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Radar image of Hurricane Connie near North Carolina. August 20, 1950 – Hurricane Able brushes the Outer Banks with light winds and rough waves. [1] September 7, 1950 – Former Hurricane Easy weakens to tropical depression status over Georgia, bringing heavy rainfall to North Carolina which peaks at 9.14 inches (232 mm) in Yancey County. [2]
[6] [9] Newspapers attributed heavy rainfall in the Mid-Atlantic states—which resulted in five deaths—to the hurricane. [24] Further north, the hurricane killed 12 people in New England, and produced a total of $2 million (1950 USD$, 25.3 million 2025 USD) of property damage. [6] Twelve others died in two shipwrecks off the coast of Canada ...
The strongest hurricane to hit the state during the time period was Hurricane Hazel, which struck the state as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale. Hazel was both the costliest and deadliest cyclone during the period, causing over $1 billion in damage (2020 USD) and 19 deaths. [ 14 ]
The list of North Carolina hurricanes between 1900 and 1949 encompasses 75 tropical cyclones or their remnants that affected the U.S. state of North Carolina. Collectively, cyclones in North Carolina during that time period resulted in 53 total fatalities, as well as about $328 million in damage in 2008 USD .
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Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane that first made landfall in Texas in 2017 before shifting east, caused nearly $150 billion in damages. It was the costliest disaster to hit North Carolina ...
The counties hardest hit by Hurricane Helene were also those with the lowest levels of flood insurance protection. Map: Less than 1% of residences covered by flood insurance in hard-hit North Carolina
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 ...