THIS WEEK MARKS 27 YEARS SINCE HURRICANE HUGO

Hurricane Hugo made landfall on September 21, 1989 in a small town near Charleston, SC called McCleanville.  The storm caused a total of 34 fatalities with 27 of those being in South Carolina.  Hugo caused 10 billion dollars in damage, which at the time made this the most costly storm […]

REMEMBERING HURRICANE FLOYD – “THE 500 YEAR FLOOD”

Hurricane Floyd was the sixth named storm and the third major hurricane of the 1999 hurricane season.  It made landfall near Cape Fear as a category 2 hurricane and caused flooding in some North Carolina rivers to reach there 500 year flood level.  Hurricane Floyd claimed 57 lives and caused […]

STUDYING ALGAE BLOOMS IN THE CHOWAN RIVER

We here at SevereWXWarn took images provided by ESRI & USGS that were taken from a satellite known as LandSat 8 and modified the coloring to better show algae blooms currently in the Chowan River.  We have provided that image below and have pointed out the major algae bloom areas […]

TROPICAL STORM FRED IN ATLANTIC STRENGTHENING EXPECTED

Tropical Storm Fred has just moved off the African coast and is expected to strengthen over the next 5 days.  At this time it is to far away to know if this will be a threat to the United States, but the current models are looking like that is a […]

TROPICAL STORM ERIKA UPDATE FROM SEVERE WX WARN

Tropical Storm Erika is looking more organized and beginning to push west at a faster pace.  Erika’s path is still a little unknown as the models are showing this storm with slightly different paths.  The eastern coast of Florida is likely to see a hurricane of Monday though the intensity […]