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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 Florence (2018) During Hurricane Florence in 2018, ... The storm caused nearly $30 million in damage to North Myrtle Beach. Hurricane Fran (1996): This Category 3 storm’s impact was ...
Tracks of hurricanes over Florida from 1950 to 1974. 85 Atlantic tropical or subtropical cyclones have affected the U.S. state of Florida from 1950 to 1964. Collectively, tropical cyclones in Florida during the time period resulted in about $7.04 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from Hurricanes Donna and Dora.
The Intracoastal Waterway near U.S. 544 is sitting around 16.6 feet high and could reach 17 feet by Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. The area reached a moderate flood stage late ...
September 7–17, 2018 – Hurricane Florence made landfall less than a mile south of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina with winds of 90 mph (145 km/h). The hurricane was first declared a threat to the state on Friday. Several people were rescued offshore due to rip currents affecting the area.
Florence made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane at 7:15 a.m. at Wrightsville Beach, a few miles east of Wilmington and not far from the South Carolina line, coming ashore along a mostly boarded ...
Tropical Storm Helene jogged north on Monday, sparing the Myrtle Beach area with the worst of her impacts and inundating coastal North Carolina communities with torrential rains.
Hurricane Floyd. The effects of Hurricane Floyd in North Carolina was the costliest natural disaster in the state's history until it was surpassed by Hurricane Florence in 2018. After the storm, the name Floyd was retired and removed from the Atlantic hurricane naming list. The United States government provided North Carolina with over $277 ...