South Carolinians also remember Hurricane Hugo 14 years ago

[Stormsfury]

Hugo was a once powerful Cat 5 which impacted portions of the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico as a strong Cat 3 - 4 storm. Afterwards, Hugo headed towards the Southeast Coast and made landfall just NE of Charleston, SC on midnight, Sept. 21st, 1989 ... some more information can be found here on the link below.

http://www.stormsfury1.com/Weather/Hugo.html

More information on Hugo can be found here

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/cohab/hurri ... o/hugo.htm

[Guest]

SF, they are doing a special on Hurricane Hugo: 14 years later Monday at 7 pm. That should be interesting.

[Stormsfury]

SF, they are doing a special on Hurricane Hugo: 14 years later Monday at 7 pm. That should be interesting.

Who's doing the special?

SF

[charleston_hugo_veteran]

Hugo is NOT something I would like to watch over...thank you, anyway!

[Stormsfury]

Added Satellite and Radar animations of Hugo.

SF

[Pileus]

Thanks to an upper Low over the Gulf states to the west of Hugo and a
huge Atlantic High to the east of the storm, a chimney effect was
produced that enabled Hugo to sustain hurricane force winds all the way
to Charlotte.

[JtSmarts]

I remember we had a small hole in our apartment roof here in Columbia, I also remember trash cans and tree limbs thrown everywhere.

[Stormsfury]

http://www.stormsfury1.com/Weather/Trop ... s/1989.txt

Notice how fast Hugo was moving at the time of landfall and shortly afterwards... 24 to 29 mph by the time it passed CLT. 20 MPH+ movement right past CHS.

SF

[HuffWx]

Nice report SF....


I remember watching Jimmy Cantore that night and his energy level was on 110! I was disapointed it took the more western track rather then the Northern route. I lived just south of Philly and school was hyped to be closed...but it never did.

Great work!

Huff