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Hurricane Florence

About

Hurricane Florence was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde hurricane, as well as the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the Carolinas and the ninth-wettest tropical cyclone to affect the contiguous United States. The sixth named storm, third hurricane, and the first major hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, Florence originated from a strong tropical wave that emerged off the west coast of Africa on August 30, 2018. By the evening of September 13, Florence had been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane, though the storm began to stall as it neared the Carolina coastline. Early the next day on September 14, Florence made landfall just south of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, and weakened further as it slowly moved inland. With the threat of a major impact in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States becoming evident by September 7, the governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Maryland, and the mayor of Washington, D.C. declared a state of emergency. On September 10 and September 11, the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia all issued mandatory evacuation orders for some of their coastal communities, as it was expected that emergency management personnel would be unable to reach people in those areas once the storm arrived.

 

 

PHOTOS
General Commander of the Chilean Marine Corps Rear Admiral Jorge Keitel Villagrán visits the U.S. Marines and partners at the expeditionary advanced base during Exercise UNITAS 2024
U.S. Marine Corps Col. Ryan Allen (center left), commanding officer of Marine Air Control Group 48, Sgt. Melissa Rivas Casanova (center right), the MACG-48 Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge, and Sgt. Gianny Bizarretty (Left), tactical air defense controller with Marine Air Control Squadron 24, speak with Chilean Marine Col. Francisco Cabezon Gonzalez about the Marine Corps Ground and Air Task Oriented Radar system at the Expeditionary Advanced Base North on Puerto Adlea, Chile, Sept. 6, 2024. They discuss how it will be used in the Amphibious Raid at Puerto Aldea, Chile. The GATOR is being used for Marines to train and to perform counter fires and air defense during the amphibious raid taking place for UNITAS LXV. UNITAS focuses on strengthening our existing regional partnerships and encouraging the establishment of new relationships through the exchange of maritime mission-focused knowledge and expertise. (U. S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

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