Hurricane Frances - Category Four Storm

Hurricane Frances was the sixth named storm, the fourth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. The system crossing the open Atlantic during mid to late August, moving to the north of the Lesser Antilles while strengthening. Frances then passed over the central sections of the state of Florida in the U.S. only three weeks after Hurricane Charley, causing significant damage. The storm then moved briefly offshore Florida into the northeast Gulf of Mexico  and made a second U.S. landfall at the Florida Panhandle before accelerating northeast through the eastern United States.