Tropical Storm Chantel: The Impact On Aviation

    The Tropical depression formed on the afternoon of July 4th, 2025, east of Jacksonville, Florida. Throughout the next day, it developed into Tropical Storm Chantel on the night of July 5th. The storm continued to strengthen and made landfall near Litchfield Beach, South Carolina, at around 4 am on July 6th with winds of 60 mph and a pressure of 1002 millibars. The storm brought along heavy rains, flash flooding, poor visibility, heavy winds, and even a tornado, resulting in over 100 flights canceled or delayed. 

    As previously mentioned, the storm brought many hazards to areas near it, which also resulted in airports not directly in the path of the storm being affected. At 4:27 am a tornado was confirmed to have touched down east of Wilmington International Airport (KILM) in the Kings Grant community and traveled for over a mile, damaging homes.
Weather radar of Tropical Storm Chantel as shown by the National Weather Service

     Due to it being a tropical storm, which draws its energy from warm ocean water, similar to hurricanes, they are warm low-pressure systems, so they do not have any fronts. It may not have had fronts, but instead it brought thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds, and it resulted in tornadoes being formed in North Carolina. The storm impacted airports as far as Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and even O'Hare (ORD) due a large eastern portion of the country many flights were impacted going in and out of many large airports and many smaller airports even reported damage from the storms and flooding due to the heavy rainfall.



References

National Weather Service. (2025, July 9). Tropical Storm Chantal: July 4–6, 2025. https://www.weather.gov/ilm/Chantal2025

Boneham, I. (2025, July 8). Chantal tropical storm: Travel chaos as over 100 flights cancelled with planes grounded at JFK, Dallas Fort Worth and O’Hare Airport. NationalWorld. https://www.nationalworld.com/travel/travel-news/chantal-tropical-storm-travel-chaos-as-over-100-flights-cancelled-with-planes-grounded-5213684






















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