Hurricane Hugo

Hurricane Hugo originated as a tropical depression near the Cape Verde Islands on September 11 and became a hurricane two days later as is slowly tracked westward across the Atlantic. The course changed to more northwesterly around September 18. A track of the hurricane positlons determined by alrcraft reconna i sance from September 20, 1300 UTC to landfail at 0400 UTC on September 22 is shown in Fig.1. The hurricane intensifled during the final hours before landfa!l and arrived during the time of high tide as a strong Category 4 hurricane to produce widespread devastatlon on the South Carolina coast.