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September 3, 2010 – Hurricane Earl passes just east of the Outer Banks, inundating portions of North Carolina Highway 12 with storm surge and producing hurricane-force wind gusts that severely damaged six houses. Moderate crop damage was reported further inland, and monetary damage in the state reached $2.5 million (2010 USD).
Hurricane Katrina's winds and storm surge reached the Mississippi coastline on the morning of August 29, 2005, [2] [3] beginning a two-day path of destruction through central Mississippi; by 10 a.m. CDT on August 29, 2005, the eye of Katrina began traveling up the entire state, only slowing from hurricane-force winds at Meridian near 7 p.m. and ...
Hurricane Katrina was a powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. It is tied with Hurricane Harvey as being the costliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin.
North Carolina, like Georgia and Alabama, activated hundreds of its own National Guard, and the governors of Maryland, and at least 17 other states sent Guard units of their own. Three federal ...
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.
On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast -- leaving its mark as one of the strongest storms to ever impact the U.S. coast. Devastation ranged from Louisiana to Alabama to ...
Beachgoers mill around the beach and play in the surf at Carolina Beach, North Carolina. More than 90 people had to be rescued from rip currents during the second-to-last weekend of June 2024 at ...
The eye of Hurricane Katrina as viewed from a NOAA Lockheed WP-3D Orion on August 28. Late on August 28, another eyewall replacement cycle began as Katrina turned due north toward Louisiana. However, an increase in wind shear and entrainment of dry air interrupted this cycle. As the inner eyewall collapsed, the outer one failed to consolidate ...