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Coastal Flood — New York (manhattan), NY

Oct 29, 2012

Post Tropical Storm Sandy was the costliest natural disaster in Southeast New York.||Tropical Storm Sandy formed in the Caribbean Sea on October 22. After drifting slowly southwest on October 23, Sandy turned to the north and intensified to a hurricane on October 24, just before making landfall in Jamaica. Hurricane Sandy continued to the north and intensified to a strong category two hurricane before making landfall again in Cuba shortly after Midnight EDT on the 25th. Hurricane Sandy emerged o

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 420465). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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