Supplementary Table 1. Observed land-falling tropical cyclones in the Southeast United States (1979-2000).
Maximum accumulated storm rainfall amounts are obtained from
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/tcrainfall.html
Classification
Maximum
accumulated storm
rainfall (inches)
Storm Name
Dates
David
9/2/1979-9/7/1979 Hurricane
15.45
Frederic
9/9/19799/14/1979
Hurricane
11.0
Dennis
8/15/19818/15/1981
Tropical Storm
25.56
Barry
8/24/19838/26/1983
Hurricane
3.01
Diana
9/9/19849/15/1984
Hurricane
18.98
Isidore
9/26/19849/30/1984
Tropical Storm
8.9
Bob
7/21/19857/27/1985
Hurricane
21.5
Elena
8/28/19859/6/1985
Hurricane
15.67
Isabel
10/10/198510/15/1985
Tropical Storm
3.38
Juan
10/26/198511/3/1985
Hurricane
17.78
Kate
11/19/198511/22/1985
Hurricane
8.32
Charley
8/12/19868/17/1986
Hurricane
8.61
Floyd
10/9/198710/14/1987
Hurricane
10.07
Chris
8/27/19888/30/1988
Tropical Storm
7.64
Florence
9/9/19889/10/1988
Tropical Storm
10.67
Keith
11/22/198811/24/1988
Tropical Storm
10.27
Hugo
9/21/19899/24/1989
Hurricane
10.28
Marco
10/8/199010/14/1990
Tropical Storm
19.89
Ana
6/29/19917/4/1991
Tropical Depression
7.86
Andrew
8/23/19928/27/1992
Hurricane
13.98
Alberto
6/30/19947/8/1994
Tropical Storm
27.85
Beryl
8/13/19948/18/1994
Tropical Storm
17.45
Gordon
11/12/199411/22/1994
Hurricane
16.1
Allison
6/2/1995-6/8/1995 Hurricane
9.1
Erin
8/1/1995-8/7/1995 Hurricane
10.84
Jerry
8/22/19958/29/1995
Tropical Storm
18.51
Opal
10/3/199510/7/1995
Hurricane
19.42
Bertha
7/11/19967/15/1996
Hurricane
9.20
Fran
9/4/1996-9/8/1996 Hurricane
16.0
Josephine
10/4/199610/9/1996
Tropical Storm
8.5
Danny
7/17/19977/22/1997
Hurricane
37.75
Bonnie
8/26/19988/29/1998
Hurricane
14.61
Earl
9/2/1998-9/4/1998 Hurricane
16.36
Georges
10/24/199811/1/1998
Hurricane
38.46
Mitch
10/26/199811/5/1998
Hurricane
11.2
Dennis
8/28/19999/8/1999
Hurricane
19.91
Floyd
9/14/19999/17/1999
Hurricane
24.06
Harvey
9/16/19999/22/1999
Tropical Storm
10.24
Irene
10/12/199910/17/1999
Hurricane
17.45
Gordon
9/13/20009/21/2000
Tropical Storm
9.48
Helene
9/19/20009/24/2000
Tropical Storm
9.60
Leslie
10/2/200010/6/2000
Tropical Storm
17.50