|
Name
|
Category
|
Maximum Wind
|
NC Deaths
|
NC Damage
|
|
August 1879
|
4
|
168
|
40+
|
NA
|
|
August 1899
|
4
|
140
|
25
|
NA
|
|
Hazel, 1954
|
4
|
150
|
19
|
$136 million
|
|
Donna, 1960
|
4 (3 in NC)
|
120
|
8
|
$25 million
|
|
Hugo, 1989
|
4 (3 in NC)
|
100
|
7
|
$1 billion
|
|
September 1883
|
3
|
100+
|
53
|
NA
|
|
Fran, 1996
|
3
|
115
|
24
|
$5.2 billion
|
|
Floyd, 1999
|
2
|
90
|
25
|
$4.5 billion
|
|
Ivan. 2003
|
3
|
105
|
25
|
$14.2 billion
|
|
Connie, 1955
|
3
|
n/a
|
25
|
NA
|
Selected North Carolina Hurricane Tracks
 Hurricane
Hugo (1989)
Hurricane Hugo began as a tropical wave off
the coast of Africa on September 9, 1989. Moving westward, the storm
turned west-northwest on September 15 as a Category Five (5) hurricane.
Hugo moved through the Leeward Islands and St. Croix as a Category
Four (4) hurricane and then turned northwest through Puerto Rico. On September
22, Hugo made landfall north of Charleston, SC and then moved through
Charlotte, NC, causing extensive damage to western portions of the state.
 Hurricane
Fran (1996)
Beginning as a strong tropical wave off Africa
on August 22, 1996, Hurricane Fran moved west into the Atlantic.
The hurricane then moved westward as a tropical depression and reached hurricane
intensity just before the Leeward Islands. Fran became a Category
Three (3) hurricane over the Bahamas, following Hurricane Eduoard's lead,
but a low over Tennessee pushed Fran to the north into northwest
North Carolina on September 5.
 Hurricane
Floyd (1999)
Like Hugo and Fran before it, Hurricane Floyd began on September 2, 1999,
as a tropical wave off the African coast and moved northwest over
the tropical Atlantic. Becoming a hurricane on the September 10th, it turned
northwest and approached the central Bahama Islands as a Category Four (4) storm. Turning north and west and then east, it traveled to the North
Carolina coast near Cape Fear on September 16, by this time, a Category
Two (2) hurricane.
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