Michael was a C3 tropical cyclone that formed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2018. The storm reached maximum sustained winds of 259 km/h (140 kt) with a minimum central pressure of 919 hPa. Tracking across the Gulf of Mexicoin the North Atlantic basin (, it potentially affected the US Gulf Coast, Mexico and Cuba. The storm traveled from approximately 17.8°-86.9° to 48.8°-10.0°, crossing a range of 31 latitude and 77 longitude.