Tropical cyclones (TCs) and their associated heavy precipitation, high winds, and storm surges are both deadly and destructive, leading to losses in the United States that can often exceed $1 billion for an individual event (Cerveny et al., 2017;NOAA, 2021;Yue et al., 2012). The genesis of these extreme events hinges on the co-occurrence of multiple environmental factors, including warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), a moist mid-troposphere, weak vertical wind shear, and an initial precursor or "seed" disturbance (