{"title":"Extreme rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Florence","authors":"Jeff Callaghan","doi":"10.1016/j.tcrr.2020.07.002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, around 1115 UTC 14 September as a weakening Category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale). Its slow movement through North and South Carolina resulted in extreme rainfall totals and major flooding making it the ninth-most-destructive hurricane to affect the United States. The structure of Florence is examined using microwave data, radiosonde observations and rainfall registrations to identify the processes along with its slow movement which caused the extreme rainfall. Two major processes were identified with initially, intense thunderstorms driven by strong buoyancy with some dynamic uplift, generated such rainfall while following landfall larger scale ascent with winds turned in an anticyclonic direction with height, appeared to be the principal cause of the heavy rainfall.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44442,"journal":{"name":"Tropical Cyclone Research and Review","volume":"9 3","pages":"Pages 172-177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tcrr.2020.07.002","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Tropical Cyclone Research and Review","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2225603220300400","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, around 1115 UTC 14 September as a weakening Category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale). Its slow movement through North and South Carolina resulted in extreme rainfall totals and major flooding making it the ninth-most-destructive hurricane to affect the United States. The structure of Florence is examined using microwave data, radiosonde observations and rainfall registrations to identify the processes along with its slow movement which caused the extreme rainfall. Two major processes were identified with initially, intense thunderstorms driven by strong buoyancy with some dynamic uplift, generated such rainfall while following landfall larger scale ascent with winds turned in an anticyclonic direction with height, appeared to be the principal cause of the heavy rainfall.
期刊介绍：
Tropical Cyclone Research and Review is an international journal focusing on tropical cyclone monitoring, forecasting, and research as well as associated hydrological effects and disaster risk reduction. This journal is edited and published by the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee (TC) and the Shanghai Typhoon Institute of the China Meteorology Administration (STI/CMA). Contributions from all tropical cyclone basins are welcome.
Scope of the journal includes:
• Reviews of tropical cyclones exhibiting unusual characteristics or behavior or resulting in disastrous impacts on Typhoon Committee Members and other regional WMO bodies
• Advances in applied and basic tropical cyclone research or technology to improve tropical cyclone forecasts and warnings
• Basic theoretical studies of tropical cyclones
• Event reports, compelling images, and topic review reports of tropical cyclones
• Impacts, risk assessments, and risk management techniques related to tropical cyclones
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