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the storm spent the next two days producing record-breaking rainfall across eastern North Carolina and a portion of northeastern South Carolina. The slow impact of a flooding disaster resulted in South Carolina feeling the biggest impacts towards the end of September, almost two weeks after landfall.Īccording to, “After the eye crossed Wrightsville Beach, NC at 7:15 a.m. Florence was the eighth-wettest tropical cyclone to hit the mainland United States – and the wettest ever to hit North Carolina. After the rivers crested, the water moved downstream, continuing flood conditions and road closures. The system inundated North Carolina and South Carolina with torrential rain for days. Army Soldiers assigned to the 1-118th Infantry Battalion, South Carolina Army National Guard conduct traffic control points alongside S.C. 14 as a Category 1 hurricane, bringing a massive storm surge and sustained winds of up to 85 mph. Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach (near Wilmington) in North Carolina at 7:15 a.m. 4, fluctuating in intensity and dropping to a tropical storm again before increasing to a Category 4 hurricane on Sept. 1. Initially projected to pose no threat to land, it became the third named hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic season on Sept.
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30, 2018, and was named Tropical Storm Florence on Sept. Hurricane Florence began as a disturbance near the Southern Cabo Verde Islands on Friday, Aug.
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