![]() ![]() LATEST INFORMATION FROM RECENT STORM SURVEYS.Ī. NOV 07.CORRECTED FOR.UPDATED STORM SURGE/TIDE SECTION WITH NOV 06.CORRECTED FOR.UPDATED ASOS PRESSURE AND WIND VALUES FOR NOV 04.CORRECTED FOR.NOS TIDE GAUGES SURGE AND STORM TIDE USCG NOV 04.CORRECTED FOR.NOS TIDE GAUGES SURGE AND TIDE VALUES. THIS REPORT INCLUDES EVENTS OCCURRING WHEN WATCHES AND/OR WARNINGSĬOUNTIES .HYDE.BEAUFORT. NOTE: THE DATA SHOWN HERE ARE PRELIMINARY.AND SUBJECT TO UPDATES NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY - NEWPORT NC POST TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT.HURRICANE SANDY The Bounty, a 180-foot sailing ship, is shown submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., Monday, October 29, 2012. As of November 4, there were three Hurricane Sandy-related fatalities in North Carolina.įigure 5. ![]() The search lasted more than 90 hours, covering approximately 12,000 square nautical miles in the Atlantic Ocean. On November 1, the Coast Guard suspended its search for Robin Walbridge, the captain of the Bounty. Another crew member was found hours later but was unresponsive and died later on. As of mid-morning on October 29, the Coast Guard rescued 14. The Coast Guard said the 16 people abandoned ship and got into two lifeboats, wearing survival suits and life jackets. It was taking on water about 90 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras. Bounty (Figure 5), which was built for the 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty. On October 29, the Coast Guard responded to a distress call from the H.M.S. Ocracoke and Highway 12 on Hatteras Island were flooded with up to 2 feet of water, closing part of the highway, while 20 people on a fishing trip were stranded on Portsmouth Island. The large circulation around Hurricane Sandy well east of the Carolinas on October 28, 2012ĭespite being far out to sea, Sandy had a number of impacts on eastern North Carolina. Track of Hurricane then Post-Tropical Storm Sandy, October, 2012.įigure 2. In addition to the strong winds (Figure 3), heavy rain (Figure 4) and coastal flooding, Sandy brought snow to the higher elevations from the Carolinas north into West Virginia and Maryland.įigure 1. Its storm surge hit New York City on October 29, flooding streets, tunnels and subway lines and cutting power in and around the city. Hurricane Sandy affected at least 24 states, from Florida to Maine (Figure 2) and west to Michigan and Wisconsin, with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York. At least 191 people were killed along the path of the storm in seven countries. Preliminary estimates of losses that include business interruption surpass $50 billion, behind only Hurricane Katrina. Sandy is estimated to have caused damage of at least $20 billion. The eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Sandy devastated portions of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States (Figure 1) in late October 2012. Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, as well as the second-costliest Atlantic hurricane in history, only surpassed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ![]()
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