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'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 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.

The earliest hurricane to impact the Cape Fear region brushed the coast on June 25, 1945. Hurricane Hazel, the strongest to hit North Carolina, landed in Oak Island on October 15, 1954.

Hazel killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States just south of Wilmington, North Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane; it is the strongest hurricane ever recorded to ...

Fran had Category 3-strength sustained winds of about 115 mph and gusts up to 125 mph when it made landfall, making it the first major storm to hit North Carolina since Hazel.

During hurricane season, some people in central and eastern North Carolina get triggered when meteorologists drop the F-bomb. Three of the worst hurricanes to hit the state in recent memory had ...

During hurricane season, some people in central and eastern North Carolina get triggered when meteorologists drop the F-bomb. Three of the worst hurricanes to hit the state in recent memory had ...