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Hurricane Bob. Hurricane Bob was the first of six hurricanes to strike the United States during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season. The second tropical storm and first hurricane of the year, Bob developed from a tropical wave on July 21 in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Bob began moving east, making landfall southwestern Florida as a weak tropical ...
Hurricane Matthew. Hurricane Matthew was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone which caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, as well as widespread devastation in the southeastern United States. The deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Stan in 2005, and the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007 ...
South Carolina's climate is changing. Most of the state has warmed by one-half to one degree Fahrenheit (300-600 m°C) in the last century, and the sea is rising about one to one-and-a-half inches (2.5-3.8 cm) every decade. Higher water levels are eroding beaches, submerging low lands, and exacerbating coastal flooding.
Hurricane Hugo (1989): This storm is possibly Myrtle Beach’s most notorious. It was one of the strongest in South Carolina’s history and at the time was the costliest hurricane ever in the ...
The last time the Myrtle Beach area saw snow for Christmas was on Dec. 24, 1989, when 14 inches of snowfall was reported, according to NWS records. Since that time, most of the area’s coldest ...
The 2004 Atlantic hurricane season was a very deadly, destructive, and active Atlantic hurricane season, with over 3,200 deaths and more than $61 billion (2004 USD, $95.77 billion 2022 USD) in damage. [nb 1] More than half of the 16 tropical cyclones brushed or struck the United States. Due to the development of a Modoki El Niño – a rare ...
The strongest storm to make landfall in the state since Hurricane Hugo in 1989, [86] Hurricane Charley struck near Cape Romain, South Carolina as an 80 mph (130 km/h) hurricane, moved offshore briefly, and made its final landfall near North Myrtle Beach as a minimal hurricane with winds of 75 mph (121 km/h) [4] and gusts of 60 mph (97 km/h).
Hurricane Isaias was a Category 1 hurricane in August 2020. Storm surges during Isaias flooded the coastline. In North Myrtle Beach, waters were a foot deep, and many homes in low-lying areas were ...