At 1:45 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time, August 9, 2004, the formation of Tropical Depression Three was announced by the National Hurricane Center. It was named Tropical Storm Charley by 5:00 a.m. the next day, and became a hurricane by 2:00 p.m. the day after that. Just 100 hours after it formed, the category-four Hurricane Charley hit Florida's west coast, and became the first full-fledged hurricane to cross over Orlando in over 40 years, and the strongest to hit the United States since Andrew in 1992. It also ended up being just the first of three hurricanes that hit Central Florida over a 7-week period.
There. You've read all you need to know. Now you can join me in spending the rest of your week trying to avoid all the local reporters stumbling over themselves to produce the inevitable one-year-later retrospectives that will inundate us by Saturday.
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