Hurricane Floyd formed in Western Africa in September 1999 and became a tropical storm on September 8th, reaching hurricane strength on September 10th with winds up to 156 mph. It caused widespread flooding and 57 deaths along the East Coast from South Carolina to Maine as it dropped 4 to 12 inches of rain. By the time it reached New Jersey it had weakened to a tropical storm and dissipated as an extratropical storm off the coast of Maine on September 17th.

1. Hurricane Floyd
By Ashley Lee and Georgia Franklin

2. Year it occurred, formation, dissipation
It formed on September It dissipated on
2, 1999 from Western September 17th on the
Africa. It became coast of Maine.
tropical storm Floyd on In Florida, the hurricane
September 8th. It reached winds up to
became a hurricane at 8 156 mph winds and it
a.m. on September 10th. was a category 4 on the
saffir-simpson scale.

3. Fatalities, Damaged incurred
 Most of the damage  This was the total
was from flood waters. rainfall hurricane Floyd
 4 to 12 inches of water produced.
fell in South Carolina,  There was 57 deaths or
North Carolina, Virginia, fatalities from hurricane
Maryland, Delaware, Floyd.
Pennsylvania, New  Most of the deaths
Jersey, and New York. were due from
drowning.

4. Areas affected, hurricane category
 It hit South Carolina, • Near Cape Fear, North
North Carolina, Virginia, Carolina it became a
Maryland, Delaware, category 2. By the time
Pennsylvania, New it reached New Jersey, it
Jersey, and New York. was a tropical storm.
• When it hit Maine it
was extratropical, which
means it wasn’t a storm
or hurricane.

5. Some Interesting facts…
• A few weeks before Hurricane Floyd hit,
Hurricane Dennis Hit.

6. Video :]
• http://abclocal.go.com/
wtvd/video?id=701649
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7. Sites.
• http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nwsfo/storage/cases/
19990915/
• http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nwsfo/storage/cases/
19990915/floyd.ir.jpg
• http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nwsfo/storage/cases/
19990915/floyd.vis.jpg
• http://www.dailypress.com/news/weather/dp
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