![]() The radar loop shows the scattered showers and thunderstorms that On 06 October and runs through 1148 UTC 09 October or 748 AM EDT The animation begins at 2358 UTC 06 October or 758 PM EDT The animation below is the base reflectivity regional radar compositeĪcross the Southeast during the time which Hurricane Matthew impacted National Weather Service Charleston, SC Hurricane Matthew Information National Weather Service Newport, NC Hurricane Matthew Information National Weather Service Wilmington, NC Hurricane Matthew Information Officially retired from the list of Atlantic tropical cyclone names.Īdditional details are available from the following National Weather Service Offices. Due to the tremendousĭamage and the number of injuries and deaths across the Caribbean and Southeastern U.S., Merging with a frontal system on 10 October east of Cape Hatteras, NC. Moved east-northeastward and lost its tropical characteristics by 1200 UTC 9 October before The center of the hurricane moved back offshore of the coast of South Carolina byġ000 UTC, and remained just offshore of the coast of North Carolina early on 9 October. To the coast of South Carolina, making landfall around 1500 UTC 8 October just south of McClellanville, The now category 1 hurricane took a track nearly parallel Trough eroded the subtropical ridge further, causing the category 2 hurricane to make a sharp turn Hurricane Matthew moved northward around the western periphery of a subtropical ridge early onĨ October, remaining about 50 miles offshore of the Georgia coast. Matthew weakened to a category 3 hurricane around 0600 UTC 7 October about 35 milesĮast of Vero Beach, FL, and became a category 2 hurricane by 0000 UTC 8 October about 50 milesĮast-northeast of Jacksonville Beach, FL. Ridge to the north and east of Matthew, allowing the hurricane to turn toward the north-northwest Grand Bahama Island around 0000 UTC 07 October as category 4 hurricane.Ī broad, eastward-moving mid-latitude trough located over the central U.S gradually eroded the Matthew’s intensity fluctuated betweenĬategory 3 and 4 winds as it tracked northwest across the Bahamas with the storm making a landfall on Then making another landfall in eastern Cuba early on 5 October. Landfall on the Tiburon Peninsula early on 4 October, before moving through the Windward Passage and Matthew weakened slightly and its intensity fluctuated as it turned north toward Haiti. Matthew reachedĬategory 5 intensity at 0000 UTC 01 October and peaked with maximum sustained winds of 165 MPH or 145 kts. Increasing 85 MPH (75 kts) between 0000 UTC 30 September and 0000 UTC 01 October. Matthew went through a period of rapid intensification with wind speeds The Caribbean Sea, the tropical cyclone gradually strengthened into a hurricane north of Venezuela andĬolombia by 1800 UTC 29 September. As Matthew moved over the deep, warm waters of The area of low pressure matured and Tropical Storm Matthewĭeveloped near Barbados around 1200 UTC on 28 September. To develop a closed, low-level circulation. The system moved quickly west at fairly low latitude for several days and struggled Hurricane Matthew can be traced back to a strong tropical wave that moved off the African coast early A CoCoRaHS observer near Elizabethtown reported 18.38 inches of rain while a CoCoRaHS observer near Hope Mills reported a rain total of 17.00 inches. The Neuse River at Smithfield and Goldsboro, as well as the Little River at Manchester near Fayetteville, reached all-time high crests, exceeding their peaks from Hurricane Floyd. More than 1.6 million customers lost power across North Carolina during Hurricane Matthew. The NC State Climate office estimates that Matthew is the 4th-costliest and 5th-deadliest North Carolina tropical cyclone on record. Emergency management officials have estimated the damage in NC from the storm exceeded $1.5 billion. A total of 29 deaths in North Carolina can be attributed to the storm, most due to drowning in freshwater flooding. Hurricane Matthew, October 2016 Event Summary ![]()
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