The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image of Hurricane Florence just before noon on September 12, 2018.
<p>At 2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on September 12, the center of the storm was 435 miles (700 kilometers) southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina. The National Hurricane Center and U.S. Air Force reported sustained winds of 125 miles (205 kilometers) per hour, with a central pressure of 948 millibars.
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Hurricane and storm surge warnings were in effect from South Santee River, South Carolina, to Duck, North Carolina. Hurricane and surge watches stretched most of the way from the South Carolina-Georgia border to southeastern Virginia.
NASA Earth Observatory
2018-09-12
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