia as a rapidly weakening tropical storm. It later crossed Newfoundland and dissipated on August 22.