2018 Hurricane Florence
Event Date :
09-14-2018
Location :
North Carolina, USA
Report Date :
04-24-2019
Event Category:
Hurricane
Report Number:
GEER-063
DOI:
doi:10.18118/G6SM19
Event Latitude:
34.213810
Event Longitude:
-77.805527
Team:
| Lee Wooten |
Collaborators:
Brian Anderson, Gokhan Inci, Navid Jafari, Jody Kuhne, Brina Montoya, Nadarajah Ravichandran, Timothy Stark, Md Ahsanuzzama, Jinung Do, Dan Jackson, Rowshon Jadid, Fangzhou Liu, and Long Vo
Summary:
For four days, between Thursday and Sunday, September 13-16, 2018, Hurricane Florence made a slow progression from offshore across the eastern part of North and South Carolina. Like 2017’s Hurricane Harvey in Texas, the lingering storm dumped massive amounts of rain on the Carolinas and caused major floods in the riverways along its track. Rainfall totals of up to 34 inches were measured during the storm. Severe flooding occurred along tributaries and the rivers of the major drainage basins of the Neuse, Cape Fear, Northeast Cape Fear, Lumber, Little Pee Dee, and Pee Dee Rivers. The GEER Florence teams deployed about one week after the hurricane left the area; the group split into two initial teams, a west and an east team, to cover more area and to take advantage of the direction from which each group’s members deployed. In their report, the GEER team describes observations and background about the storm, the resulting hydrology, and the geotechnical aspects of the storm impacts on numerous failed and overtopped dams, a levee, transportation facilities (bridges, roads, railroads), coastal/waterfront, and a large riverfront slope movement.
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| File Title | File Version | File Date | File Type |
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| Full Report | Version 1 | 04-24-2019 |
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| Full Report | Version 2 | 06-01-2019 |
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The work of the GEER Association, in general, is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation through the Geotechnical Engineering Program under Grant No. CMMI-1266418. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. The GEER Association is made possible by the vision and support of the NSF Geotechnical Engineering Program Directors: Dr. Richard Fragaszy and the late Dr. Cliff Astill. GEER members also donate their time, talent, and resources to collect time-sensitive field observations of the effects of extreme events.
