Elizabeth City,North carolina's history with tropical systems
Current weather
(br)=brush (ts)=Tropical Storm (bd)=Back Door,meaning coming from over land from opposite coast.Not all names are noted,also storms before 1950 were not named.Not every stat on every storm description is given.

Years within 60 miles
1876-77-78bdts,1879bd,1881bdbr,1892bdts,1885bdbr,1888bd,1889bdbr
1893bd,1893bdbr,1894bd,1897-2ts,1899,1899bdbr,1901,1908br,1910ts,1918ts,1925ts
1928tsbd,1933,1933br,1935bdts,1936br,1942ts,1944br,1944bdts,1953,1955,1955tsbd
1960bdts,1960,1961bdts,1971ts,1972bdts,1984ts,1985br,1986ts(andrew)6 yrs before the name was retired),1992tsbr,1996tsbr,1996bdbr,1998tsbdbr,1999 ,2003,2004bdts,2007tsbd,2008tsbdbr
49 times in 139yrs end of 2009

Names from list above
Barbara,Connie,Ione,Brenda,Donna,Doria,Agnes,Diana,Gloria,Andrew
Danielle,Arthur,Fran,Bonnie,Floyd ,Isabel,Charley,Hanna,

How often this area gets affected?
brushed or hit every 2.84 years

Average years between direct hurricane hits.(usually within 40 miles to include small hurricanes,not including back door hurricanes)
(12h)once every11.58 years

Statistically when this area should be affected next
before the end of 2011
This is just a statistical average & does not mean the area will be affected by that year

Last affected by
2008 Sept 6th T.S Hanna brushes by to the west while moving NE with 50mph winds.

This areas hurricane past
1901 July 11th from the east category 1 winds
1933 a cat 3 hits with a pressure of 28.26 heavy damage
1935 the remnants of the 1935 labor day hurricane that hit the keys causes tonadoes in this area on the way out to sea.
1953 aug 13th hurricane Barbara hits from the south with gusts to 90mph. weather map
1955 a slow moving hurricane connie causes 7 ft tides & destroyes the beaches .Newspaper headline
2003 Sept 18th Hurricane Isabel passes approx 50 miles to the west while moving NNW. Isabel approx 85mph at the passage downed many trees & virtually all of Elizabeth city was without power.Scores of downed trees, snapped power lines and at least one death left a testament to the fury of the storm. And some residents might not see power restored for two weeks, officials said. A 25-year-old woman, Angelique Jones, was killed on Carl Drive, a street in the Cape Colony subdivision, when a tree fell on her Honda Passport at about 1:30 p.m. Five injured by flying glass at evacuation shelter here. Newspaper headline | damage photos | Newspaper article


Text Sources:The Major Hurricanes to affect the Bahamas Wayne Neely.....Hurricane Watch Dr. Bob Sheets & Jack Williams.....Inside the Hurricane Pete Davies.....The Ship & the Storm Jim Carrier.....Lunatic Wind William Price Fox...Sudden Sea R.A Scotti.....Hurricane Almanac Bryan Norcross.....Divine Wind Kerry Emanuel.....Florida's Hurricane History Jay Barnes.....Stormscaping Pamela Crawford.....Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States Rick Scwartz..... Killer Cane Robert Mykle..... Isaac's Storm Erik Larson.....Florida Hurricanes & Tropical Storms John M. Williams & Iver W.Duedall.....Path of destruction John McQuaid & Mark Schleifstein.....Sun sentinel newspaper(microfilm).....Miami Herald newspaper(microfilm).....NOAA research division.....hurricanecity.com (calculations) Jim Williams.....plus many more.............


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