Hurricane-force winds could reach the mainland by Thursday evening. The first rain bands could reach the Carolinas and Virginia on Wednesday, forecasters said. ET Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center issued hurricane warnings for portions of the South and North Carolina coasts as the 140-mph Category 4 storm crawled closer to shore. “The time to hope Hurricane Florence away is gone.”Īs of 5 p.m. It’s big and it’s vicious,” North Carolina Gov. East Coast, a massive storm threatening record rains and historic flooding as more than 1 million people flee the anticipated devastation. Hurricane warnings were issued Tuesday as ferocious Hurricane Florence marched relentlessly toward the U.S. The last time that happened was in 1903, a mark now 116 years old.Watch Video: Category 4 Hurricane Florence barrels toward East Coast Trump Administration Drops Obama-Era Water Protection Ruleįor all the storms and floods that have struck since Floyd, including the epic destruction of Sandy in October 2012, none has registered - officially - as a hurricane when they reached the Jersey Shore, Schwartz said on the anniversary.Poll: Trump Gets Some of His Worst Grades on Climate.Thus, Floyd was not officially recorded as a direct hurricane strike in New Jersey." Here's how Schwartz wrote about it in his book, which he co-wrote with fellow meteorologist Jon Nese: "As the eye of Floyd crossed the Delaware Bay and headed toward southern New Jersey, the hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm just before the center passed over Cape May. It wasn't technically a hurricane as its eye crossed the Delaware Bay and hit Cape May. Yet Floyd didn't break one long-standing meteorological barrier for the Jersey Shore. The remnants of Hurricane Floyd that flooded New Jersey, killed four people, caused more than $500 million in damage and ruined thousands of homes and businesses. 'Storms on Steroids': Severe Weather Warnings in 2019 Already Higher than All of 2018 for Philadelphia RegionĪ man surveys his flooded neighborhood in Bound Brook, New Jersey, from his porch in this Sept."All-time flood records were set along the Brandywine, Wissahickon, Perkiomen, Neshaminy and Ridley Creeks and the Christina River." "The rivers and creeks rose rapidly," he said on the 20th anniversary. NBC10 meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz, who covered Floyd for the station and wrote about it in his 2002 book "The Philadelphia Area Weather Book," remembers the storm causing "some of the worst flooding ever recorded." (The record was broken in 2003 during a stationary thunderstorm event.) 16, 1999, and went on to dump the most rain on Philadelphia in a single day in 125 years of record-keeping. Hurricane Floyd arrived in the Delaware Bay on Sept. Well before Hurricane Dorian crept up the East Coast, and more than a decade before Superstorm Sandy would change the Jersey Shore forever, a hurricane left its mark on the Philadelphia region. Yet it still didn't break one record, which stills stands after 116 years, including the epic storms which have struck in recent decades.The storm was deadly, with 14 deaths reported in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
16, 1999, Hurricane Floyd dropped more rainfall in a single day on Philadelphia than in the previous 125 years.
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