Hurricanes

Hurricanes Hurricane Fran slammed into North Carolina’s southern coast on September 5, 1996, with sustained winds of approximately 115 MPH and gusts as high as 125 MPH. Just prior to landfall to Fran, a small portion of north western Carolina, Bat Cave, Chimney Rock, and Lake Lure areas received up to 11 inches of rain in a three hour period. The rains were the results with about 70 homes and businesses destroyed or damaged. Fran caused not only damage to the east coast but also to the western part of North Carolina. Fran was a Cape Verde hurricane that moved across the Atlantic during the peak of the hurricane season. It make landfall on the North Carolina coast as a category three hurricane, resulting in significant storm surge flooding on the North Carolina coast, widespread wind damage over North Carolina and Virginia and extensive flooding from the Carolinas to Pennsylvania. Hurricane Fran formed a tropical wave that emerged from the west coast of Africa on the twenty second of August. The tropical depression moved westward for the next few days. It became a tropical storm Fran August 27th located about 9000 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. Fran was moving northward when north, hurricane, carolina, fran, mph, hazel, , winds, storm, over, coast, virginia, state, dollars, damage, tropical, reported, estimated, property, moved, made, landfall, homes, great, eastern, beach, about, 1954, year, trees, tide, three, part, northward, new, million