Sunday marked the end of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season during which North Carolina was the only state to have a storm hit the mainland.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the six-month season saw only one hurricane making landfall along the East Coast. That was Arthur, which hit North Carolina’s Outer Banks on July 3 and 4.
State officials said no one died and damage was limited to flooding and some property damage on Ocracoke and Hatteras islands. Part of NC Highway 12 buckled from the churning waves that came ashore and had to be repaired.
The Atlantic saw eight named storms with top winds of 39 mph or higher. Six of those were hurricanes with top winds of 74 mph or higher.
Gerry Bell, lead hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, said a combination of atmospheric conditions acted to suppress the Atlantic hurricane season.
Topics Catastrophe Natural Disasters Hurricane North Carolina
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