systems in the same area, the ground saturation, and the terrain.
Rains are heaviest in the six hours before and the six hours after the hurricane reaches landfall. Sometimes a hurricane can last for days and produce floods. These floods can occur more than 100 miles inland. One way to estimate the total inches of rainfall is to divide 100 by the forward speed of the hurricane in miles per hour.
Sometimes the remnants of the hurricane may join with other storm systems causing severe rainfall in states far away from where the hurricane came inland. Hurricane Camille in 1969 came into the Gulf Coast area, but the remnants combined with a cold front in the mountains of Virginia and produced 30 inches of rain. This storm also killed 109 people.
HEAVY RAINFALL is produced by hurricanes. The amount of rainfallusually varies between 6 and 12 inches. The most deadly rainfall occurs inland because a hurricane produces destructive floods. The flooding is the major cause of hurricane-related deaths. The danger from flooding depends on the storm's speed, other weather