Hanna Quickly Moves Onshore With Little Fanfare

Hanna is already east of Raleigh as I write this early Saturday morning, after making landfall at the North Carolina / South Carolina border as a Tropical Storm. Buoy #41013, which I mentioned last night, topped out with waves near 28 feet, but nothing near that was seen onshore. The rain is over at the coast and little damage has been reported.

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The Johnny Mercer Pier (JMPN7) at Wrightsville Beach showed the most impressive wind graph, gusting to 71 mph (sustained at 61), though the Ocean Crest Pier (OCPN7) on Oak Island, just down the road from my beach house, showed similar winds (they don't report gusts) and even more impressive pressure, dipping to 29.17" before the station stopped transmitting at 3 AM, due to power loss or equipment failure. I would have really liked to have seen the wind gusts there after that, because that station was very close to the right front quadrant of the storm at landfall. (Two buoys near the landfall location are no longer in operation due to lack of University funding).