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1896 Cedar Keys hurricane. 1898 Georgia hurricane. 1910 Cuba hurricane. 1916 Charleston hurricane. 1940 South Carolina hurricane. 1941 Florida hurricane. 1982 Florida subtropical storm. Hurricane Kyle (2002)
As Hurricane Matthew traveled rapidly towards the southeastern region of the United States, it hit closely to the coasts of Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina. On October 7 in Fernandina Beach, Florida, there was a peak surge of 9.88 ft (3.01 m) above normal.
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 ...
Here’s when history tells us to expect the worst. Chase Karacostas. August 8, 2022 at 5:00 AM ... Not a single hurricane reached South Carolina or North Carolina at full strength in 2021, and ...
Hurricane Florence. Hurricane Florence was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that caused catastrophic damage in the Carolinas in September 2018, primarily as a result of freshwater flooding due to torrential rain. The sixth named storm, third hurricane, and the first major hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, Florence ...
Hurricane Hugo (1989): This storm is possibly Myrtle Beach’s most notorious. It was one of the strongest in South Carolina’s history and at the time was the costliest hurricane ever in the ...
Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that caused widespread destruction across its path in early September 2017. Irma was the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands on record, followed by Maria two weeks later. At the time, it was considered the most powerful hurricane on record in the open Atlantic ...
The hurricane watch was upgraded to a hurricane warning after Bob's intensification to Category 1 status. [2] Thousands of residents evacuated coastal areas of South Carolina, many of whom stayed at inland hotels; 850 people sought protection in shelters, including 500 at an elementary school in Horry County and 240 in a shelter in the Grand ...