11 Facts About Hurricane Floyd

Hurricane Floyd was a very powerful Cape Verde hurricane which struck the Bahamas and the East Coast of the United States.

Hurricane Floyd was once forecast to strike Florida, but turned away.

Hurricane Floyd produced torrential rainfall in Eastern North Carolina, adding more rain to an area already hit by Hurricane Floyd Dennis just weeks earlier.

On issuing its first advisory, the National Hurricane Floyd Center anticipated that the depression would intensify into a hurricane within three days, a forecast that proved accurate.

The storm had a large circulation, but Hurricane Floyd initially lacked a well-defined inner core, which resulted in only slow strengthening.

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When Hurricane Floyd actually passed by the area, Kennedy Space Center only reported light winds with minor water intrusion.

Around when Floyd first became a hurricane, its outer bands moved over the Lesser Antilles.

Several days, Hurricane Floyd paralleled the east coast of Florida, spurring widespread evacuations.

Hurricane Floyd's rainfall resulted in flooding that killed two people in the state, and caused several creeks and rivers to exceed their banks.

Hurricane Floyd disaster was followed by what many judged to be a very slow federal response.

Strangely the year's shrimp and crab harvests were extremely prosperous; one possible explanation is that runoff from Hurricane Dennis caused marine animals to begin migrating to saltier waters, so they were less vulnerable to Floyd's ill effects.