Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence was a powerful Cape Verde Hurricane that devastated portions of the Southeastern United States. Hurricane Florence was the 6th storm of the 2018 Hurricane Season, which started off slowly and became active around September 10th, the traditional peak of hurricane season.

The storm formed for a tropical wave that had moved off the coast of Africa. In a 24-hour period, Florence organized and strengthened from a Category 1 into a Category 4 hurricane. The storm took an unusual path across the Atlantic, becoming the first storm in recorded history that made a United States landfall from that area of origination. All of the previous storms turned out to sea, never threatening land. The storm went through cycles of weakening and re-intensifying as it crossed the Atlantic before taking aim at the United States coastline.

On September 14th, Hurricane Florence made its official landfall south of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina as a Category 1 Hurricane. The storm stalled along the North Carolina coast for nearly 24-hours before it took an uncharacteristic turn to the southwest and then moved slowly across South Carolina for the next

This lesson will explore the hazards associated with Hurricane Florence and the impacts the storm had in North Carolina and South Carolina.