Hurricane Floyd

On September 15, 1999, Hurricane Floyd struck North Carolina. Among 252 families attending an ambulatory pediatric clinic that experienced major flooding, 8% had children who were forced to change schools because of the flood (Curry, Larsen, Mansfield,... 

Centers of immigration are arising in previously unimaginable places. Disaster relief staff sent to North Carolina in 1999 after Hurricane Floyd were astonished... 

FIGURE 17 Visible imagery from the GOES satellite while Hurricane Floyd was still over the Bahama region. 

Hurricane Floyd (Figs. 17 and 18) in 1999 caused extensive damage in North (Carolina. Because its track was along the southeast coast of the United State, the exact landfall position was a challenge to forecast. With the aid of hourly water vapor imagery from the GOES satellite, improvements in earlier warnings can be made. 

FIGURE 18 V ter vapor imagery at the same time as the visible shown in Fig. 17. Note that the tongue of moisture (or the water vapor plume) extended northeastward over North Carolina. The hurricane track appears to follow this vapor plume. Note also that the vapor front which was located west of the vapor plume acts as a blocker to prohibit possible landfall of Floyd over Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. 

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