Hurricane Florence, Mammoth Storm, Projected to Pound North /South Carolina: Wednesday Update, September 12, 2018 - 3 | Eastern North Carolina Now

    This is a continued series of posts explaining in detail the known whereabouts of Hurricane Florence, its presumed direction, and an accounting of its probable impact.

Slow, but life-threatening changes in the projected path of Hurricane Florence will affect a wide swath of coastal residents in North and South Carolina, currently making landfall as a major hurricane, in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, skirting Brunswick County, NC and then Horry County, SC as a Cat 1 hurricane, about 22 miles south of where the storm was initially projected to hit, shown in this first report on Hurricane Florence on BCN.

    Currently, Hurricane Florence is quickly barreling toward shore at about 15 miles per hour, getting closer, and, regardless of which direction it is modeled to proceed, it will change and change again, therefore, no one will probably know its true direction, or possible impact point until soon before landfall. That being the continual case, BCN is offering the latest information on this one named storm, including each post archived here for current and future reference.

    Please use these resources: 1) Current updates from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration); 2) current digital map and projected path of storm(s) - in addition to the mapped information below to know Hurricane Florence's most current course, it's possible impact, and to plan for what become a life changing event - a powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane.

Below: This map of Hurricane Florence suggests the direction, impact point, and estimated time of arrival, as of Wednesday, 091218 at 5:00 pm.

Below: This map of Hurricane Florence suggests the direction, and estimated time of the arrival of the tropical storm force winds within the impacted area, as of Wednesday, 091218 at 5:00 pm.

Below: This map of Hurricane Florence suggests the direction, and probability of the arrival of the tropical storm force winds within the impacted area, as of Wednesday, 091218 at 5:00 pm.