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Hurricane Debby was a slow-moving, erratic, and destructive tropical cyclone that caused widespread and severe flooding across the Eastern United States and portions of Eastern Canada, becoming the costliest natural disaster in the history of the Canadian province of Quebec.
Hurricane Debbie was an intense and long-lived hurricane that formed during August 1969. The fifth tropical cyclone, fourth named storm, third hurricane and second major hurricane of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, Debbie formed on August 14 in the southern Atlantic Ocean and took a general northwesterly path until turning northward into the central Atlantic.
Tropical Storm Debby is slamming the Southeast with heavy rain after making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday. ... Flood Watches remain in effect from Georgia to Virginia as ...
Debbie accelerated and fell to below Category 2 intensity by 12:00 UTC on August 23. Six hours later Debbie became extratropical while still bearing hurricane-force winds, shortly before passing just offshore Newfoundland. The remnants of Debbie turned northeastward and deteriorated to gale strength late on August 24.
The National Weather Service office in Wakefield has issued a flood watch for central and south-central Virginia through Friday, anticipating Debby’s arrival.
A flood watch and hazardous weather outlook are in effect for the Augusta County area Thursday through Friday as Tropical Storm Debby draws closer to Virginia and the upper East Coast.
In addition, Debby, which smashed into Steinhatchee, Florida, on Monday, was the 4th hurricane to make landfall in Florida in August since 2000. The other three were: Charley (2004), Katrina (2005 ...
The following day, Debbie intensified and reached its peak intensity as a strong Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (140 km/h). The hurricane gradually slowed its forward motion and weakened. [3] By September 13, Debbie's motion became influenced by the westerlies, causing the system to accelerate east-northeastward. [29]