Hurricane Matthew produced heavy rainfall which led to serious flooding in South Carolina and North Carolina on Saturday.\u00a0 The total rainfall in some locations exceeded 10 inches (25 cm) in numerous locations in those two states.\u00a0 Heavy prolonged rain caused creeks and rivers to rapidly rise and flood.<\/p>\n
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) still classified Hurricane Matthew as a hurricane in its 11:00 p.m. EDT advisory.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on the center of Hurricane Matthew was located at latitude 34.1\u00b0N and longitude 76.5\u00b0W which put it about 35 miles (55 km) south of Cape Lookout, North Carolina.\u00a0 Matthew was moving toward the east-northeast at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 982 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Little River Inlet to Surf City, North Carolina.\u00a0 A Hurricane Watch has been issued for the portion of the coast from Surf City to Duck, North Carolina including Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Surf City to Duck, North Carolina including Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.<\/p>\n
According to NHC the center of Hurricane Matthew made an official landfall near Cape Romain southeast of McClellanville, South Carolina at 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday.\u00a0 Since that time the center of Hurricane Matthew has moved back out over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 New bands of showers are forming closer to the center south of the coast of North Carolina.\u00a0 The winds to hurricane force are occurring over a small area on the southwestern side of Hurricane Matthew.<\/p>\n
Easterly winds blowing around the north side of Hurricane Matthew converged with northerly winds blowing along a cold front to generate a broad area of rising motion.\u00a0 The rising motion and the existing rainbands of the hurricane combined to produce very heavy rain over South Carolina and the southeastern half of North Carolina.\u00a0 The area of heavy rain spread into southeastern Virginia around Norfolk on Saturday night.\u00a0 The prolonged heavy rainfall caused the water in creeks and rivers to rise very quickly.\u00a0 Serious flooding was occurring in parts of South Carolina and North Carolina.\u00a0 Numerous roads were closed because of flooding in those two states.<\/p>\n
Along the coast of North Carolina southeasterly winds were blowing water toward the coast and Hurricane Matthew was still generating storm surges.\u00a0 When Matthew moves east of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the wind will change direction and it will blow from the northwest.\u00a0 Those northwesterly winds will push water in Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds onto the western sides of the Outer Banks.\u00a0 Storms surges caused by Hurricane Matthew caused varying amounts of damage from Florida to North Carolina.\u00a0 The most destructive storm surges appear to have been near Jacksonville Beach, Florida, around the barrier islands of Georgia and South Carolina.\u00a0 However, a full damage assessment has not been made of those locations at this time.<\/p>\n
Even though the center of Hurricane Matthew stayed over the Atlantic Ocean most of the time, gusty winds caused power outages from Florida to North Carolina.\u00a0 As the heavy rain saturated the ground, gusts of winds toppled trees which fell onto power lines.\u00a0 More power outages are likely in eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia as more trees are uprooted.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Matthew will slowly move out to sea on Sunday.\u00a0 Matthew appears to be making a transition to an extratropical cyclone.\u00a0 During that transition the wind field is likely to expand.\u00a0 So, conditions should improve slowly over North Carolina and Virginia on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Matthew produced heavy rainfall which led to serious flooding in South Carolina and North Carolina on Saturday.\u00a0 The total rainfall in some locations exceeded 10 inches (25 cm) in numerous locations in those two states.\u00a0 Heavy prolonged rain caused creeks and rivers to rapidly rise and flood. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) still classified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[540,541,51,98,542,100,99,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}