Hurricane Florence - September 1953
- ️David Roth
A tropical wave crossed the Caribbean Sea from September 21st through
23rd. The system organized
southeast of Jamaica, becoming a hurricane as it moved through the
Yucatan Channel on the 24th. Florence
intensified into a major hurricane on the 25th, before cooler air and
cool waters in the northern Gulf of Mexico
led to a weakening trend. The system moved ashore the Florida
panhandle as a minor hurricane between Fort
Walton Beach and Panama City Beach, Florida before becoming an
extratropical cyclone, which sped east-
northeast out to sea.
The graphics below show the storm total rainfall for Florence.
The maximum occurred near and to the left
of its track, due to rainfall which fell ahead of the system along a
frontal boundary. Rainfall information
was
obtained from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North
Carolina.