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The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was a very active and extremely destructive Atlantic hurricane season, producing 18 named storms, 11 hurricanes, and 5 major hurricanes; it was also the first since 2019 to feature multiple Category 5 hurricanes.
The North Carolina State Climate Office at North Carolina State University reported that its Mount Mitchell weather station recorded 24.41 in (620 mm) of rainfall. The office referred to the total as "off the charts", comparing it to 16.5 in (420 mm) of rainfall being a once-in-1,000-year flood for the area.
August 6-8, 2024 - Hurricane Debby crosses into North Carolina as a weak tropical storm and dumps heavy rain and spawns tornadoes. A low-end EF3 tornado kills a person near Lucama. Another person is killed in Greensboro when a tree falls inside a home.
Due to the number of powerful hurricanes, including long-lived storms like Ernesto and Kirk, the ACE for the 2024 season is 161.6, higher than any of the past three hurricane seasons.
No. 4: North Carolina. Just north in the Tar Heel State, North Carolina saw 58 hurricanes (seven being a Category 3 or Category 4). The state has also never been hit with a Category 5. No. 3 ...
Updated October 1, 2024 at 7:19 PM. ... “Communities were wiped off the map,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said. Entire communities in the state are underwater, with dozens of people dead in ...
The most recent tropical cyclone to affect North Carolina was Hurricane Debby in August 2024, causing heavy rainfall, significant flooding, and multiple tornadoes across the state. The most recent tropical cyclone to make landfall in North Carolina was Tropical Storm Ophelia , making landfall near Emerald Isle as a high-end tropical storm with ...
The 2024 hurricane season, foreseen as an impending disaster due to record-setting Atlantic warmth and a shear-reducing La Nina pattern, lived up to the hype with two major hurricane landfalls in ...