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Deadly Hurricane Florence a raging force as it hit North Carolina in Sept. 2018
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Hurricane Florence made landfall on the morning of Sept. 14, 2018, in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
Making landfall as a large, slow-moving category one storm with maximum sustained winds near 90 mph, it spent the next two days producing record-breaking rainfall across portions of eastern North Carolina.
Over 30 inches of rain were measured in a few locations, exceeding the highest single-storm rainfall amounts ever seen in this portion of the state. Record river flooding occurred in the following days, destroying roads and damaging thousands of homes and businesses. The USGS reported at least nine river gauges reported floods above their 1-in-500-year expected return intervals. An estimated 74,563 structures flooded, and over 5,000 people needed to be rescued.
Making landfall as a large, slow-moving category one storm with maximum sustained winds near 90 mph, it spent the next two days producing record-breaking rainfall across portions of eastern North Carolina.
Over 30 inches of rain were measured in a few locations, exceeding the highest single-storm rainfall amounts ever seen in this portion of the state. Record river flooding occurred in the following days, destroying roads and damaging thousands of homes and businesses. The USGS reported at least nine river gauges reported floods above their 1-in-500-year expected return intervals. An estimated 74,563 structures flooded, and over 5,000 people needed to be rescued.
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