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Flood — Prince William, VA

Oct 11, 2018

After Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph and a minimum central pressure of 919 mb on Wednesday October 10th, it weakened to a tropical storm as it tracked northeastward through Georgia and South Carolina. The tropical storm then tracked across North Carolina and southeast Virginia Thursday and Thursday night, October 11th, emerging back into the Atlantic Ocean early Friday morning, October 12th. Ahead of the tropical storm, the stro

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 790456). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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