Hurricane Florence was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that caused severe and extensive damage in the Carolinas in September 2018. It was primarily a result of freshwater flooding. Florence dropped a total of 35.93 inches of rain in Elizabethtown, North Carolina.
It was the wettest tropical cyclone recorded in North Carolina. Florence generated from a strong tropical wave that appeared off the West Coast of Africa in August 2018. It was the first North Atlantic hurricane to produce force winds on the island of Bermuda since hurricane Fabian in September 2003.
