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Oct 7, 2021 · On October 10, the floods from Matthew quickly eclipsed that peak, hitting 32.19 feet. At least 17 dam failures were noted in North Carolina after Matthew, according to the News & Observer, and 13 of those were in the Cape Fear basin, urged along by that antecedent rainfall a week before the hurricane hit.
Oct 8, 2016 · October 7-8, 2016. Hurricane Matthew was the most powerful storm of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season, and made its fourth and final landfall near McClellanville, South Carolina as a category 1 hurricane late in the morning of October 8th. Although gusts above hurricane force were reported along the Carolina coast, Matthew will be remembered ...
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- Hurricane Track and Intensity Don’T Tell The Full Story
- Inland and Urban Flooding Demands More Attention
- Our Infrastructure Was Due For An Upgrade
- Flooding on Farms Can Turn Feasts to Famines
- Matthew Was A Sign of Storms to Come
As Matthew churned northward across the Bahamas at Category-4 strength, some model forecasts showed the storm looping out to sea before doubling back toward the Southeast coastline. Ultimately it avoided such an unusual path. But its actual track and evolution still complicated the National Weather Service’s messaging efforts. As storm behavior cha...
On September 29, 2016, as Matthew had just reached hurricane strength 1,500 miles to our south, a long-lived thunderstorm dropped up to 10.5 inches of rain over Cumberland County. That deluge caused the Cape Fear River and its branches to surge, with excess water breaching the river banks and cascading into downtown Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, and su...
Some of the most unbelievable scenes during Matthew were stretches of major highways and interstates completely under water, effectively turned into new river branches by the overwhelming flood waters. Many local roads also became impassable. The scale of Matthew’s infrastructure impacts presented a major response and recovery challenge for the Nor...
Hurricanes can be a blessing and a curse for North Carolina’s agricultural industry. In some areas, rainfall from tropical systems makes up nearly a fifth of the average warm-season precipitation. However, years without sufficient moisture can lead to punishing droughts that destroy crops. But farming also suffers when a season’s worth of rain fall...
The wait for Matthew’s meteorological successor didn’t take 500 years, 50 years, or even 17 years. Only two years later, Florence dumped more than twice the rain seen with Matthew and broke the record as the worst flood event in our state’s history. Its estimated $17 billion in damage was more than triple Matthew’s $4.8 billion bill. That Floyd, Ma...
Jun 14, 2018 · The passage of Hurricane Matthew across the central and eastern regions of North Carolina and South Carolina during October 7–9, 2016, resulted in heavy rainfall that caused major flooding in parts of the eastern Piedmont in North Carolina and coastal regions of both States.
One Year Later: North Carolina’s Recovery from Hurricane Matthew Storm Overview Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina on October 8-9, 2016, causing an estimated $4.8 billion in damage across half of North Carolina’s 100 counties. The storm brought up to 18 inches of rain in a three-day period; setting rainfall records in 17 counties. Matthew ...
Oct 9, 2016 · Updated 9:50 a.m. Sunday, October 9, 2016. Hurricane Matthew dropped historic amounts of rainfall on North Carolina, from the coast to the Triangle and points east, causing widespread flooding and ...
