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Everyone who went through Hurricane Hugo has a story—a memory as dramatic and unforgettable as the storm itself. Hugo left us with boats on land, houses in water, and fish in places where fish aren’t supposed to be. People heard roaring winds that sounded like freight trains and watched rising waters float cars and buildings like rubber ducks in a tub. For some, these images are as ...
Jul 9, 1999 · The Tropical Prediction Center's main page on Hurricane Hugo of 1989
Sep 16, 2014 · Hurricane Hugo was one of the strongest hurricanes in South Carolina's history, and was at the time the most costly hurricane ever in the Atlantic Ocean. Hugo's destruction wasn't limited to just South Carolina; Hugo also devastated the Caribbean Islands of Guadeloupe, St. Croix, and Puerto Rico, and even seven hours after its final landfall still produced hurricane-force winds across the ...
Hurricane Hugo - September 1989. The origin of Hugo was detected on satellite imagery on the 9th of September when a cluster of thunderstorms moved. off the coast of Africa. It developed into a tropical depression to the southeast of the Cape Verde Islands the following. day, then moved westward near 20 mph across the tropical Atlantic Ocean ...
Hurricane Hugo, a Category 4 hurricane at landfall, was a classic Cape Verde-type hurricane that devastated the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and South and North Carolina. Developing from a cluster of thunderstorms off the coast of Africa on September 9, 1989, Hugo steadily intensified into a tropical depression (southeast of the Cape Verde ...
Hurricane Hugo, a Category 4 hurricane at landfall, was a classic Cape Verde-type hurricane that devastated the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and South and North Carolina. Developing from a cluster of thunderstorms off the coast of Africa on September 9, 1989, Hugo steadily intensified into a tropical depression (southeast of the Cape Verde ...
Just after midnight on Sept. 22, Hugo made landfall as a Category 4 storm in Sullivan's Island with 140 mph winds and a 12-foot storm surge. More than 250,000 evacuated the coast, according to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Hugo made landfall at high tide on Sullivan's Island, producing the highest storm tides ever recorded ...
