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Tropical Major Hurricane Florence

The southwestern piedmont including the Charlotte area become completely inundated by hurricane force wind gusts & they extend up into the Triad area on this Euro run. Fact of the matter is even if you're a few hundred miles inland from where this makes landfall, severe wind damage could easily impact areas like Columbia, Macon, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, & Greensboro aside from flooding & tornadoes, etc. Make sure if Florence heads your way that you're prepared w/ 1-2 weeks of food, water, & other necessary supplies because this storm won't be playing around. Still some questions to sort out for the moment but I think it's becoming likely that Florence will pass at least very close to or make landfall in NC, SC, GA, & FL.
 
What are the wind speeds when it makes landfall? (EURO)

Winds well in excess of hurricane force even thru Winston-Salem & Greensboro. Charlotte gets up to about 65 KTS this run, really only need to get to 45-50 KT in gusts to do serious damage, and even less for saturated ground. Severe t'storm warnings that produce widespread wind damage on a regular basis are only typically in this range, 65-70 KT gusts take things to a whole new level & do considerably more damage.

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Borderline Cat4. Prob downgraded to a Cat3 once half of the eyewall crosses over the coast. My dad told me stories of Hugo. Said they were working in Santee which is well inland. They left for a few days until Hugo pushed through and when they came back he said it was unrecognizable. He couldn’t believe it. These things can do serious damage WELL inland
 
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South trend
 
You can easily see the early biurification of EPS members with stronger members early on gaining more latitude later and affecting mainly the mid-Atlantic or eastern NC. The members that take more time for Florence to develop constitute the overwhelming majority of the southern cluster that hits north FL, GA, and portions of south-central SC. We'll have to give this a few more days to see which cluster is more likely to verify although we've been progressively trending towards the southern cluster
 
You can easily see the early biurification of EPS members with stronger members early on gaining more latitude later and affecting mainly the mid-Atlantic or eastern NC. The members that take more time for Florence to develop constitute the overwhelming majority of the southern cluster that hits north FL, GA, and portions of south-central SC. We'll have to give this a few more days to see which cluster is more likely to verify although we've been progressively trending towards the southern cluster
 
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