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Fran also destroyed the basketball gym on the campus of St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, North Carolina as well as 3 piers in Surf City. Rainfall from Hurricane Fran in the United States. Total damage in North Carolina amounted to over $2.4 billion. [24] This was the second hurricane to make landfall on North Carolina that year.
Bertha made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on the coast of North Carolina, causing a total of 12 deaths and $335 million (1996 USD) in damage. Hurricane Fran made landfall in the same general area a little over a month later as a Category 3 hurricane, causing 37 deaths and $5 billion in damage.
The list of North Carolina hurricanes from 1980 to 1999 encompasses approximately 68 tropical or subtropical cyclones that affected the U.S. state of North Carolina. Collectively, cyclones in North Carolina during the time period resulted in around $10 billion in damage (2007 USD), primarily from hurricanes Fran and Floyd. Additionally ...
As Hurricane Dorian pushes through the North Carolina coast, many are remembering the 23rd anniversary of Hurricane Fran, which made landfall near Cape Fear around 8:30 p.m.
Hurricane Fran caused $3.2 billion (1996 USD) worth of damage in the United States, mostly in North Carolina, and killed 26 people. [4] Hurricane Hortense dropped torrential rainfall on southwestern Puerto Rico and the eastern Dominican Republic, killing 21 people and leaving behind $127 million (1996 USD) in damage. [5]
A lot of people are commenting that Florence is looking a lot like Hurricane Fran, which devastated North Carolina in September of 1996. How similar are they?
The strongest hurricane to hit the state during this time period was Hurricane Fran in 1996, which struck near Wilmington as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; Hurricane Emily in 1993 brushed the Outer Banks, also as a Category 3 hurricane. [2]
The storm caused nearly $30 million in damage to North Myrtle Beach. Hurricane Fran (1996): This Category 3 storm’s impact was worsened by that of Hurricane Bertha, which hit the Carolinas just ...