Storm #18 (tie): 1955 Hurricane Connie Pressure: 29.10" Also of note: a tropical storm (Tropical Storm "Two") was classified during post-season analysis, making Ernesto the sixth storm of the 2006 season, not the fifth as its name would suggest. At the beaches the storm surge was as high as 3 feet, but flooding from heavy rainfall and minor power outages were the biggest problems.Įrnesto made this list mainly due to the fact the center of the circulation moved so close to the city of Wilmington, allowing the lowest pressure to be measured locally. In Wilmington, Ernesto produced wind gusts to 62 mph and 9.84 inches of rain. The center of Ernesto almost crossed over the city of Wilmington, moving directly across Winnabow, Leland, and Watha before continuing north between Kinston and Goldsboro. The storm then weakened slightly and moved northwestward toward a landfall near Segua, Cuba during the morning of August 28th.Īfter exiting Cuba, Ernesto crossed southern Florida on August 30th and moved north toward a landfall on the eastern end of Oak Island late in the evening on August 31st as a tropical storm with 70 mph winds. Ernesto moved northwestward, briefly attaining hurricane strength while south of Haiti August 27th. It strengthened into a tropical storm on August 25th while about 400 miles south of Puerto Rico. The sixth storm of the 2006 Hurricane Seasonĭate: SeptemLowest Pressure: 29.10 inches of Mercury, 985.4 millibarsĪ tropical wave moving west across the Atlantic was first classified as a tropical depression in the southern Windward Islands on August 24. Storm #18 (tie): 2006 Hurricane Ernesto Pressure: 29.10" Hudgins, James E.: Tropical Cyclones Affecting North Carolina Since 1586, an Historical Perspective That hurricane, also a category 3 at landfall, made landfall just south of Savannah, Georgia on Augand devastated much of the Georgia coastline. Note: this hurricane is sometimes confused with the 1893 Sea Islands Hurricane which occurred nearly two months earlier. In Wilmington, 1.54 inches of rain fell and the 20th lowest barometric pressure on record was measured. A total of 22 lives were lost in North Carolina from this storm" Two children were crushed when a tree fell on a house in Sampson County. Great destruction was reported to forests, crops and property, and to shipping. Damage to the Wilmington waterfront was estimated at $150,000. In the Wilmington area, the tide and overflow of water were reported as the highest known to date, being 16 inches above the high water mark of 1853. NWS Meteorologist James Hudgins found the following information about this storm: " The highest reported wind in North Carolina was 94 mph at Southport. Hurricane force winds were still occurring across portions of Eastern Virginia, Maryland and Delaware as the circulation center moved across eastern West Virginia and into southern Pennsylvania. After making a glancing strike on Abaco Island in the Bahamas during the evening of October 12th, the hurricane turned north and came ashore near McClellanville, SC as a powerful category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph.Īs the hurricane moved north through the eastern Carolinas it only slowly lost strength as the center passed near the towns of Georgetown, Conway, Tabor City and Bladenboro. The wave organized into a tropical storm on September 25th, strengthened into a hurricane during the evening of September 27th, then became a major hurricane early in the morning on October 2nd while nearly 800 miles east of the Windward Islands. The Charleston Hurricane of 1893 was a long-tracked, classic Cape Verde hurricane that developed from a tropical wave that moved off Africa in late September. The ninth storm of the 1893 Hurricane Seasonĭate: OctoLowest Pressure: 29.12 inches of Mercury, 986.1 millibars Storm #20: 1893 "Charleston Hurricane" Pressure: 29.12" Sorted by lowest barometric pressure, here is the list of the 20 strongest storms in Wilmington's history: Since the late 1940s readings have been taken at the Wilmington International Airport prior to that observations were taken from a variety of locations downtown. Official barometric pressure readings in Wilmington began in 1871 and continue through the present day. Most of Wilmington's strongest storms have been tropical systems - 12 of the top 20 in fact. Simply put: the lower the atmospheric pressure, the more powerful a storm is. Meteorologists use barometric pressure as one way to rank the intensity of a low pressure system. National Weather Service, Wilmington, North Carolina Tim Armstrong, Meteorologist & Climate Program Leader Top 20 Storms in Wilmington, North Carolina's History as ranked by lowest barometric pressure
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