Hurricane Florence, Makes Landfall: Friday Update, September 14, 2018 - 2 and 3 | Eastern NC Now

    This is a continued series of posts explaining in detail the known whereabouts of Hurricane Florence, its presumed direction, and an accounting of its probable impact.

Hurricane Florence makes landfall between Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach as a Category 1 hurricane, in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, and plows through Brunswick County, NC and then into Horry County, SC as a strong Tropical Storm. The initial landfall was about 4 miles south of where the storm was initially projected to hit, shown in this first report on Hurricane Florence on BCN.

    Hurricane Florence once a devastating Category 4 storm, and a Category 2 storm as it raked much of the coast of entire eastern North Carolina just a few hours earlier is now a tropical storm making its way through northeastern to central South Carolina. Florence is projected to head west at 5 miles per hour now well south of the North Carolina boundary, and then north up through the southern Blue Ridge Mountains and Smoky Mountains. The long true path of this well discussed storm, somewhat of a meteorological history, can be found as posts archived here for current and future reference.

    Please use these resources: 1) Current updates from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration); 2) current digital map and projected path of storm(s) - in addition to the mapped information below to know Hurricane Florence's most current course, it's possible impact, and to plan for what become a life changing event - a powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane.

Below: This map of Hurricane Florence suggests the direction, impact point, and estimated time of arrival, as of Friday, 091418 at 5:00 pm.

Below: This map of Hurricane Florence suggests the direction, and estimated time of the arrival of the tropical storm force winds within the impacted area, as of Friday, 091418 at 5:00 pm.


    Six Hours Later Below: This map of Hurricane Florence suggests the direction, impact point, and estimated time of arrival, as of Friday, 091418 at 11:00 pm.

Below: This map of Hurricane Florence suggests the direction, and estimated time of the arrival of the tropical storm force winds within the impacted area, as of Friday, 091418 at 11:00 pm.

Below: This map of Hurricane Florence suggests the direction, and probability of the arrival of the tropical storm force winds within the impacted area, as of Friday, 091418 at 11:00 pm.