Hurricane Florence (2000)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 10, 2000 to September 17, 2000

Peak strength

Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)

Lowest pressure

985 mb (29.09 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 123 km (76 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

8.5

Fastest the center moved

34 kt (39 mph)

Identifier

AL102000

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.

Deaths

3 (3 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

0

Property damage

none recorded

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

1 rip current.

From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.

Large swell waves from distant Hurricane Florence generated rip currents along Pleasure Island Beaches. Deaths by drowning occurred at 1:30 and 2:30 PM EDT at Kure Beach, and at 3 PM EDTat Carolina Beach.

New Hanover, North Carolina · Rip Current · Sep 13, 17:30 UTC

• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Depression25 kt · 1008 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Depression30 kt · 1008 mb
• Hurricane AlbertoNorth Atlantic · 2000Cat 3110 kt · 950 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Depression30 kt · 1009 mb
• Tropical Storm BerylNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Storm45 kt · 1007 mb
• Tropical Storm ChrisNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Storm35 kt · 1008 mb
• Hurricane DebbyNorth Atlantic · 2000Cat 175 kt · 991 mb
• Tropical Storm ErnestoNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Storm35 kt · 1008 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Depression30 kt · 1008 mb
• Hurricane GordonNorth Atlantic · 2000 · 26 deaths · $11 millionCat 170 kt · 981 mb
• Tropical Storm HeleneNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Storm60 kt · 986 mb
• Hurricane IsaacNorth Atlantic · 2000Cat 4120 kt · 943 mb
• Hurricane JoyceNorth Atlantic · 2000Cat 180 kt · 975 mb
• Hurricane KeithNorth Atlantic · 2000Cat 4120 kt · 939 mb
• Tropical Storm LeslieNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Storm60 kt · 973 mb
• Hurricane MichaelNorth Atlantic · 2000Cat 285 kt · 965 mb
• Tropical Storm NadineNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Storm50 kt · 999 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 2000Tropical Storm55 kt · 976 mb

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live
• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Florence