Hurricane Hanna Recap

Hurricane Hanna, the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season`s eighth named storm, formed August 28, 2008, about 355 miles east-northeast of the Leeward Islands. Hanna formed from a tropical disturbance that was drifting across the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Soon after forming into a tropical depression, it was upgraded to a tropical storm. Hanna continues to slowly march westward into the southern Bahamas, where it strengthened into a hurricane on September 1, 2008. Hanna would remain near stationary across the southern and central Bahamas, weakening to a strong tropical storm before beginning a turn to the northwest. Tropical Storm Warnings, along with Tropical Storm Watches and Hurricane Watches were issued from Georgia to Massachusetts as Hanna slowly moved northwestward towards the Southeastern coast of the U.S. The storm made landfall along the border between North and South Carolina on September 6. Up to 8 inches of rain fell across the eastern U.S. as Hanna moved inland, losing tropical characteristics in the early morning hours on September 7. Although Hanna never made landfall in the U.S. as a hurricane, its winds strengthened to 70 mph. The storm produced minimal storm surge effects along the coast, but its high winds and heavy rains produced damage and flash flooding along its path across the Mid-Atlantic and New England. …FULL STORY

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