Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 season. To this day, it's the strongest and only category 4 hurricane to ever hit the North Carolina coast.

Hazel was a Category 4 hurricane when it struck North Carolina, and its winds were estimated to be 125 mph at Wrightsville Beach and 140 mph at Oak Island. The storm was the most powerful ...

Hurricane Hazel's storm surge impacting Morehead City on October 15th, 1954 (Russell James). Hurricane Hazel was one of the most powerful and destructive storms to strike Eastern North Carolina ...

Hurricane Hazel, which hit North Carolina in 1954, was the only Category 4 storm to ever make landfall in the state. Hurricane Florence might join that short list by the end of the week.

That was Hurricane Hazel in 1954. Hurricane Hugo made landfall in South Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane in 1989. Look back at Hazel, Hugo and other historic storms from North Carolina's history ...

When it comes to hurricane intensity in North Carolina, there is one storm by which all are measured- and no, it isn’t Hurricane Floyd. It’s a storm called Hazel. The story of Hurricane Hazel ...

65 years ago Tuesday, Hurricane Hazel was etched in North Carolina lore forever. Hazel began in the Carribean Sea and strengthened to a category 4 storm. It crossed over Haiti and caused massive ...

Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 season. To this day, it's the strongest and only category 4 hurricane to ever hit the North Carolina coast.

Hurricane Hazel made landfall at Long Beach on October 15, 1954. The storm’s arrival in North Carolina occurred on a full moon high tide, maximizing impact of the storm surge on the barrier ...

Vault Visit | Hurricane Hazel hits North Carolina. It was a category four storm when it hit the coast in 1954. To stream WFMY News 2 on your phone, you need the WFMY News 2 app.

On this date in 1954 hurricane Hazel roared onto the East coast. The hurricane made landfall just north of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina as a category 4. It has sustained winds between 131 and 155 ...