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Time is running short to get out of the way of Hurricane Florence, a monster of a storm that has a region of more than 10 million people in its potentially devastating sights as it zeroes in on ...
Hurricane Isabel (2003) – Took a similar path to Florence late in its lifetime; made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane Hurricane Joaquin (2015) – Category 4 hurricane that contributed to historic flooding in the Carolinas, even though the storm itself never made landfall in the Carolinas
It is on track to become the first Category 4 storm to make a direct hit on North Carolina in six decades, threatening torrential rain and severe flooding.
Hurricane Florence was the first North Atlantic hurricane to produce hurricane-force winds on the island of Bermuda since Hurricane Fabian in September 2003. [1] The seventh tropical storm and second hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season , Florence developed from a tropical wave in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on September 3.
Both North Carolina's and South Carolina's records for highest rainfall totals from a single tropical storm were established during Florence: 23.63 inches at Loris, South Carolina, and 35.93 ...
The hurricane's motion accelerated and shifted northwest by this time, a trajectory it would maintain for several days. [37] Hurricane Florence achieved its initial peak intensity late on September 10 with sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km/h) and a pressure of 940 mbar (hPa; 27.76 inHg).
The police chief of an island in the bull's-eye of Hurricane Florence is warning stragglers who refused to evacuate that they are making a dangerous choice.
Hurricane Isabel. A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center, a closed low-level circulation and a spiral arrangement of numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rainfall.