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Tropical Cyclone Report Hurricane Hanna (AL082008) 28 August – 7 September 2008 Daniel P. Brown and Todd Kimberlain National Hurricane Center 17 December 2008 Updated 27 March 2009 to include rainfall total from Camp Perrin, Haiti Hanna was a tropical cyclone that was briefly a hurricane over the Caicos Islands. Hanna also made landfall in the United States as a strong tropical storm near the border between North and South Carolina. Impacts from Hanna were greatest in Haiti, where heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding resulted in a large loss of life. Synoptic History Hanna formed from a tropical wave that entered the eastern Atlantic Ocean on 19 August. Associated shower and thunderstorm activity gradually increased as the wave progressed westward across the Atlantic, and on 26 August the wave spawned an area of low pressure about 475 n mi east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. Additional development continued during the next couple of days, which led to the formation of a tropical depression by 0000 UTC 28 August, about 275 n mi east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. The “best track” chart of the tropical cyclone’s path is given in Fig. 1, with the wind and pressure histories shown in Figs. 2 and 3, respectively. The best track positions and intensities are listed in Table 1. It is estimated that the depression reached tropical storm strength 12 h later, as the overall organization of the system continued to improve. Visible satellite imagery later that day, however, indicated that the center of Hanna was located near the western edge of the deep convection due to westerly shear from an upper-level low to the northwest of the cyclone. Despite the moderate shear, the storm strengthened a little as it moved in a general west-northwestward direction to the south of a subtropical ridge extending over the western Atlantic. While passing a couple hundred miles to the north of Puerto Rico, Hanna moved close enough to the upper-