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Hurricane Floyd approaching North Carolina, where it would soon make landfall, on September 15, 1999; Floyd later caused the worst modern disaster in the state. [1] 413 known tropical and subtropical cyclones have affected the U.S. state of North Carolina.
The 1948 Atlantic hurricane season featured the first tropical cyclone before the month of June since 1940. [1] The season officially began on June 15, 1948, and lasted until November 15, 1948. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin .
October 26–30, 2012 – Hurricane Sandy passed by the state, dropping heavy rains and making storm surge. July 3–4, 2014 – Hurricane Arthur hits eastern North Carolina, in particular the Outer Banks, with 100 mph (160 km/h). May 7, 2015 – Tropical Storm Ana produced heavy rainfall and indirectly caused a fatality.
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
This Category 5 hurricane hit the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana, and remains the most destructive hurricane to hit Florida. It is one of few hurricanes to hit land as a Category 5 hurricane ...
The list of North Carolina hurricanes between 1950 and 1979 encompasses 79 tropical or subtropical cyclones that affected the U.S. state of North Carolina. Collectively, cyclones in North Carolina during that time period resulted in 37 total fatalities during the period, as well as about $3 billion in damage in 2008 USD. A cyclone affected the ...
US jobless claims hit 258,000, the most in a year. Analysts point to Hurricane Helene, Boeing strike
Payrolls also fell in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. They barely rose in Georgia. J.P. Morgan economist Abiel Reinhart estimated that the hurricanes had subtracted about ...