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[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 ...
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]
The first documented hurricane in 1850 originated in the Caribbean Sea, [3] where it wrecked dozens of ships along the Windward Islands on July 11 and 12. [9] On July 18, the storm struck North Carolina from the south as a hurricane of at least Category 1 intensity (on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale) and proceeded ...
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 ...
The Carolina Hurricane of 1803 August 31-September 1. A minimal hurricane right on its heels of the prior one hit near New Bern, North Carolina on August 31 and September 1. This type of tropical cyclone succession up the coast is similar to the Connie/Diane East coast landfalls of 1955. [12] [13]
Hurricane Helene's catastrophic impact across North Carolina, Georgia seen in before-and-after photos. ... 2024 at 4:43 PM. Google Maps, Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images, Google ...
The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene was especially extensive in western North Carolina, a region far from the Florida coast where the system made landfall as a Category 4 storm.
North Carolina has been approved for a Federal Major Disaster Declaration. People walk near a storm damaged McDonalds in the Biltmore Village in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on September 28 ...