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October 13, 1893 – A major hurricane moves ashore near the South Carolina/North Carolina border, producing record high tides in Wilmington that causes heavy coastal damage; damage to the Wilmington waterfront totals $150,000 (1893 USD, $3.4 million 2007 USD). A total of 22 lives are lost in the state due to the hurricane. [2]
[15] [16] In September 2010, Category 2 Hurricane Earl passed roughly 100 miles off the coast of North Carolina, bringing heavy rainfall, storm surge, and strong winds for much of the Outer Banks. Category 1 Hurricane Irene hit the Outer Banks in August 2011, making it the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane ...
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 ...
South–Central United States Damage in 1946 United States dollars. 1945 Tornado outbreak: 43 $1.972 million Tornado outbreak of February 12, 1945: Alabama and Mississippi Damage in 1945 United States dollars. This outbreak included a devastating tornado that struck Montgomery, Alabama, killing 26 people. The U.S. Weather Bureau would describe ...
Collectively, tropical cyclones caused more than US$1.2 trillion in damage, unadjusted for inflation, and have killed more than 2.6 million people. Most of these deaths were caused by a few deadly cyclones, including the 1737 Calcutta cyclone , the 1839 Coringa cyclone , the 1931 Shanghai typhoon , the 1970 Bhola cyclone , Typhoon Nina in 1975 ...
Gales were reported from Savannah, Georgia, to Wilmington, North Carolina. [20] [28] Near Halifax, North Carolina, the winds toppled a railroad bridge about 450 ft (140 m) long and 60 ft (18 m) high. [26] The storm also ravaged farmland in the area, destroying crops, fences, trees, and structures, and injuring several people. [29]
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The 1859 Atlantic hurricane season featured seven hurricanes, the most recorded during an Atlantic hurricane season until 1870. [1] However, in the absence of modern satellite and other remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea were recorded, so the actual total could be higher.